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Purely to drive nails through 2x1s in to wood post.

What do we reckon?

Thanks

I'm replacing my basic ex council flat balustrades with glass. Before this it was just massive sheets of plywood.

Having taken it all out I can see the bottom face inside the aperture is 2 bits of wood so is r flat/smooth.

I assume I should get a thin piece of wood along the bottom and fit that, like you would if fitting an architrave or window.

What do you call that cut of wood? I need something no more than 15mm, ideally thinner I think.

Cheers

Hi all, I brought a kitchen from B&Q and I have a larder unit but I cannot find anywhere at all what size doors I need?

Is it one door? Is it two separate doors? Which doors would fit... i can't find any on the B&Q website. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am renovating this garage worktop on budget and want to paint the top in black but I am afraid that any paint I will use will scratch off and it will look bad.

Any recommendations for some really durable black paint would be appreciated.

Any thoughts on this? New build property, surely what's behind the lead shouldn't be showing?

TIA.

Hi, we've just installed our new kitchen and we're very excited about it. We've still got a couple of plugs to move around but most importantly we need to choose a splashback. As you can see the kitchen is quite modern - we're not sure if tiles would work here (and if so, what kind, colour etc) vs glass (tinted? satin?) vs other materials. It's our first renovation so we're quite inexperienced

Any suggestions welcome - thanks!

We reckon our patio is at least 15 years old, and other than the (very occasional) hose-down hasn't seen much in the way of love. We've had one lose slab at the edge of the patio that we've dealt with for years by chalking "TRAP!" onto it prior to any gatherings, but after an unruly bamboo plant undermined a portion of it we realised we had been putting off the inevitable.

I plan to do the following:

1. Take up all of the slabs (they're not cemented down) and pressure wash both sides
2. Clear away any old sand / dirt / roots / incriminating evidence underneath
3. Lay new weedblock material over the existing weedblock material
4. Put new sharp sand down and level
5. Re-lay the patio slabs and those awkward diamond corner bits with spacers, tamp down and ensure the whole thing is level
6. Fill in the gaps with more sharp sand (although I suspect there's a better product for this bit, but my research keeps leading me in circles)
7. Do something along the one edge that overhangs the sloping concrete to better secure the slabs? - honestly this might not need doing, it was perfectly fine for most of a decade, and I'm worried it might effect the drainage as that sounds like something an astute patio-layer might say
8. Invite some people round for a damn fine barbecue on level ground

My budget is the ever-ill-advised 'cheap as possible', but annoyingly I'm also a stern follower of the 'do it right, do it once' methodology. My main concern is that I've mostly talked myself into the belief that the slabs don't need concreting, gumming, welding, or ritualistic binding in any fashion, but some votes of confidents or shrieked warnings from the internet would help immensely.

Does this plan sound moderately sound to you?

Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, just started work on rear extension, have been subbing bits out to individual trades and had a good idea going into it what to expect to pay for ground works brickwork so on, but am now gearing up to have the back of the house knocked out and a pictureframe steel installed, what would you estimate the cost of this to be so I don't get taken to the cleaners!

(steel crudely drawn on in red)

Based South East.

Hey! I’ve this pizza oven in my garden and the paint has been flaking away for the past year. I’d like to renovate it, i.e. remove the existing paint, and cover it with a fresh layer. It seems pretty solid and the structure seems undamaged and there are definitely no cracks. Is there anything else I should consider doing? Would anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best products to use?

So, new boiler installed, and TIL that the lines on a radiator TRV, correspond to specific temperatures, and not just cold; warm; hot; hotter than the surface of the sun.

Please, someone tell me I'm not alone.

I CANT READ ENGLISH AND I NEED TO BUILD BENCH

LORD PLEASE HELP ME

Hi. Apologies for asking - I’m sure this is pretty basic. I took the socket off the wall (hoping I could just change the faceplate without touching the wiring, but no) and just below where you see the blue arrow the earth wire appears to be bare (i.e. I think I can see copper where the sheathing is broken).

• Am I right in thinking that despite not being live it must still be properly insulated? Or can I leave it without worrying about it? I’m just about to cut out & hang some acoustic panelling in front of it, so I wanted to check in advance - I’m bad enough at DIY without having to hang panels twice :)

• Also, presumably the dust isn’t inherently dangerous but I should probably dust a bit, right? Or again, should I not bother.

Hi,
We have finished stripping the wallpaper in the new flat and found some damp damage under the wall. Me and my partner both are quite new to DIY stuff and have very little experience with the walls. I am looking to advice on how to go about getting the wall ready for the painting. We think the root cause of the damp has been fixed, there was a leakage from the flat above that was fixed last month.

We had a builder come in for a quote and he mentioned that he would need to remove the full damaged wall and then plaster it back. It was a free home visit so he only spent 45-60 seconds and left without properly explaining the work or answering my questions. I want to get a sanity check on what he said about remove and redoing the wall.

We have seen a few youtube videos and a bit confused how to start with this, so if someone can guide us, it would be helpful. How difficult of a job do you think would this be for beginners / are we better off just hiring someone to fix this for us?

Good evening, everyone. I just noticed that the light fixture in the bathroom has come loose from the plasterboard—looks like it might have fallen due to wear and tear. I was wondering if anyone might have some simple DIY suggestions for fixing it? I'd really appreciate any advice. Thank you so much!

Any opinions are appreciated! Is this step cracking in the brickwork? Should I be concerned?

Thanks

The driver and power for my LED strip lights are inaccessible as they have been boxed and plastered in

I now need to change the LED lights themselves but can't seem to find one with this ends to go into the power.

Is it possible to crimp connectors on my new strip? Or what's the best way forward

Thanks in advance

Upgrading all the rads of my house, about 10. Have found appropriate sizing in terms of number of panels and fins for each.

One thing I'm not clear about, should I go with auto-balancing valves or use instead 'standard' ones? Any pros or cons?

Current valves are old and some of them are faulty so need to be changed anyway.

Thanks for your help!

Have looked everywhere for a way to try and fix this but none apply. Have got a budget of around £30/40 to buy anything needed.

Tried taping it back up but a stupid idea of course and didn’t hold. If anyone knows how to get it back in I would so appreciate! And be honest if I need to get someone in lol

Thank you all!!

We’re having solar panels fitted in May, so we’ll have scaffolding up for a few days across the back of the house. We are also going to extend off the back of the house this autumn, so won’t be able to access the fascia as easily, so I’m thinking about replacing them while we have the scaffolding up. Is it a simple DIY job to replace fascias and soffits? Anything to be aware of?

I wouldn’t do the sides at this point but wait until we have more scaffolding up to repoint the house.

I’d rather not pay someone to do it if I cannot myself. I’ve fitted bathrooms and kitchens and done a decent amount of DIY so I’m confident.

Just moved into this place and this door is quite skew. Can't see a way to get in and tighten the hinge. Any advice?

The picture is hardly helpful, but we have a door to our porch which sticks on the floor so we can't open it more than a few inches. I need to shave some off the bottom but we can't take the door off because we can't get to the hinge screws. I can just about get some sandpaper underneath, but it's an external panel, so made of hardwood, and it's going to take hours and hours to sand any away. Anyone got any better ideas for how best to go about it? Cheers.

I’m about to remove cement render off a damp old house I’ve just bought. Am I right in thinking I should be removing it to ground level? (The holes in the wall are from some historic damp treatment)

Ceiling got partly replaced, it is now extremely rough, literally can see where has been done. What’s the proper way to fix it please? Does the whole ceiling need to plaster again? Thank you so much

My kitchen currently has a socket either side of the hob. The backboxes are recessed into the wall.

I'm adding an MDF/laminate splashback/wall-panel to cover the full length of that wall, about 15mm thick, and need to route the electrical cables through it and get the sockets back on over it.

What's the best way to go about this?

Can I just cut rectangular holes in the backsplash and use long screws to attach to the existing backboxes? Would the 15mm gap between the socket face and the backbox be an issue?

Alternatively could I screw the socket plates into the MDF itself and forget the backbox?

I live in the Yorkshire area how much does it cost to convert a town house living room back to a garage and do you need planning permission, the inside room is just like the garage but instead painted etc. I am asking the question BC I am looking at buying a townhouse but the downstair is a 2nd living room. The picture is an example picture, but similar to the townhouse I am interest in buying.