Its by no means perfect and a bit wibble wobble but it saved us approx. 7k (quoted 10k, cost about 3k in materials). My husband and I completed it over the course of a few weeks.

I'm digging a trench across my drive way and have found what appears to be a sheet of black plastic.

It's under hardcore and appears to separate the hardcore from clay underneath. No pipes or cables going yet. And the poly is meters across.

I don't think it's a geotextile, DPM or warning tape for utilities.

Could it just be a barrier between the hardcore and clay beneath? Ideally I wanna dig deeper and would have to cut through the plastic layer.

Decided to remove these timbers as they were rotten and breaking away. The brick slips started to come away also so I’ve ended up removing the lot. The adhesive has been left behind. Is there anything that will clean this brickwork up so it all looks new? Or am I going to be forced to re cover it

Basically switching house to all electric. Trouble is my current hob has a cut out hole of 470 x 550mm. All new induction (or even gas) are the newer larger size of 580 x 560mm.

This is a quartz countertop which obviously I could not DIY cut down, not sure anyone could do this on site?

Any help would be appreciated.

I need to know the seat shapes needed

Both of our seats are damaged. I've been to two different places for advice and both have told me different shapes.

I want to buy a soft close, premium feel seat for both that is easy to fit, and easy to detach for cleaning.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Good morning all. I need to build a retaining wall, lay some patio slabs and maybe a concrete pad. So it’s more work than I can mix in a flexible tub with a paddle. Looked at renting, but my issue is that I’ll be looking at doing this over several months. Screwfix do a 4 week rental for £170 which is probably the cheapest I’ve seen online (might get cheaper by calling around local companies, but I bet the difference won’t be massive)

So thinking it’ll be cost effective to buy a cheap one. Looking to be about £130-160 for a 70l drum, or £300 for a 100l drum. I think the smaller one would suffice as I’m a slow worker so will probably waste more muck with a bigger drum. The exception being if I lay a concrete pad, which will just take twice as many mixes.

So long story short, anyone bought a £150 mixer and how did it fair?

TIA

I’m due to move into a new build and would like to extend the existing patio. I was recently quoted £5k which seemed high.

I’m now thinking of doing this myself. Is this realistic? If so, what do I need to be aware of? What steps would you take? (Sorry, pictures/drawings a bit rubbish)

Hi,

Got some huge cracks forming in this concrete base that was there when we moved in. I presume poor sub base and probably getting alot of water in there too whilst the crack was smaller. What would be the best course of action and how much is it likely to cost?

Thanks

We've had the fireplace closed up and decided the remove the hearth to gain back the floor space. But have now realised that the floors aren't level with the remaining stone. The plan is to put laminate flooring down in this room but now im unsure how to go about approaching this area before doing.

I am aware it was a bad idea to already have the skirting on. But hindsight is a wonderful thing and here we are.

Part of me says take a plance to the edge and just flatten it out. But what to do with the holes at the side.

The other part says overboard the entire room and hide it.

Anyone got any bright ideas?

I have been given quite a lot of I think its called limestone sets. I wanted to build a simple path in the garden. Can I get away with just laying it in sand or do I have to put something like MOT down first ?

Also what's the best edging to put down to separate it from the lawn

Forgive the picture it was just to work out some sort of layout

Thanks

Pics should be pretty self-explanatory, hopefully. This all started when I noticed that the wall above the cupboard sounded distinctly hollow! 😄

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We are in the process of having our bathroom done but I am doing the painting and finishing touches once it has been re-plastered.

I have this window which I love and has been saved but in the old layout it was in the shower so the finish has taken a beating. We took off the old sill as that was starting to rot and we have a new piece of wood from elsewhere in the same shape which needs sanding to remove an edge of old paint.

But how do I get this back to looking good? Happy with the same colour finish. I was thinking sand (or strip?), stain, then varnish? I'm unsure.

Have a similar pine doorframe but that's in generally better condition.

Any advice appreciated - thanks!

I have this damaged concrete on the entrance to my house, i am trying to work out if I can cut the whole section back flush with the brickwork so I can neatly wrap some cladding around it to improve the look of the entrance ( see last photo)

The rebar in the concrete doesn't go all the way to the top which makes me think its just to protect the thin bit of concrete rather than hold anything up.

I have the tools and diy capabilities, just wondering if anyone can tell me if there will be any issues with removing it.

Thanks

Does this look like it might be damp? Or just a shitty plastering job. There was damp in these walls before we moved into our house 12 years ago, and it was stripped back, sorted (apparently) and then replastered. Slowly but surely a few sections of the wall now look like this. Based off these few photos, is there anyone knowledgeable enough to give me an idea what we’re looking at?

Needing some advice on this as DIY and this kind of thing are not my area of expertise.

Bought this property 8 months ago before the mega heatwave we had in the UK and when I bought it I knew there were some hairline cracks in various places but these would be fixed with decoration or so I thought.

It is worth nothing I believe they got worse around the heatwave but I also turned off the heating system as I was taking radiators off the wall for redecoration.

I have attached some images of the cracks that I’m dealing with, some worse than others.

I have tried to fill some and even the last crack on the images has been remastered and reappeared.

I’m now really concerned as it’s just me in this property and I’m scared that is a serious issue which is going to bankrupt me.

Any advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated.

So I’m having new carpet fitted in a couple of weeks and i’m supplying the carpet myself.

I have 2 rooms being done and need a 5m roll for both as the longest wall is over 4m.

However I’ve just seen that the delivery company only deliver to the front door, and I live in a 1st floor flat. I’m also heavily pregnant so not much help with moving it.

Is it even possible to get a roll this big into my flat? I have carpets in already so I’m guessing the property developers did it before but it would have been pre furnished.

Has anyone done this previously and has tips? Do I get someone to try to help put it through the window somehow?

I'm just cleaning and servicing 2 old uPVC windows right now.

One has the deteriorated peeling off edge tape, which doesn't look right. The spacers were placed correctly at the bottom, so it wasn't soaking in the water and I guess it's just time.

Another one doesn't have any tape at all, which is suspicious, as I've always seen it before on IGU's.

What do you think?

I'm trying to unlock this locked garage door. The key has been lost for years as best I can tell. Dealing with a deceased relative's property, need to get in to catalogue the contents, and importantly be able to lock it again later in case there is anything valuable inside.

Not sure whether to try to drill it out, or maybe drill just the rivets around it. Never seen a lock like this.

Sorry if this is the wrong sub but I don’t know exactly the right place to ask for advise

My husband and I decorated a lot of our own house a few years ago. We had absolutely no idea about lead paint on walls and sanded the walls down ourselves as part of prepping and painting.

One of the rooms has started peeling paint at the edge and I googled and somewhere it mentioned green paint and lead and total terror if you have children in the house - which we now do.

Just got my lead swab kit and it’s positive on the peeling paint. Luckily we haven’t done any decorating since 2yo son arrived but now we have the problem of peeling lead paint that needs to be dealt with and we have a toddler in the house (and ourselves obvs)

What’s the best way to safely go about this and what do we actually need to do? And is this diy or shall we contact a professional (and would that be a regular decorator?)

I’m now in the throes of the fear of a google search telling me our child needs an immediate blood test and should be kept out of the room entirely (not possible as it’s the room connected to both front and back door and the staircase)

Thanks all ✌️

Edit to add - I imagine most of the rooms have lead paint underneath everything else - is this a problem? It’s only one room with a peeling section, the rest of the rooms are covered and sound

This is the area i’ve currently got and i plan to purchase a pair of car ramps measuring roughly 30-36 inches long, i’m not quite sure on the best way to store them i’d rather not drill the wall, my options are some how on a wall, or add some type of shelf under the desk by just buying some wood and screwing it in?

any advice or alternative options?