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We lived in our shed for three years, fully approved kitchen, bathroom and laundry and were very comfortable. We now use it for a boys room and my wifes craft room plus my workshop. Had the mortgage down and then we thought we should build a house. 18 months later owner building we had a big...

We regularly lose power for days at a time so we have a proffesionally installed cutover switch between mains and generator at the switch board. generator feeds the house and nothing back to the mains. When the power goes out, start the generator and flip the switch and back in business. 6kv...

Hi again I spent some time on the drive jack hammering up the high spots and scraping with the tractor bucket and levelling bar and now have something I can live with for now. cheers for the replies.

Good point Burl. It is summer here now, today was relatively cool and a sprinkle of rain to help. Might try the jack hammer on the big lumps and roll it. I have another truck load off road base due tomorrow, see if it flattens it out a bit too.

Hi all I was given about 30 tonnes of hot mix bitumen.(cold but still workable) I have spread it out at about 4" thick with my tractor bucket but it is not very even. I have been told to spray it with diesel and try rolling it. My other idea was to jack hammer the high spots and try and...

She has bigger things to worry about than a clock if she owns a vw jetta

Does it change if it is attatched to the house somehow,just an oversize garage?

i used a slab but raised the shower about a foot and put all the plumbing through the wall

I am an expert at all sorts of stained concrete, sump oil paint , tiling glue- not really a suitable finish for a living area

I was moving my lathe using machinery skates when I decided to just give it one more push to square it up to the wall when I tipped it it pinning me to the wall by one finger with my foot against the skate to stop it going on its back. called out for a while then decided I would just have to...

standing on a plank 10' up holding a 15' sheet of plasterboard that I had just lifted in place off the lift into place when it slipped off I thought maybe I should have waited for a hand. The weight and momentum nearly knocked me off the plank

4" grinder and a hammer

I had a dropped floor with same roofline as the rest of the shed for a boat that was 10' high to the top of the canopy. Boats gone now but it worked well, just back it in, no pulling anything off. The hill sloped down from the doors and made it easy to do with a little retaining wall to keep...

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