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I'd wait for a dry period where you know the soakaway should have some capacity and try rodding the pipe. Lay the rods out on top of the ground to start with so you know how far you need to push them in. See if it clears?

Check eBay for realistic underlay prices and take a few eBay advert printouts in to the shop to get a decent level of discount.

Ive had my 25sqm engineered oak wood floor in my new extension for about 4 months now. when i poured the concrete slab floor we left about 50mm to allow 1 inch battens beneath the oak floor. This means we have an air gap and a nice feel underfoot with the smallest amount of give. Might not...

New build extension nearly finished. Need to insulate the newly built loft space. It's a traditional tiled pitched roof, nice storage space and possible train set play space for my young son. It was a hand built roof with 5 x2 inch rafters making the loft floor and also the sloping rafters...

Thanks or your replies guys. (I assume you're both men :D ) My thoughts on the matter are that the planks are indeed less thick than chipboard but will be in full contact at all times with the underlay and then insulation, giving a much more uniform support than chipboard suspended over...

Thanks pinenot, it is indeed a similar question but not identical. Let me just ask the one i really want an answer to. Can I lay a floating engineered wooden floor (not chipboard) onto a layer of celotex (or similar) floor insulation? click lock plank sizes 125mm wide, 1200mm long and...

Ive got to make up about 50mm height in total. I'd like to install a floating engineered wooden floor with click lock plank sizes 125mm wide, 1200mm long and 10.5mm thick. The concrete slab floor has only just been laid (6 weeks ago) and it already has quite a bit of insulation (100mm if...

Stud wall it is. Materials delivered and M10 sheild anchors purchased. I'm sure it will be fine, i'm just a stress head! Thanks. Jono

Hi All We're having a house extension built right now and we have an internal porch to step into from outside, then you have the main front door in the middle of the 3m wide porch area. The plans show for a 300mm wide block and block cavity wall but as it isn't load bearing we have the...