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Hey guys, I'm replacing kitchen tap and the earth bonding wires are connected to the tap tails which will be replaced with the flexi hose of the new tap, so what should I now connect the bonding wires to as all the remaining pipes are plastic? I've attached a pic of what im talking about. From...

Hey guys, I'm planning to attach a living wall structure to an existing brick wall and would like to check that I'm not overlooking anything. I've attached a rough diagram of what I'm thinking. the wall is structurally sound, double skin, 1.4m high, 10m long. The living wall will be made of...

About a year ago I replaced my garage roof with a new flat roof. As far as I know I used the correct timbers for the 3.6m unsupported span - 45x175mm on 400mm centres with 1 row of noggins. The static load is about 0.25kn per sqm. I’ve just finished plaster boarding and noticed a pronounced bow...

Hi guys, just looking to double check my deck subframe, I’m planning to put a hot tub on it. Image attached. The whole thing is constructed from 50x150mm treated timber and about 100mm off the ground. The red lines are the bearers 50mm x 150mm timbers spaced 1.6m apart resting on uprights...

I'm sure this has been posted but after searching through all the archives i'm still a little unsure. I'm building a ground level deck 3x6m in a yard surrounded by 4 brick walls, the ground is currently just mud and clay soil under that. I'm just a little unsure of the footings, mainly because...

So I have an existing stand alone garage of cavity brick construction that needs a new roof and roof joists, currently the brickwork is about 1900mm high and as I'm putting a new roof on, i'd like to raise the overall height to 2500mm (it's on a boundary). My plan is to build a stud wall about...

My internal garage brick walls get saturated with condensation, hoping you guys can shed some light as to why and how to stop it. The walls a double skin with cavity. Roof is ply with felt top. Where the roof extends out past the walls all the way around, there is an gap underneath the roof...

The upstairs wall in our front room moves when I push on it :( I can get it to move about 5mm back and forth. The house is 100 year old, it's a double skinned wall, this is the interior skin of the external wall the cavity is currently open by the window waiting to be plastered. The exterior...

Making some floating shelves and I want to check they will be strong enough and if there are any alterations I should make. Shelves will be 120cm long by 30cm deep, supported on 3 sides by brick work. Planning to use 38x64mm timber frame screwed to the brick and lap jointed to each other...

blue is posts and ledger, red is joists. Just looking to see if there is anything I should change, if it's over engineered etc. Posts are 80x80 every 1.5m and joists I'm planning to use are these...

This is happening on 2 different windows in 2 different walls. 1 wall has just been silicone rendered the other repointed brick with lime mortar. The windows have the cavity open so you can see the inside of the external brick wall from inside the house. The water is coming in on top of stone...

There is a lot of conflicting methods on building a deck so i’m looking for your idea of best practices. I’m laying a deck that is approx 24m2 over 3 levels, each level is 40cm, 30cm and 15cm above ground respectively. Is the deck best going on 100mm x 100mm decking posts/stakes at 1.2m...

What's the best way to build the wall on the right out 20cm so that its inline with the perpendicular wall at the back. I'd like to then hang a door, sealing off the space on the right. you can see the difference with the gap in the floor.

I have a bunch of loose bricks under an upstairs window which I have uploaded pictures of. When taped, a big section of them moves as one, I've outlined this in blue in one of the pictures. Should I remove the bricks and relay them, or just repoint around them?

Hey guys, I've recently knocked all the blown plaster off our chimney breast and discovered a few loose bricks than need re-pointing, just wondering if you can tell from the picture what type of mortar I should use? I'm pretty sure it's lime, but if it is should I use lime or am I ok to use...

I'm making a secret door in a stud wall. There will be skirting board running along the bottom of the wall and I'd like the skirting to be on the bottom of the door too, to make it look more hidden. The door will be opening inwards so the skirting will be pivoting on to itself. Is there any...

I have a 20m2 double skin brick garage with uneven stone paving on clay soil, I'm planning to remove the paving and replace with a flat concrete slab. The concrete will be premixed and poured as there is good access but I was hoping to do the prep and float myself. This is my intended process...

Over xmas we discovered a lot of our suspended ground floor floorboards where rotten in our Victorian house, so we decided to replace them. We couldn't find the same depth of board so the whole floor is now 1cm lower than it was (there is a 1cm gap under the bottom stairs) Our stairs have brick...