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Hi Guys I am building a garden room in timber and wanted to ask what size timbers I need to use for the roof. The span it will need to cross is 4 metres, the actual size is 4m x 7m, the monopitch of the roof will be 4 degrees. Will using smaller spacing mean I can use slightly smaller sizes or...

Hi Guys I am laying a concrete slab in garden for a timber outbuilding the dimensions of the slab are to be 7 metres x 4 metres. my understanding is that I need to have a depth of hardcore then DPM then wire mesh and then concrete. My question is how deep should the hardcore layer be and how...

Hi Guys I would like to have the spindles on my staircase dipped but before removing I wondered is there a good way of marking the spindles so that I know which one goes where as I expect they will all be a little different. Thanks

Hi guys I have been working a room in my house which and I need to replace the existing wooden floorboards to replace with ply for tiling. I removed skirtings and small area of plaster and found that the existing stud wall has no floor plate and that the upright sit on top of the floorboards...

Hi there I wondered what I should do with the meter head (at leaset i think its called the meter head could be wrong) I have attached some photos of it it is very old looking and it appears to have some black substance leaking out of it or has had in the past. what ever has leaked looks like...

Hi all I had some upvc sliding sash windows installed a few years back and the opening mechanisms on most of them have failed and as such the top sections fall down and the bottom sections wont stay open. I have had several different window repair engineers out but unfortunately none have...

Hi all I am about to convert my home into 3 flats It currently has 1 25mm supply pipe to the property. Will i need to have 2 extra supply pipes installed, or will it be sufficient to replace the existing supply with a 32mm pipe and then split this pipe 3 ways? Would using 1 pipe give each...