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    Engineered flooring (compared with laminate and solid)

    I need to floor a new dining room (over concrete/screed). We used laminate in the old one about 10 years ago, it looks OK but for some reason the room looks "cold" and walking around in the room sounds a bit like - mmm - walking on laminate! Some of the new laminates have a texture so they look...
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    Requirements for FD30 fire doors?

    I've just had a door installed between the house and the garage, the frame is a standard casing with 25mm stops BUT NO INTUMESCENT STRIPS - is this correct?
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    Making access holes in T&G Chipboard flooring?

    When I embark on the plumbing I'll need to get access to existing pipework under the T&G chipboard flooring. In the past I've drilled off the nail heads and then carefully sawn through (using a circular saw) over the joist centres but it's always left a "squeaky" area of the floor - there must...
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    Worcester Greenstar Boiler and DPS Heatbank

    I'm replacing the boiler and moving the cylinder and am very tempted to use a DPS GXV vented directly-heated heat bank with a Worcester Greenstar 29HE boiler. This would have a zone (maybe 2) for heating and a zone for towel rails and airing cupboard, each zone having its own pump. DHW would...
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    Is it worth zoning heating into upstairs/downstairs?

    I've got the opportunity to split the single heating circuit into upstairs and downstairs zones, 'any views on whether it's worth doing it? DaveS
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    Moving CU and connecting an additional one

    As part of some house extension work I want to move the main CU from the garage to a new room (part of the extension) and add a garage CU. The gge CU will be feeding a 3kW rotary 3 phase converter (from class D MCB) and a 2kW 3 phase inverter in addition to the ring and lighting. Questions...
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