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Hi, I have purchased an off the shelf French door 2090mm x 1190mm to be fit in place of a window which is around 2000mm wide with the top of the window being around 2200 above the DPC. The house is a mid 70’s build standard cavity wall construction. I want to fit the doors tight to a finished...

Hi, I want to remove a chimney breast (cb) from the rear bedroom of my old Lancashire (Chorley) mid-terrace house, however I am happy to retain the cb downstairs in the back room. The cb seems only to feed my home and is not shared with the grumpy neighbours. Ideally I would like the stack...

Hi, Thanks to all for previous help and advice. Latest conservatory concern is that having built an exterior wall and an interior cavity wall up to ground level I am about to infill up to ground level with hardcore to allow the concrete floor to be poured. My concern is that I have not...

Hi, Im building a conservatory, footings and brick work done up to floor level, (yet to in-fill with hard core) however I have 2 air vents which may or maynot require moving. The 1st airvent is directly in line with the dwarf wall which I have built over, I did this because the property...

Hi Guys, Any clarification would be very much appreciated. Having dug footings for a conservatory the soil being heavy with clay to a depth of 90cm and to a width of 60cm I am ready to order the concrete which I am going to specify to a depth of 25cm on which to build the dwarf wall...

Hi, Could anyone please advice? I am at the moment digging the footings for a 4x3m conservatory which I am building for my mum and dad. I was going to dig 3ft down on top of which I was going to put 10” concrete (reinforced?) as I thought the norm however having dug just 2ft down I am already...