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Hello Having built the groundworks for my extension myself, I handed over to a bricklayer to get the external skin up to wall plate. He is now at wall plate level on one side of the pitched roof, and he has installed the wall plate. However, he has unexpectedly not put a mortar bed under...

Hello I'm just getting some pricing for roof trusses to put on my extension. I've received a quote that I'm largely happy with, except that I could use some pointers on how the new roof will be tied to the existing. The roof direction on the extension is at 90 degrees to the existing, and...

Advice on digging extension foundations needed, please! Sorry for the long post but I wanted to try to be clear. I'm building a 2-story extension to the side of my house, as shown in the plans below. The extension is marked "dining room". Note how the end of the extension near the living room...

Hi I'm going to take out a wall between my kitchen and dining room as shown in the image below. It is currently supporting the joists for the first floor (which run from left to right across the drawing), but no upstairs wall. A few questions though, if anyone can advise, please...

Hi I'm going to re-model my kitchen and build an extension, which will involve splitting the existing kitchen into two rooms and building a new downstairs cloakroom. Where I want to make the split is in the middle of an existing large window in the kitchen. I'll want to replace this with...