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Hi all, Hope you experts out there can help me with a little bit of advice? I have a downstairs loo room, next to my kitchen where the boiler is positioned on the wall next to the loo room. I want to add a small towel radiator in this room as it does get a bit chilly in there and am...

Hi all, I came across a local plasterer who said he would render my extension for what seemed a pretty good price. Should have seen it coming really, the quality was pretty poor. I thought some paint would make it look better, but actually made it look worse! So I have some walls which...

Hi all, Back again for some more friendly advice please. People moved in next door with two Rottweiler's and they soon smashed through my fence. Rather than just replace it with like-for-like but new, which I'm sure wont last too long, thought a concrete block wall would be better. My...

Hi Everyone, Done some searching in the archives and not much in there, so wondering if there is much information on this method. I've recently heard about these and have done a little bit of digging to find out more, so am wondering if people on here have experience of these or where to...

Hi All, Want to put a small porch on my house and have checked the sizes required without needing planning permission - 3 square metre size, measured externally - 3 metres high max As I want to put on a pitched tiled roof and in doing so have a soffit overhang of 100mm or so, is this...

My incoming water pipe comes up into what will now be a downstairs loo and it is water barrel. The first joint though is too high for the sing unit I will put in place, so I need to cut and join the pipe. Is it possible to do this while the pipe is in place and pretty tight against a wall...

Hi All, My main 4" soil stack is outside the house and vented. I'm putting in a downstairs loo which will connect into the stack lower down into a multi connection chamber. Would I therefore need to put an air admittance valve in the downstairs toilet room. Ideally I dont want to do this...

I'm sure I've read on here, that a front porch can be built without planning permission or building regulations if the following apply: - no larger than 3 m square in size - No higher than 3m - Front house security door to remain Anyone able to confirm this? If so, I can design...

Hi, Next weekend I'll be fitting my 4.5 metre Bi-fold doors and although fitting the bottom and sides is pretty standard, any thoughts on fitting the top? Just thinking that it's a long span for just expanding foam to 'grab' it and was wondering if there is a better fix. Thought about...

Hi all, How do you guage how far apart these should go to give the right lighting for a kitchen? Is there a way to work this out depending on the wattage? I've seen 11 watt Halogen lamps, right up to 50 watt lamps. Aiming to put a 'row' of lights so they light up the worktops and...

Hi, Currently doing first fix electrics on my extension and looking ahread to wall plastering. I was intending to have the blocks rendered and then plastered, but a fried said why dont I platerboard the walls dot and dab style and save on some labour costs. As I've build everything so far...

Yesterday I put up the flat roof timbers/joists up on my single storey extension. These were sat on the internal wall plate and on the house wall they were sat on the lintel via joist hangers or on a timber wall plate using jiffys. The outside timbers though I havent fixed in place yet and...

Tomorrow I'm fitting lintels into my existing house outer and inner walls, ready to knock through into the extension I'm building. My drawings recomend flat roof joists of 175mm x 63mm in size, but 63mm isnt a standard size not are 63mm joist hangers made (not jiffys). Therefore I'm going...

Looking for recomendations for these please. Ones I've seen and used seem to have these tiny very expensive lamps in them which dont seems to last very long. Any thought on some low wattage units please - thanks

Any recomendations for what ti install? I used some small blue ones run from a little transformer on a previous kitchen, switched with the under cupboard lights, all that was needed most of the time. Just wondering what there is on the market at the moment.

Hi, Planning ahead for the roof of my extension and wanted some advice. The roof joists (175mm x 63mm) will fix to the back wall of my house on joist hangers and then the other end will fit to the front wall of my extension. On the front wall I know I need to fit a 4" x 2" wooden wall...

Me again with another question In constructing a new sewer chamber outside of the extension area, the old sewer chamber has to be removed. Taking down the bricks is easy enough, but I have to replaced the 1/2 sewer with a new piece of VC 6" sewer. The sewer is obviously live, although...

Is there any easy way to calculate the required lighting in a room? Probably using 'some' downlighters or similar in an extension I'm building, which will be linked to an existing room making an 'L' shaped kitchen/diner/lounge. This room will have 4.5 metres of bi-fold doors along one wall...

When I get to putting the extension flat roof together, it will have 140mm Celotex onto of the timbers/firrings, the 18mm OSB board and I was wondering if the are decent screws on the market say 170mm long to hold this lot together? Longest I can find at screwfix are 160mm and these are £45...

Checking the Screwfix catalogue and see there are two types of ready made sewer chambers, the 450mm size and 270mm size. I need a new chamber for my house, where a 4" pipe will join into the sewer leading to the public sewer chamber. Also a rainwater down pipe will need to join in to the...