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Planning to fit LVT in two loft conversion rooms - approx 40 sqm. I already have the Karndean feather finish, and 6mm ply sheets. I want to sounds insulate mainly against impact noise. What product should I use (I also ideally want to use up the ply sheets I've already bought)?

My old man is having his kitchen redone and his cooker is electric at the moment. The builders/electrician tag team we were looking to employ say they can fit a new gas pipe for the new cooker and and that no certification is required. Does this sound right?

I need to replace some tiles but the plasterboard is damaged and has broken away due to a leak. How can I patch up this area (there's no access to the rear)? You can see some wood behind but this moves around freely.

I turned the thermostatic valves off on two heaters in unused bedrooms. They've been off for a long while, over a year. I've turned the valves back on but the heaters don't get hot. I've tried bleeding them. Both pipes going into the rads are cold. It's a Megaflow system. Here's a pick...

I've just gone into the garage and noticed the 12.5mm plasterboard I've been fitting these past few weeks are sagging in between the joists. The joists are 600mm centres. I've screwed at 400mm spaces. Why has this happened?

Hello, I'm in the process of insulating and boarding the garage ceiling with foil backed plasterboard. I've started at one corner and fitted the first line square to the joists. As the side wall is not square to the joists there is an increasingly sized gap approx 10cm over the 5.2m length...

I'm installing new roller shutter garage doors and this long thin perforated metal strap will be in the way of the back box. What's is its function?

Hi, I want to add more power sockets to the garage which I use as a workshop. It's detached and about 20m from the house. Here's the relevent part of the CU in the house: And here's the CU in the garage: Unfortunately I didn't measure the cable thickness from the house to the...

I have a pitched roof double garage with roof truss timber size of 70 x 35mm only. They span 5.4m across the ceiling using metal connector plates for joins. I would like to plasterboard the ceiling, insulate with Kingspan or similar in the 70mm gap and board the top for storage. I won't...