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I'm planning on building a single brick wide wall between us and the neighbour between our driveways. The wall will be roughly 10 metres long and about 9 courses high with a soldier course on the top. There will be a 2 x brick square pillars at each end about 20 courses high. How many support...

As it says. I've found multitool blades are virtually useless. Was removing 7" skirting and only managed about 4 cuts. Even when using brand blades.

I'm installing a new L-shaped kitchen and want to include LED strip lighting under cabinets, over the top and hopefully at kick board level if I can make a way that they are not vulnerable to damage. The lengths are; top of cabinets approx 7 metres, under cabinets is approx. 5 metres and the...

Just getting things ready for the plasterers to come in and plaster the room around the steel A frame forming the gable end. The drawings state a double layer of plasterboard but is that enough to prevent cold faces all around the gable end window? I've already glued in wood noggins in the...

At the rear of my property there was originally a small loggia protruding about 1.5 metres and is a 9" solid brick wall built across the boundary. The same style of loggia was also on the adjoining property. Some time in the distant past the neighbouring owners built a further wall coming off...

I'm laying a new floor in my utility including new floor joists. The intention is to put tile backers on the chipboard before laying ceramic tiles. Sound I seal the new chipboard with a water resistant finish like water seal or varnish or will the adhesive used to lay the backers on be...

I'm having a rear extension built which has a large void underneath due to the sloping site. We're now at the first fit plumbing and electrics stage and as I've made access to the under void I would like them to put all the piping and wiring (apart from lighting) underneath and then come up...

Having a single storey extension built which has two bifolds along the wall facing the garden. The small one can be covered with a standard thermal break catnic but the larger doors have box sectin steel columns and an RSJ over the top. The structure sits on the inner cavity and a plate is...

Can anyone confirm what is the outside dimension of a 78cm x 98cm Velux. I've hunted high and low on Google including the Velux installation guide and all they say is the roof aperture needs to 40mm to 50mm wider than the window.

We're having a 3.6M wide bi-fold door in our rear extension but there are so many suppliers so which are the best? Also aluminium or uPVC.

I'm looking to project manage my single storey extension and use several subcontractors. Do I have any H&S responsibilities for the contractors or do they have their own? If I do have responsibilities what do I have to do?

Can anyone give me an idea of the cost implication for changing from wet rads to wet ufh on a new build? I would assume that the oversite concrete and the 100mm celotex insulation would be the same, it's just that ufh pipes are laid before the floor screed is applied. Obviously there would be...

My house has 14 rads from the 70's and 80's and I've noticed the heat up time is around an hour to full working temperature, I guess due to the volume of water in the system. Boiler size is a combi 36k btu. Do new high efficiency rads contain less water if so by how much?

I have a three story detached house which has 16 radiators. Currently we use the Digistat on manual control. The bottom floor is open plan from the diner thro to lounge then sun room and around to the kitchen. There are 5 radiators covering this area, two large ones in the lounge/dining area...

I need a 4 angled rad for both the downstairs and upstairs bay windows, preferably doubles. I've done Google and there are quite a few suppliers but would like some recommendations as to the quality of work especially the welding and whether they are leak tested before sending.

I have a 35kW combi boiler. Can I assume that is the input energy so if I divide by 10.55kW per cubic metre of gas that equals 3.3 cubic metres of gas per hour. Am i correct?

Have been thinking about smart control for a couple of years now but with 16 radiators the cost is fairly considerable. One question I have about the system is; if just one of the TRV's is calling for heat is this going to be very inefficient, especially if the boiler is cold.

I've just finished tiling a small upstairs loo. Yesterday I heard a bang and one of my first tiles I fitted had fallen off. When looking at it as it was in a difficult location under the soil pipe it was not fully bedded. I then buttered the wall with a little skim of adhesive and then put a...

I don't know if anyone else experienced it, but yesterday our house suffered from a huge amount of condensation. The north facing double glazed windows were running even the uPVC frames and the wood frames were covered and the walls and ceiling in our en-suite was dripping even though the...

I'm completing refurbishing our upstairs toilet. I've laid Karndean composite click flooring and about to fit the toilet back in but wondering what to set the pan on if anything. The WC is a close couple back to the wall unit and when I push the pan in and against the wall and there is a gap to...