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    Building a cabin on top of a "raised platform" - does that count as part of the height?

    I've got a cabin ready to be built and just need the concrete base doing. Before I book in someone to make the base for me, I just want to check something. Our garden is just over 5m wide, and the cabin will be 4.5m x 3.5m. It'll be under 2.5m in height (closer to 2.3m I think). If it were that...
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    Drilling into RSJ lintel - will it take my bodyweight?

    Hi, I'm installing a fingerboard called a Beastmaker (basically a wooden board you hang from or do pull-ups on) on to what I think is an RSJ-lintel. It's where the house was extended once. The board is to be installed using 6 screws which go in about 3 or 4cm, which come with it and...
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    Reclaimed floorboards or distressed new ones

    3 rooms with pine floorboards: hallway, lounge, kids' room. The hallway and kids' room seem to have original boards (or nice ones anyway), while the boards in the lounge are more recent, and really shoddy (variable widths, someone's cut through a load of them in a line, some split, etc). We want...
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