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Not fitted windows before, but have some to do in the next few weeks. These are aluminium windows going in a mix of lead covered dormer and cedral clad wooden framing. In my head I was going to use silicone around the opening as the windows go in for the frame face to but up to, then get up...

I'm converting my loft to create a couple of extra rooms and about to start thinking about plumbing in some central heating. I currently have a combi boiler whose outlet/inlet splits for ground floor and first floor, but isn't zoned. I am planning to splitt three ways at the boiler to take the...

Loft conversion, with insulated stud walls on all sides, would you run wires under the floor boards, or keep them all in the stud walls? The new circuits enter under the eaves, so either works I think. I don't have an electrician sorted yet to check, but I could start fixing the floorboards...

After a few pointers, I'm building a large dormer as part of a loft conversion, it's slate roof and lead front and sides. My house is Victorian and has all of the windows fitted from the inside behind the outer course of bricks. Ie the window frames are wider than the openings and but up...

Daft question; I have a Tado central heating system and a Robot Vacuum cleaner. I can use some home automation services to set the Vacuum running if the heating goes into Away Mode on weekdays between 6am and 10am. Ie if we're all out at work, run the vacuum. I can also use the same trigger...

I've been working through upgrading Firmware and setting up a SmartCom module for my Premier Elite 48 Panel and could do with a hand! I followed the instructions exactly and got as far as turning on SmartCom at the Keypad and it trying to dial for a 6 digit code so I can start connecting things...

I'm building up the framework for a dormer shortly and could do with some input into how the structure is usually built up for a lead covering for the face and cheeks. I have a target width to build to, so I can't just build the frame and let my roofer sort out the details, I need to take...

As I understand it, because I'm achieving 30 mins fire protection via the existing ceiling rather than any structure reliant on the new steel beams for their integrity I don't need intumescent paint. Having just carried 450kg of unpainted steel into the loft this morning, I'm wondering whether...

Might be a daft question, but I'll ask it anyway as Google isn't really coming up with anything. I have the soil stack on the end of my house, later this year we'll be going up another story, adding a new bathroom above and adding external insulation so that the existing solid-brick...

I'm about tot start building the new floor in a loft conversion that I'm working through this year. I'm looking at options for UFH at the moment as I don't want to buy/fit anything that causes problems if I go that route wit the heating. I've tried my best Google skills, but it's a bit of a...

I’m wiring a Texecom Premier Elite 48 at the moment. I have 10 Texecom Exodus 4W smoke detectors that I am setting up to use the 2-wire Smoke dedicated smoke connection on the panel. I’ve struggled matching up the instructions supplied with the Smokes with the instructions supplied with the...