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    Advice needed before I start - Surface Drainage causing penetrating damp !!

    Hi guys and gals, we moved in to a refurbished pub (Ground floor, 1 of 2, 3 others above) in Jan 2015 and in November 2015 had a bloom of clean fresh water in the middle of the flat. Which is pretty much the middle of the building. Now the floor is suspended over the cellar and it is not...
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    Soil pipe headache ! - Surely this is easy to do ....

    Hi guys, I removed my cast soil pipe and I have a nice old clay pipe in the floor downstairs ready to take some new plastic pipes. I can come under then suspended floor at a suitable slope to where I want the new pipe to go up the wall. I have a branch in mind for the downstairs toilet which...
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    To Corbel or not to Corbel (reducing the footprint of a pillar)

    So my house project is coming on nicely and the kitchen now has a beam across the width of it allowing us to knock through in to the extension however, I have two brick pillars now in the way that are on the picture left and right of the house and go from foundations up to roof height. They...
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    Match my new extension to next doors roof tiles

    Hi guys and girls, I have had a front lean to extension built and I am about to put up the wall plate etc and get some roof structure up. I am trying to tie in to next doors roof so is there a rule of thumb to observe when matching across to make sure the tiles are the same height etc and...
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    Converting rear of garage to window and door.... UPVC solution??

    HI guys and gals, I have a standard square opening to my garage, 2400 ish square. It was panelled with horrible wood and plastic so that has gone and now we need a solution as it is open. Brick construction and concrete slab floor so ideally want a bolt in one piece kit ideally. Surely...
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    Propping up brick columns to make way for steel beam??

    Would anyone know what type of steel etc I would need to support the columns at either side of my house when I put in the red marked one for my extension? I am removing the front wall to make a single storey extension and dont want the columns in the house getting in the way. On the ground...
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