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    What is holding these bricks up?

    The recent wind ripped off the trim to one of our windows and revealed a 15mm gap between the top of the window frame and the soldier course above. This is a 1960s house with cavity. Sticking a ruler in shows the gap goes to the back of the brick and hits what I assume is a poured concrete...
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    Extension Price Sanity Check

    I think our designer is just putting us in touch, not managing it, maybe he gets a finder's fee (which of course I will end up paying) I really don't know. However it doesn't matter as the builders aren't communicating. I'm a big fan of DIY, I can drive a digger, got the electrics city and...
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    Extension Price Sanity Check

    We’ve been told by our designer £2k per sq meter, East Midlands. We did get a single quote out of the five outfits we had round and he was closer to £3k m2.
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    Swapping a conservatory

    This was during lock-down, and I put it on the back burner for a bit too long as when I went back to him to get it sorted he had gone out of business, set up again as another ltd company, and behaved as if he'd never met me. So I thought sod this, I've paid for the plans and put a full...
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    Swapping a conservatory

    We're in process of replacing a conservatory (which had planning permission) with a proper extension, and our application for prior consent was knocked back as it touched a piece of the house which had been also been extended. Some 50% rule, quite surprised us really as we were not extending...
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    Cavity wall insulation requirements

    Hi, We're looking at an extension and want to keep the walls as thin as possible. Why use expensive stuff (unilin is 0.021W/mK) when it is hardly any better than bog standard PIR (0.022W/mK)? Is using standard PIR with a 10mm gap a real challenge to build with? Cheers
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