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Hey all, Bought myself a nice glass roofed conservatory from ufit. Made to measure DIY install. Cant fault it, eaves beam notched out and wall plate drilled for rafters. Delivered on friday and its flying up, until this point. The wall plate is notched big time at one end (the firring box...

Hope the title fits the problem okay. I have wrote this in detail and everyones ideas/advice is more than welcome. I am doing an extension on a bungalow with a hipped roof, its on the front and so required planning permission. Where the extension meets the existing a window is to be...

I have a concrete sectional garage with metal roof sitting on a concrete slab. Now these panels weigh about 3.5t m3, thernmolites way 600kg m3. Do you think it is at all feasible for me to build a new garage out of thermolites off the existing slab. Now I know none of this is ideal but I...

Hey all, just a quicky about insulated plaster board I know that kooltherm k18 is for machinial fixing and k17 can be dabbed, however what is the actual difference because I am wondering if you can fix it with foam coz that sticks to anything and everything, an I can get k18 with 80mm insu...

hey there. Took this siemens controler of the wall to do some decor. Wrote down what wire go where and geuss wot. Labourer binned them. ive managed to work out what each wire is but dont know where they go. Cable 1 blue - pump and 2 port negative black - 2 port valve live brown -...

Hey all, pull my hair out on this install. Take a look at this ebay item number as its the one I purchase: 120740260340 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120740260340?var=420034895122&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_5067wt_905 Basicly its a very nice frameless shower...

Happy easter, did you get many eggs?? Okay so I goes to do a lead step flashing job where and old extension meets the main wall of a house. It is currently bodged with mortar: //media.diynot.com/38000_37302_33434_85793707_thumb.jpg When I started to remove the mortar I revealed...

Hi all, boiler is doing my box. When i turn a hot tap on there is know hot water, however if i turn 2 to lt more flow through. It fires and we have heat. I have checked cold in filter and that is clean, I can see that the pin is not coming all the way out and activating the microswitch...

Hello everybody Need to reglaze a velux as students have damaged the internal pane. Trouble is I dont want to remove the gubbins to measure the glass as I am concerned this may fail whats left of it and I wont get my sealed unit the same day. My glass supplier has a list of some velux panes...

HI all, this dishwasher is doing my box in. It stopped last night and gave out 10 beeps, now it wont start. You try and start it nothing happens and you open the door, 10 beeps again. Now I assume this is an error code. this machine only has 2 buttons, on/off and program select. When i...

HI All, Student let season!! Got myself a decent little contract doing firedoors. This is know newbie to me however working with old 35mm frames is. The last time I fit 44mm door in a 35mm frame I chiselled the rebate to 44mm, took forever and I wasnt overly happy with the finish...

Hi all, Installed a ct50, 100% as per manu instructions. The valve it feeds is a thermostatic vale which also says is fine for a pump. The head on the shower is a rain head. The pressure aint brill, but its not gonna be with 1.5bar on a rain head. The problem I have is it runs fine but when...

Hey all, I have been told by a very reliable source that when replacing a kitchen, building controls need to be notified. I've been on the net for an hour now and cant find any information that verifies this. Obviously they need to be involved for major electrical or knocking down walls...

Hey all, Need to sort a problem out for a customer. They've got me round to finish there bathroom that the brother had already done most of. Including the plumbing. (see where this is going) The kitchen, bathroom, basin and shower are all mono block taps and nothing but a dribble comes...

Had a job enquiry, some one wants a wall rebuilding on the perimeter of there commercial premises. The wall is seperating the car park from the footpath/road. A car has hit and its moved it off its base. the wall is about 2 meters high and the section to be rebuilt is about 5m long. The client...

Scanned the posts and cant seem to work my dumb question out. All it is is this. I've got to knock through into the extension i've built but all that puzzles me is this: Am i right in assuming you insert your acros and strong boys higher than where the top of the steel will be (otherwise you...

Hello, got a bit of a head scratcher. Currently doing an extension which will have a flat roof which is to join to another flat roof extension. The existing roof was only done a year ago. I know how to lay felt, but how do i go about merging the to felt roofs together, how would i join the felt...

HI, does anyone know if the plate compactors you can buy on the net for a couple of hundred quid are any good. They are the c60 model you can buy on ebay. I want to try instead of spending 600 on a belle, but at the same time i dont want to be wasting my money either. So if anyone can share any...

Hi, i am a young builder new to the game. My first solo job was to build a mammoth extension encorporating steel beams, an 18m steel ridge and some fancy roofing. My customer wished to pay me day rate, to which i cherged £120 per day. The building went up sweet as a nut (trust me its almost the...

HI, been popping in and out of here for a while and have now joined. Great forum! I have a question that in my books and this forum i cant really find much of answer for. I wonder if you can help. I have built an extension on my house and now i want to add 4 radiators. The combi condenser...