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What do you have todo to become Part P certified, and how much does it cost? Cheers Jim

I'm just coming to to the final stages of building my new workshop. It is detached from my house. I am looking for someone to sign of my electrics for me and give me the required paperwork needed to keep the buildings inspector happy. What kind of price would I be looking to pay for someone...

I want to run a cable underground to my garage which is detached from my house. Do I HAVE to use armored cable, or can I use any cable as long as it's large enough and is in trunking or simular?

A quick question for you, what is the maxium current a 16mm2 cable can safely manage? Thanks Jim

Hi There, I'm not sure what section to put this in, so sorry if it's in the wrong section. I am currently in the process of building a large domestic garage / workshop. There is nowhere really practical to drain the rain water too, (without having a massive soak away in the middle of my...

I am currently in the process of building a large domestic garage / workshop. I have hardcore down, and I now need to cover the hardcore, with chippings or scalpings, before covering with sand, DPC, insulation and then concrete. What should I use Scalpings or chippings?

I am currently in the process of building a large domestic garage / workshop. I was going to have the floor powerfloated, but I have since heard that if I have this done, I will have problems painting the floor. With this in mind, what is the best way of finishing the floor surface. Cheers...

Please could someone tell me approx how many cubic meters will 1 ton of chippings be?? Thanks Jim

I have been looking for a brick layer to lay the concrete blocks for my single story single skin detached garage. I have been given the price of £1 per block, (Labour only). Is this the going rate? I am in south wales. Cheers Jim MOD please see item 9

I am starting to build a garage / workshop at the side of my house. I have had my planning permision aproved, so it's all go now. I'm now at the first stage the footings. These are now around 90% dug out. I have come accross a few pipes when digging the footings, some going to soak away, some...

Can anyone give me some pointers on how I go about working out how many tiles I need to tile my garage roof??

Hello, I'm currently building a summer house in my garden (known buy the neighbours as Jim's Pub!) I plan to have a pitched roof. I have many rosemary roofing tiles spare, so I was thinking of using those on the roof. I have done a bit of roofing in the past, but I am not sure about how to stop...

I have a ferroli f30 combi boiler, I have 27mb of pressure at my meter, and the same at my boiler, but the working pressure at my boiler drops to around 17mb. Sometimes my boiler has problems lighting, and it keep going out, 1 second after lighting, I'm guessing this is because of the low...

I should say I'm not a plumber, I added a rad into my friends house for him, (he has a modern combi boiler) as the rad I was adding to his downstairs loo was only small (around 500mm wide) I took the feed for the rad off another rad in the next room. As the pipes where 15mm I thought there...

I'm shorlty starting to build the below garage / workshop in my garden. It's 30ft deep and 30ft wide (at it's rear). I've allready been given planning permision for it, but I told them it was going to be single skin. I was adviced buy a few people that I should do it double skin, they told me...

I'm looking to buy a mitre saw, but I'm torn between two The first is a non sliding bed with a blade of 255mm and the second is a sliding bed with a blade size of 210mm. Which should I go for?

I'm going to start building my garage in a few months, but I'm trying to keep the cost down to a minimum. The garage is large triangle shape 30" wide at rear, 14" wide at fron and 30" deep. The garage will have a pitched roof. The garage is at the side of my house and on the boundary wall so...

I'm about to start building a new garage / workshop in a few weeks. The garage is only going to be single skin, mainly because of space and money. The garage is going to have a pitched tiled roof and be built with concrete blocks then rendered. What could I do to insulate the garage. I was...

Hello, I have a few thermostatic radiator valves on my central heating system (Combi Boiler) which will not stop making the pipes bang unless I turn them on full. What is causing them todo this? The valves are branded as Wickes own, it this the problem are they rubbish? I have bled all the air...