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    Building regs re: Siting of a WC

    Some years ago, I remember there was a building regulation that prevented having a WC entrance directly into a habitable room (kitchen, lounge etc.). So I had to have the WC opening into a ventilated hallway. Can someone please tell me what the current restrictions are, as I think they have...
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    Advertising your services

    For those of you who do this for a living, and have had to advertise to get work, what works best for you? I keep hearing that there is a severe shortage of 'builders' yet a friend put out about 200 flyers through doors, with only 1 response! Also put a couple of shop ads in with no luck.
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    Laying paving stones

    I have recently laid a paving stones in a garden, bedded on about 2in sand. I filled in the gaps with dry mix, about 1 cement to 4 soft sand, then carefully watered in with a fine sprinkler. After a few days, the mortar infill has all broken up, and is now useless. I have used this method...
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    Noisy banging in CH boiler

    I have just found this forum. Great idea, hope it works! I have a Baxi Bermuda gas fired back boiler. This has been noisy ever since I can remember. After the boiler has been running for some time, as the water gets hotter, it bangs, or knocks, about once evry second or so, until the...
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    Connection of shower drainage to WC

    I want to fit a shower into a ground floor WC as a wet room. I want the floor to drain into the WC as there is no other drainage nearby. I know that I will need a trap, but it will have to go below ground level, and connect into the WC. The floor is concrete. Is this legal, adisable and possible?
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