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I have recently bought a house with a detached single garage about 22' x 11'. The garage is brick built and has a cedar shingles roof. Ivy and other plants have been allowed to grow over and through the roof so it is now in a sorry state. It is no longer watertight and has several holes in it...

I'm just in the process of having my loft converted. I understand that I need to have FD20 doors for all of the doors on the escape route. unfortunately that will be 9 plus the two new ones in the loft. The existing doors are original 1910/1920s wooden four panelled doors. The doors...

The way I read the regs for planning the council can't specify a maximum size, as long as you don't exceed half of the garden and stay away from the boundaries. However if you go over 30 sq. metres you will need building regs

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I knew as soon as I'd typed my question in that it was a bad idea, but I thought it was worth asking just in case. So it'll have to be back to the drawing board.

I would like to install a Home Automation system, (CBUS) but will need to run Cat5 to the light switches. Most of this will be a retrofit, and I really don't want to have to redecorate. So I was wondering has anyone pulled cat 5 through existing mains cable. I'm guessing this is not...

Can anyone help me. My Glowworm Betacom 24c was installed a couple of months ago. It stopped working this weekend. The fitter is not responding to my phone calls, and Glow worm are sending someone to look at it on Thursday. In the meantime I wonder if there is anything I can do to get it...