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Hey everyone, I've always got good advice from here so just wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Our house is a 1930's semi with solid wall construction. About 2 years ago we completed an extension on the side of the house which needed rendering but as the render on the...

Am I ok joining the shower and basin waste as such?

Plan 1/2

Hi, I've been doing an extension gradually over the last few months and time to finish off bit of an en suite before tilers come in. I've come to fit the shower tray amd planned to have the 40mm waste exit straight out the house (diagram 1) but the waste too tight to the wall as there is a...

They do @Madrab Cool, was hoping that there might be some surface mount but more I look into it the more I come back to what you've said. Thanks for the advice, much appreciated

Hi, We've spent the last 6 months doing an extension and have the tilers coming in for the bathroom late September. Thought I'd best pick up where I'd left off and make sure everything was in place before they came. Had left the thermostatic shower in it's box after a quick look over when it...

I've come round to fitting out cooker hood. On fitting knew I'd have to cut into the hand turned cove and make new to try get the decorative flue part to look as though it goes up to the ceiling but at the position the splash back has been placed it's a fraction too high to slide the panel in...

Sound, I'll place an acrow and bought a prestressed concrete lintel for the opening (1.5m) to replace the loose bricks, rendering chap felt his beading would adhere better to it anyways. I'll just take it easy. Cheers for the help

@^woody^ I'll wack an acrow in just to be safe. In this area, know there isn't masses of load with the wall being small but would the original timber framed window have been bearing the load for that wall? There's a large timber lintel on the internal skin but nothing except the jack arch and a...

Cheers @tell80 that's brill

Hi, I need to replace the loose set of cut bricks forming overhand above this PVC window with a lintel (mainly for aesthetic purposes) before rendering. My feeling is the Jack arch is self supporting especially as the bricks below are loose, would you place some acrows in whilst taking the...

Cheers @^woody^ I'll have a gander at them. I'll have a look at taking a bit of soffit off tomorrow, think the wall end is pinned to a batton against the wall so could poss loosen it off the batton, fit the J trim and pin back up again.

@^woody^ They're black plastic

We're having the house re-rendered. House was build in the 1920's and the soffits currently butt up to the original render. Company have come out to take off the old render and advised as the new render (PRB system) is going to be thinner than the old render type there will be a gap between...

@oldbutnotdead they're natural canadian slates I think