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    Raising floor for glued engineered floor

    I'm installing herringbone engineered flooring in my dining room and I will want to raise the level of the floor by a few MM in order that it will be at the same level as the tiled floor in the adjacent room. The subfloor is concrete and level. The flooring in the adjacent room hasn't been...
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    Changing from fuses to MCBs in Memera 2000 consumer unit

    In our new property we have a Memera 2000 AD consumer unit and it has glass fuses which you remove/replace by sliding out a plastic housing for each one. I much prefer MCBs and wondered if replacing these is a job you can do yourself. All the circuits are fully labeled and it have RCD...
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    Replacing tiles over underfloor heating

    We've just bought a house that has underfloor heating in the kitchen & hallway but the ceramic tiles over them are not to our taste. The heating is electric but I don't know much more than that right now. If you need more information is there anything I can look at from what I can see at the...
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    Replacing wooden conservatory floor

    One of the previous owners built a brick & wood framed conservatory from a kit. We recently discovered that all the joists were rotten, some more than others. The conservatory has no air bricks so my plan is to add air bricks and replace the joists. However between the joists and the...
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    Buying a house & the building survey report is quite sca

    We were wondering that, and wondered if it was normal for the full building survey to request this many extra reports. As surely the homebuyers report would have principally (although being much shorter in words) said exactly the same thing no?
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    Buying a house & the building survey report is quite sca

    We're in the early stages of trying to buy a new house, as it's an old (approx 1870's) house we went for the full building survey and we received the report yesterday and to be honest it seems quite scary to me. I'm not sure if this is just the surveyor trying to cover their back or whether the...
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