Recent content by Higggo

Hi Woody, I spotted a post you left regards joist hangers (drilling out mortar slotting in and pointing up). Probably a silly question but do they need bolting to the wall also? I can't see how they'd move with the joist butted right up to them but wanted to check! Hope you don't mind me...

Hello folks just wondering if anyone has any experience of laying this flooring at all. I have 2 rooms to do, about 95% over floorboards and 5% over concrete. Do I need to lay a damp screen down over the lot or just the concrete part? The underlay I have gone for is fibre board (7mm) if...

Hi we have a joist under our ground floor which doesn't sit on its brick support, unless stood on! So once you step off it it springs off level from the floor in the adjoining room. I have been advised to cement it down in position, would cement hold it down, also would it need a membrane...

Hi we have just had a builder in to quote us on our kitchen to re plaster etc. The kitchen is a kind of add on to the back of the house, single story with pitched roof. What we were looking at is removing the horizontal ceiling to have velux windows installed. Our builder advises he would just...

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Thanks for the advice guys, managed to shift the old remnants with a cold chisel as suggested. Don't want to be doing that again any time soon! Thanks again

Hi, could anyone advise how to remove remnants of old soil pipe? I am in the process of renewing the section coming into the toilet. So far I have removed a section of cast iron back to a collar, the problem is there are remnants of the now removed section within the collar which i just can't...