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Thanks. There would be space for the new door and frame even if the wooden frame was left as the current door is quite wide. Is there any specific reason to attach it directly to the wall/bricks or is it just generally good practice? Thanks

Hi I’m looking to buy a composite door as my wooden door has seen better days and is starting to crack. I’m aware that the composite door will come in its own frame and so generally you would remove the existing wooden frame and fit the composite one to the brickwork. Is this absolutely...

Thank you, I’ve attached a couple of photos

Hi we have just moved into a new house which has a shower arm coming out of the wall to a rainfall shower head. Having looked at it closely the arm is at a slight angle and is off the wall by about 5mm at the top but touching at the bottom, almost like the weight of the shower head is pulling it...

Brilliant, many thanks

Thanks for this. I’ve just realised the salus rt300 is just a thermostat and not one with a programmer. Can you recommend a decent thermostat/ programmer as I would like to be able to set different temperatures for different times of the day through it. Thanks again

Hi can I just check is the grey wire on my thermostat neutral/switched live and the brown one live? If I swap the thermostat with the salus rt300 I presume I just need to swap these two wires and properly isolate the black one? many thanks for your help

Just found this, this suggests one of the walls is supporting??

I have ones showing the elevations but not a detailed roof one? Would the elevations one help?

Hi I am looking to knock down two walls to make my kitchen area bigger. The walls are part of a single story extension carried out by the previous owners. I will get a specialist in to have a look but with COVID at the moment I was wondering if anyone could give me an initial thought virtually...

I have recently moved into a house with a large area (about 59m squared) of tiles on top of a wet underfloor heating system. Half of the space is in the original house and so has wooden floor joists with (I presume) the pipes running between the joists somehow. The other half of the space is an...

Hi i can hear humming from it so i was presuming it was still connected. I think it might be time to get an expert in to have a look. thanks for all your ideas

Thanks for your responses. Could it be anything to do with outside lights as there are some outside lights which it looks might start from close to the box?

Hi thanks for your thoughts. Yes it is it's https://planning.bournemouth.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=38148# if that helps.

If i have replaced already the 12volt holders and transformers for individual spotlights and replaced with 230v gu10 bulbs (which from the sounds like might not have been the best thing) is the transformer required anymore?