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    Aluminium door hinge adjustment

    I have a 'WarmCore' single aluminium door which is catching along the bottom threshold. There is a obvious gap along the top edge, and the rubber seal is catching along the bottom edge. The door looks square in the frame so I don't believe it needs heel/toe. More, that the door as a whole needs...
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    Timber framed (with dwarf wall) garage conversion - Insulation

    I'm looking to convert half my garage into a 'habitable' room so will need to meet the regs for insulation. Looking elsewhere here, I can see the following layers are suggested... From the outside in: Cladding 25x50mm battens building paper 9mm wbp ply 100mm studwork 100mm full fill...
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    Wet underfloor heating flow/return routing

    All bar one of our downstairs rooms have underfloor heating and I'd like to add it to the one remaining room. It currently has a suspended floor and so possible to in-fill it, insulate, add UFH pipes and screed as per the rest of the downstairs. The only difficultly is routing the flow/return...
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    Screed drying time with underfloor heating

    I understand I should allow around 1 day per mm of screed before I go ahead and lay a final floor finish. I wondered though if it's worth gradually turning up the underfloor heating to 'force dry' the screed and speed up the drying time? Is this a known practice? If so, does it make much...
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    Screwing through plasterboard, studwork into brick

    I'm looking to mount a TV on a plasterboard wall. The 'stud' sat behind it however is only 2" thick before being mounted onto a masonry wall. I'm planning to use heavy duty 100mm screws so will go into the masonry by around 40mm. Can I simply drill through all 3 layers and use the respective...
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