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Water meter yeah, nobody under 20. I'm 30 though ears are good... Meter hasnt moved I've been checking it

Hi, I've just got back from a weeks holiday and went straight round to check my water problem under the house... It's mostly gone, a little left but nothing to cause concern I don't think. So it's been a nice weather week in Newcastle when I was away so does that lead to the conclusion that...

Cheers guys, thought I replied to all help in the past, but my apologies if I missed someone... There is no kitchen fitted so no appliances that could leak, the water is always turned off by the stop cock in the kitchen, we are on a meter, I could monitor that over a week without using water...

Hi again guys..... I was under the house yesterday, 1950s 3 bed semi, has about a 5ft void under the house..... The void is made up in to sections with bricks but I noticed under the kitchen there was a substantial amount of starting water. So much so that's i had to go hire a pump and pump...

Hi, I got a couple of people who know what they are looking at, rather than builders and surveyors, and they all said the same thing..... Unless you can get ur fingers through the crack, don't worry, also the wall which recessed around my bay, as in the photo, was made of plaster board...

Hi Guys, Just had a email back from the fireoutlet.co.uk, they state that the installers should have fitted a black fireproof cream. Is this normal or are they just trying a quick fix, i also think that if the cuts arent square and parallel, the cream will not look right thanks

Can u explain a bit more about the safety aspect please

hi, thanks for that, what i was getting at though really was more about the standard of the cuts, dont you think they look very rough

Hi Guys, Just had a granite fireplace fitted by Fireoutlet.co.uk and it is for a solid fuel burning fire, ive read that the hearth must be cut into 3 sections for heat dissapation which is fair enough. However the job was done while i was away from home, i work off shore, my partner has just...

That's just the way we do things round these here parts

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Excellent that's the ties I got, screw in then they fork open into the mortar. Cheers

Hey again, I've just had two windows I'm my kitchen bricked up today, outside skin only, leaving me to to the block work on the inside tomorrow. The smaller of the two windows is only 410mm wide but the breeze blocks are about 460 wide so I can cut then down no problem but can I just sit them...

Gonna put a double gang switch box on that un finished nib by the door. Today after setting over night there does appear to have a slight wave in the wall but its gonna get covered by a kitchen so should be ok... Pretty pleased overall, need to D+D that other bit to form my right angle now and...