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Dormer Gable by TonyW2 posted 23 Jan 2017 at 3:32 PM Photo added in case my terminology is incorrect. Rot has occurred in the fascia behind gutter end and on the "box end" and barge board of the gable part. The verge has been repointed.

Help please. I have searched under everything I can think of, but cannot find a framing diagram and valley layout for a false dormer. I am just trying to understand what is going on with my existing one that is causing rot on the adjacent roof fascia. Could someone please point me in the right...

Whilst doing this job, it would be a nice introduction to telephone wiring and enable you to get rid of the trailing micro-filters if you replaced the bottom half of the face plate with an "adapted filtered face plate." (£10) This gives you a face plate with a filtered phone socket and a router...

MPE222 Cut Out_wpdp by TonyW2 posted 8 Dec 2016 at 3:53 PM

I have a 2 port Myson MPE222 ACT222 actuator head on the zone valve of the central heating radiator system. This has 4 wires and has worked without any problem (but has needed to be changed about every 3years.) However the actual valve base is marked 28mm and Myson tell me that I need an ACT228...

Sorry to hear of your worries. You are inaccurate in your relative risk assessments and wrong about the likely outcomes of relatively small asbestos exposure. However logic is insufficient to stop anxiety and there can never be certainty about the future. Seriously it is appropriate to discuss...

Yes, that's fair enough.

Isolating valves indoors could be fitted .lt's no worse than the proposed suggestions or a camp site shower block

Why would it be inadvisable to install the valve outside so that it was just an outside shower?

Diag attached

11.6m of a 4m wide dead plain roll if you are OK with joints on the stair run. That's maths not a carpet fitters calc.

Don't forget the pattern match and pile direction

Business slow?

I have fitted a simple chain and spring door closer but the door only closes to about 4 inch from fully shut. It's just like when a door is binding on the hinges. However, if the door is closed manually it shuts easily. I have tried various adjustments to the spring tension, but this has no...

May be worth asking your accountant .

There are regional differences in expectations for "ham and eggs." I was amazed to get a slice of supermarket boiled ham with a poached egg on top on a visit to Wales instead of grilled gammon and fried egg.

If cistern is fed from a cold water storage tank, then turning off mains at stopcock still allows it to fill from the store.