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Thanks again guys for the advice im not in the field of electrics no but im also not a saturday morning have a go steven ive did all fields of diy jobs with electrics and plumbing watched and read alot aswell if it was a commercial job i wouldn't even been considering doing a rewire my...

Yeah i wasn't looking to go down the line of even asking a domestic spark to get involved as likey chance as soon as they here Diy and such i presume they be like nooopee.... so wanted to work with me and just the building control i wouldn't be looking to test my self i would be thinking the...

Thanks for your detailed reply yeah see thats what im trying to find out ive bought all the cable consumer unit and rcbo for around £600 its only a small 2 bed single story cottage so not big at all im guessing a spark would charge anywhere between 3/4k to do the work if the BC with...

Ok thanks ive sent them a email just though i would ask on here also

Hi guys so looking for some advice well i say advice i dont mean specific generally views lol i mean the official legal advice on where you stand as a full non qualified diyer who wants to fully rewire there own home the lot new consumer and everything. am i write in thinking that you can...

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Here is where i am the past bodger has broken then front of the concrete lintel slab and build them 2 shoddy piers.. i want to take them out the ones with blue tics could i put a section of strong box steel over where the red is right through the brick ? Pack it and let it go off then remove them ?

Why when you attach files on this forum does it put them the wrong way around ?

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I belive something like this was in when the house was built

Hi guys thanks for the replies yeah it seems to have like a offset chimney stack all the stack is still there and full chimney throat like you say seems like the face has been reduced and what im now viewing as the face was once the center infill area the plan going forward would be to...

Around 100 year old i belive it use to have a cast range fitted , you can see where the front has been bricked up but all that brick work above is orginal as you can see the black coal dust mortar what was used in these houses but dont get what its all rammed in all ways thats what makes me...

Hi guys so ive chipped back this chimney breast on this house and its not what i was expecting.. it looks like some work has been carried out in the past to brick work maybe to reduce the dept of the breast why is the face so ruff looking and not laid in a stretcher bond fashion or has the...

Thanks yeah , im fitting a new dpc along the whole of the inner skin i have this last section to do but ive uncovered how poor this corner is , like i say the house once returned here so this would of been the corner of the house and carried on where the red lines are , the builder ad the time...

Hi guys attached few images so you can see where im working on , the end part of the wall where the door is used to be a return for the end of the house before a extension was added where they have broken the end of the wall off its all a mess and i want to rebuild but there is 3 lintels coming...

But my question would be where this closer of brick has been left from when there once was a door there should i carry removing it all the way to the top ?

God knows there has been no work done in this house for over 40 year dont know how all the rubbish has got in there.. maybe when the windows was changed all the years ago like i say these bricks are not on sand and cement its like a a mixed pit coal dust something they had a go using all the...

Here you can see where it goes over ive done about 1 meter up is there any need me going all the way up ?

Following on from what ive said about looking at old plans i belive this is where the old front door used to be which has been bricked up so i could presume that the bridge of brick over the cavity would of been to close the cavity for the door opening so would there be any issue me taking all...