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Thanks, and yes will be speaking to the electrician but no harm in being aware of the options first.

Hi, We're having our meter box moved from the entrance hallway to an external wall (surface mounted, solid stone wall), and the CU moved from the same hallway to a cellar located below the hallway. Plan was to have the meter tails exit the rear of the meter box and emerge below the floor of the...

Hi, currently digging up an old tiled kitchen floor (+screed). We have about 170mm-180mm of vertical space between the concrete slab and the bottom of the external doors. Planning to put in some dpm, insulation, chipboard, and a new engineered wood floor. Anything else to consider? Ive exposed...

Perfect, thanks for your help

Ok thank you, so this would be the correct lintel? https://www.jewson.co.uk/p/catnic-internal-wall-box-lintel-standard-duty-1500-x-143-x-100mm-black-LNBSD003

The lintel I've got is a 100x65 expamet pre-stressed concrete lintel, with a wooden wall plate between it and the joists

Thanks, can I cut bricks in half length ways to create shorter bricks for this? Otherwise I'll get hold of some slate

Hi, I'm replacing a crumbling brick arch with a concrete lintel. This lintel is above the end of a hallway and will support three first floor joists. One of the joists is significantly lower than the others and cannot be raised in line with the others. One end of the lintel will be bedded into...

Hi all, I'm moving the bathroom in my house (1880 stone/brick construction), building regs inspector made a passing comment about doubling the floor joists up under the bath while looking at another part of the house we are renovating. The existing floor joists are 175x50mm and span 3750mm at...

Thanks for the quick diagnosis sparkymarka :)

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Hi, My alarm system has been going off maybe once a week for around a month but today has gone off nearly ten times so figured it's time to fix it.. The manual has the model number RINS1548-4, which google suggests is a Pyronix system? It was installed 4.5 years ago and haven't had any...