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    fitting a door frame

    i need to fit a door and frame to my new extension. i'm handy enough but have never done this before. does anyone know of an idiots guide site to doing it please? thanks
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    self levelling a floor

    i recent self levelled my new conservatory floor but cant have got it quite right as i still have a few dips, maybe 5mm depth. 1/ can i relevel the dips and if so, does the already levvelled floor need pva'ing again or can i just top it up. 2/ if i tile the floor can the tile adhesive cope...
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    self levelling

    i recent self levelled my new conservatory floor but cant have got it quite right as i still have a few dips, maybe 5mm depth. 1/ can i relevel the dips and if so, does the already levvelled floor need pva'ing again or can i just top it up. 2/ if i tile the floor can the tile adhesive cope...
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    paper onto plasterboard

    i have dot and dabbed 12.5 mm plasterboard and filled the gaps with blue hawk plaster that has sanded down nicely is there any building regs requirement to have the walls skimmed and if not is it ok just to paper over the plasterboard? thanks
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    abutment ventilation

    i have had a mono pitched roof built on a ground floor extrenson. approx 3m wide by 2m deep. it has in it 2 big velux windows. there is a 10m venting strip by the fascia at the bottom but no abutment ventilation has been put in at the top. there are 7 7in roof spars that divide the roof...
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    dot and dab

    anybody know of any good websites that show how to apply dot and dab to regular and also 25mm insulated plasterboard?
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    minimum angle for rosemary tiles

    thank-you gents
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    minimum angle for rosemary tiles

    could anyone be kind enough to tell me the min angle roof pitch needed without boarding and felting a pitched roof?
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    roddable p trap gully

    dunno, ive never had a gulley blocked with leaves which is what was suggested to me. anyway, thanks to the contributions, ive found what i need cheers
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    roddable p trap gully

    but is a bottle guleey trapped?
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    roddable p trap gully

    my bldg inspector says i need one of these. i can seem to find all kinds of bottle gullys (roddable), and p traps are easy enough to come by, but a combination of the 2 i cant seem to find. is it possible to put a horizontal rodding pipe onto a p gulley to achieve the same effect. anyone know...
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    which skin first

    am building a conservatory with 6 bricks above dpc. 3in cavity full fill with isowoll, inner skin blocks. do i lay the outer skin first, then when dry put the insulation against it and jam it in with the inner skin blocks? thanks
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    loose fill insulatiion

    i currently have a conservatory that has 8 bricks above dpc. 2in cavity. the conservatory bit is coming down and we're building on top of it. the bldg regs chap has said we need to full fill the cavity then use insulated plasterboard. trouble is, when we take the conservatory down i suspect...
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    concrete base mix

    thanks noseall - u can always be counted on for an answer!
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    concrete base mix

    for my conservatory have got what keyline call 1/4 down mix (sone and sand together). what amount of this should i mix with the cement for a conservatory base? thanks
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    dpc over 4in cross floor ventilation pipes

    am building a conservatory. have put in harcore/sand binding. in order to maintain airflow to underfloor of existing house, have had to put 4 x 4in drainage pipes to feed the air under the existing house, and these are fed into telescopic ventilators. trouble is, i cannot lap the dp membrane up...
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    paving slope

    thanks noseall - would you go for 150 or 200?
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    paving slope

    anyone know what that quates to as an angle?
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    paving slope

    am block paving a patio about 8m in width and need to drain this water towards a drain, lot of which runs off the clay garden. could anyone advise me the minimum slope i should use in order to get the water to drain away. i have a digital spirit level that will read 1.2 (for example). apart...
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    mortat depth

    whan laying bricks 73mm what depth of mortar should you aim for - is it about 10mm?
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