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Evening all. I'm currently refurbishing my house and I'm at the stage where I need to render the inside of a chimney Brest. I'm no expert but have done some plastering in the past etc. At the moment it's just exposed brickwork. I would like to know the correct method and materials to...

Wabbit it made sense when I was typing it lol It's laminate flooring mate

Evening all. I Would like some advise on the best way to start my flooring. I want to lay the flooring in the hallway and through to the front room and dining room? Any tips would be really helpful. Thank you

Evening all. I've done a few tiling jobs in the past but need some advise on tiling a internal corner. The client would like 200x100 white beveled tiles. On the main wall I would normally find my centre and work out but should I use the off cut to carry round the corner on the other...

Thanks foxhole I will give it a go..

Evening everyone. I'm planning on doing some fitted wardrobes in my house and have no problem building the car-carcass but just wanted to know if anyone knows the spacing for the hinges, I bought a template of the internet for Blum hinges and it didn't line up with the howdens hinges I had...

Morning all. Doing an extension with a low pitch roof ( 15 degrees ). Believe it or not I've never laid plain interlocking tiles and wasn't sure on the layout. I will stagger each line ( like brickwork ) but wasn't sure if I needed a tile and a halves to start me off, and round the two...

Hi freddy thanks for replying. So 150mm down from the sill will be to the top of the rafter? Then Battern and tile and lead on top of this, I'll proberly have to cut the lead right under the sill then. Want to have about a 3 inch upstand of lead. If I fixed my pole plate at 150mm Down from...

Morning all, have another extension coming up and the architect has designed a 15 degree pitch ( mono pitch ) 197x47 rafters and tops to be bird mouthed (proberly 2 inches ) However I want to birdmouth the bottom end of the rafter but not sure wether to take 1 inch or 2 inches out? Any...

Hi oldun, spoke to you a while back about pitching roofs and was wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me the way you do it with bevels and scribing. thanks mate.

Afternoon all. Have an extension coming up and the architect has designed a 15 degree pitched roof (mono pitch) and has plain interlocking tiles (think they were gemini) There are 2 veluxs going in and was wondering what would be the best flashing kit. I noticed the EDW kit goes...

I'll give it a shot tomorrow, thanks for helping me mate.

Hi noseall. My seat cut is exactly 90 degrees, i used my square and then checked it on the chop saw with a bevel. I know what you mean about moving the pole plate beneath and maybe notching the top but i cant seem to find anyone to tell me this method that im questioning. I mean if a...

Hi noseall good to hear from you, you have answered a few of my posts in the past. Im literary at a knifes edge trying to scribe bird-mouth commons. I jumped the gun abit asking about hipped roofs i think, i still cant even do a basic lean to, ive bought goss roofing ready reckoner and a...

Morning all, can anyone tell me how you space out the timbers for a hipped roof, and easiest way to mark up and cut a notch out, ie how much to cut out. Thank you everyone

Morning all, can anyone tell me how you space out the timbers for a hipped roof, and easiest way to mark up and cut a notch out aka birds mouth, wanna take about 50mm out , thank you

Evening all, just wondering if I could get some info on framing a dormer. Just wanted to know what timbers are typically used, some say 4x4 posts and others say 4x2. Appreciate any comments