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As you live on a farm, do you have access to a telehandler either directly or via a neighbour? Depending on the size and weight of it, seems like a couple of sturdy straps to support it from the TH forks, near the top of the stairs, before cutting the wall supports and unbolting the floor...

Thanks, I'll get truss clips

I'm about to start on my new shed. The roof will be a flat roof with EDPM over OSB3, so needs a minimum fall of 1:80. I've designed the building with a fall of 1:40 to be more forgiving of any inaccuracies I build in. I was also planning to use upside down joist hangers tying the roof joists to...

I know this topic has sometimes caused disagreements... I've no dog in that fight, I'm just trying to make sure if I sell my house I don't have a ball-ache on my hands proving my shed isn't non-compliant. I am planning out my new shed/workshop. It's going to be a timber-frame building on a...

I've done just this - my house has a concrete slab straight onto grade, and the slab was cold as anything. I put either 6 or 10mm XPS (marmox boards, specifically) down in the kitchen, utility and downstairs loo and it made a significant difference in those rooms both to the warmth of the floor...

Thanks for that, I'd only read about it so was interesting to see it being laid - you can see when the excavator-mounted whacker is being used there's still some definite wetness and "squidginess" to the mix, so it's nothing like what I was thinking (dry mix down, whacker, water). Seems like...

I suppose if the outer concrete forms a hard shell from the misting, any subsequent water won't penetrate to the insides (at least, not in a useful timescale), which might be another explanation for the rock hard/crumbly nature you encountered. Whacking it might just make that issue worse.

Great in theory and I've no issue with paying someone a decent wage, but there's no shortage of building sites (hence work) round here, so a bit of a challenge to find people willing to take on a single day of work when they can guarantee an ongoing income down the road. Then there's the fun...

Has the insta-bug reached civil engineering yet? I suppose stranger things have happened :LOL: I first heard about it when they were rebuilding the Oroville dam spillway - that was a pretty substantial project - also when I googled it Tarmac and Cemex both offer RCC. However... what I'm unable...

In civil engineering, roller-compacted concrete is a thing. I understand that this involves laying a dry mix and then running over it with heavy machinery, rather than pouring a wet mix into a form and screeding it off the top. Not sure if water is added or if it is simply absorbed from the air...

Replacing burner rings is not a gas repair; the instructions for ever hob I've owned includes instructions to the user to take them out and clean them. I thought I'd phrased it clearly to ensure that people realise I'm not talking about DIYing repairs to the gas, but for the avoidance of doubt...

I've got a Stoves range cooker (dual-fuel) that I've had for around 12 years, and recently the wok burner has developed a fault. For around 5 or 6 minutes from cold, the wok flame comes out where it should. Much longer than that, and flames start licking out from under the burner ring. If I...

Ah, so one of the benefits of a Water Safe is that they can sign off their own bit of the installation? That makes sense. I'll ask AW about what they would need to see as you suggest. Contamination shouldn't be an issue as this was agricultural land before they build it 100 years ago but I'll...

I've got a lead mains feeding my house from the rear. I've spoken to the water supplier who have said that they can connect me up to the new non-lead main at the front, but obviously I'm responsible for everything from the boundary back. Looking at my local supplier (Anglian Water) website, it...

I've given it a good soak in citric acid now and boxed it up for the next time - we'll see!

Hi all, I've got a concealed shower valve from Victoria Plum. Recently the thermostatic control stopped working (hard water area, 4 years of service, not unexpected really) so I ended up buying an additional valve of the same design and swapping the internals over. It's now working again as it...

That's a very good idea, thanks! Thinking about it, if the second hole is wonky I can go up a drill size to get the pipe through straight.

I have long enough bits - the problem is drilling two holes that are aligned with one another at both sides. :) Previous experience shows that over the course of a foot or so of brick wall, combined with very hard flint-rich bricks, the two holes that are aligned at one end will be 5-10mm out...

Bit of an unusual one... It's to carry cooling water for a PC outside to a radiator in summer to avoid making my office too hot. So the plan is to shut off and drain the external radiator in winter to avoid freezing and condensation issues. So the hot side will only be 40ish Celsius... Never...

In the past, when I've needed to run pipes through an exterior wall I've simply drilled a hole big enough for the next pipe size up and used a short length of pipe as a sleeve (e.g. 22mm pipe to run 15mm pipes through). I need to run a pair of 15mm pipes through an exterior wall (brick cavity...