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Hi all, My mother is coming into the world of the internet and I am looking at a provider for her, its looks like we will go with BT standard broadband and will purchase the Hub 4 router which will be required, the poblem is ther is no electric socket in the vicinity of the phone incomer (which...

Right I see. so it would be wise to lift the floor level to match existing house a specification for this will depend on what thickness you have to make up, I will assume 150mm 1. 1200 gauge dpm on existing floor lapping up wall at least thickness of floor 2. 100mm rigid insulation , recticel...

Can you clarify a couple of things please?? It seems from youre original post you have only introduced a cavity to the front of the garage , what as been done to the side and back?? Usually attached garages (depends on year built) have a floor that is lower than main house usually about 150mm...

Just after a bit of structural advice here!! all seems fine but thought best to ask. Have inbstalled a shower tray which I cast out of concrete in an upstairs en-suite. The tray we could say is average 60mm thick and the tray is 1200mm x 900mm (there is an offset quadrant) i work out this...

As part of a project i have tried to make a futureproof scenario for running TV to the rooms around the house. Basically I have fitted webro 100 coax X 4 (2 shotgun) from dish position to loft, webro coax x 2 (1 shotgun) from loft to each tv point in rooms 3 total cat 5 from Bt incoming to...

A retaing wall of 2500mm ideally needs the input of a structural engineer, the ultimate design depends on its retaining situation and ground conditions. the link and spec shown would not be suitable for a 2500mm high wall, that is assuming you are asking it to retain to its full height!! if its...

The dormer is an en suite to the bedroom, the bay window is perfect with the countertop sink in the recess,

my biggest issue is that in the en suite i have a bay window, in the bay window i have a polished concrete worktop /vanity, this i have created with optic fibres within the polished surface and at present hanging down looking for a light source to "make it happen" am thinking of rigging up an...

apologies 150mm hole !! i meant 100mm hole

not fully adverse, it as been 1st fixed for specific fan that i have sourced greenwood SRD100 (its an inline fan that will be in the roof void but the only access will be through the 150mm diffuser. this is the only fan i can replace through a 150mm hole, and at the time i could only see a...

2 pole isolator to isolate the fan from the electrical supply for replacement, maintainance (de fluffing) wish the "silent" fan to not come on if i turn the main bathroom light on, so if having a pee in the night no fan would come on!, for morning ablutions i would turn the sink lights on and if...

sorry by timer i mean an overun model.

Planning to put a silent inline extractor fan in my ensuite and ask the following. For regulations does it need to be on a timer?? I have 2 downlighters above the washhandbasin, the down lighters may not always be the light i would put on when using the bathroom, but would instinctively put on...

maybe I am seeing this wrong?? ex military top brass and indeed many current military, politicians , war analysts are all calling for a boots on the ground assault on IS, but the big question is whose feet in them boots?? now maybe I am missing atrick here but most of august and Septembers news...

Back in the early 90s i bought a house, as image, for conversion, on survey it was noted that possibly there was evidence of dry rot, i took a risk and on completion of sale was in with the crowbars to investigate proper... horror of all horrors the complete gable end of the whole house was...

Hope i can get a bit of advice here?? I are boarding out the ceiling in my extension which as a sloping ceiling in the bedroom, I have insulated between joists and was going to fix a standard insulated plasterboard over the joists, however (i work in construction) i had a roll of super dooper...

Hi All Just about to start undertaking sticking some board to my renovation project, are sticking to walls on a mixture of concrete blockwork, and brickwork!, question I ask is that i inherited some Wall adhesive 10 bags, from a neighbouring job, and can now see that there is a date on the bag...

ok Tony, my course was in 1994, i have worked out my beam design from my exercise books and a steel selection sheet with all the technical stuff that i once learned but did not retain. I have used this to help a freind detrmine that is 203 x 102 that he as installed very nicely over a 1500mm...

sorry woody but I do not know the answer to your question (without research) but what does that matter, that's exactly why I get uptight.

I keep coming across this one again and again!! I previously have gained a distinction in HNC structural design and elements, I have recently reviewed all my textbooks and are again competent of simple steel section, selection and design. What i am finding though is that my local authority...