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Firstly many thanks indeed for that clear answer and clearly showing what I'm doing wrong! The wood on the acro was just very temporary until I get my larger props later today. I understand your point about moving it closer and also supporting the rafter. I'll use my existing smaller acrow0s...

Hello all Today I took the plasterboard off an external stud wall (not sure if that is even allowed these days?). What I found was that there was a heck of lot of water damage to the joist and also the bottom of the studs. As the photos show, this doubled up joist was holding a small window and...

Yep Bob definitely knows his stuff but has a low opinion of DIYers. How do you know the work wasn't the work of a cowboy "builder"? There are so many cowboys out there its not true and even the Pros will not take as much time, care and attention as someone doing it there-self. I'm not saying...

Thanks for the advice now but this was a couple of weeks ago so I've already done it. I thought about it quite a bit and in the end went with what Woody said as wanted to gain as much height as possible. It turned out that the frame header was just a few mm shy of the wall top plate. In the...

After your helpful comments it doesn't bother me any more! Thanks so much.

Thanks for the answers and interesting follow up discussion on the regs. I'm now minded to do away with the extra fuse and have both fan and pump protected by a single triple pole switch. Still a little tiny bit of a niggle with the pump instructions saying it should be protected by a 3amp...

Hi All pump is 40w and fan is 24w. Fan switches on with lights (4 spots) and off after a time. I plan to take a feed from existing 5a lighting circuit that isn't heavily loaded. Pump manufacturer instructions say it needs to be on a fused spur. Fan says it needs to be behind a triple switch...

Yeah you're right it did sound like a whine but I didn't mean it to come out that way. Just pointing to where the answers are. I'll remove the "sadly" bit.

In case anyone cares, the answers are here: http://tomplum.boards.net/post/37074/thread

whoops. 2065mm !

Hi I'm hoping to build a small stud wall in a room where the plasterboard ceiling from floorboard is about 2065mm. The new wall will have a door and from the calculations I've done it seems I could either cut the door back by about 15mm. Or I could cut out a bit more of the old plasterboard...

Hi Two things I've been thinking about and don't know the answer to. They are about two different things but didn't want to clutter up the forum with two threads. Anyway here they are! 1/ About stopcock vs lever valve. Why have a "stopcock" on the internal rising main? Wouldn't a full bore...

Well I think I got there in the end. The test went well and then the next night it rained for hours but dry inside. There is quite a gap under the lead. It stays dry but ideally would fill it with something?

This sort of thing? You're right I hadn't done it and when I did the tile still fit ok over it so glad I've done it. Also added a wall of mortar - in some places though when I put the tiles back (not to see in this photo) the wall sagged down a bit. Anyway, I think its all done now but...

No problem as long as you continue to comment on poor little valley 8-). Hopefully you can see the flashing next to the fascia in the first pic. Also I'm guessing "dressing" means wrap the lead around the tiles as best as possible. I think I've done it slightly better this time? (Just noticed...

I think the problem might be that because the apron goes over the fascia on the left, if it then goes under that adjacent tile on the right, it basically slopes into it. Maybe it should go under the fascia ?

Ahh so it should go _under_ the adjacent tile on the right? I think I did that to start with but it looked like it wouldn't prevent water spilling over the right hand side - admittedly it was getting late so will try again hopefully tomorrow. By dressing, is that basically lightly hammering the...

So, I was wrong about the cut tile - I've now got a full tile there. I also put back the bit of facia that broke off and shaped it above the tile. I haven't put flashing on it yet - will do that at the end (oh and its definitely needed - my soak test proved it was getting sprayed a bit). I...

I'll double check that tomorrow but the reason I cut the tile was because I understood I needed to take the bottom course across to the fascia or just under it. In any case I do have another tile but I'm sure there was a 2 by 4 or similar in the way.

Your work looks really good. Regarding that cut tile, I don't think I can get a full one in there because there was a rafter or some other large baton in the way I didn't want to cut. So maybe additional flashing would help? I'm getting a 1M x 360mm of lead tomorrow so hopefully there will be...