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Thanks for that Woody Im off to see the BCO tomorrow and admit my full plans application.

Hi there, I am in the process of planning our new extention, its not anything major and less than 10m2 so is not subject to planning permission but is subject to building regs. My architect has just dropped off my drawing and says that the outside skin needs to be 150mm away from the party...

There is no definate drying time as the atmospheric conditions determine drying time, Once your confident the skim has dryed properly (on average this is about a week), theres is no need to worrry about the hardwall underneath as this should have dried out before the skim was applied.

I am looking at replcing the window in my boys bedroom at the rear of the house, the window that is replacing it is upvc and slightly smaller in width but the same in height. My question is; do i need to support anything when i pull the window out as i dont know if there is a lintel above it...

Thanks ever so much for that will give them a ring and let you no what happens. :D

I know you can buy leading kits for your windows, but is there a georgian bar kit on the market ??? There is nothing wrong with our windows so i am reluctant to replace all the windows if there is a kit out there that can do this for me ?? Regards Stan.

what has happened to the pc recently for this to happen ???

Are you talking about internal or external corners ???

Hi once again, I have recently taken up the ceramic floor tiles i had in my kitchen to reveal original quary tiles, unfortunatly a large portion of them are damaged so i wont be able to use the original floor. My question is there is a white salt like substance on some of the tiles...

Hi there, I am building an extension to the side of my kitchen, its single story with a mon pitched roof and i would like to put a couple roof windows in to allow a little more light into the kitchen. The windows do not need to open so i would like them as cost effective as possible...

thanks for that i did try but it says its not taking any more registrations at the moment. :(

Hi guys, Bit of roofing info required here please (not being much of a roofer myself) soon going to be building an extension at the back of the house that will line up with the existing kitchen, i want the roof level the same am i best off stripping the existing roof and doing the...

Hi there, I have a down stairs shower and toilet which is in close proximity to the kitchen, the missus (god bless her) wants to keep the toilet but get rid of the shower, not a prob tiles are gone, shower and associated pipework is gone but my question is, what do i do about the...

Thanx for the reply but i can eliminate plugs, leads, dizzy cap etc all replaced when the head was re-built.

Hi there, About 6 months ago i obtained a 1.6 205 GTI, i am now 39 so no longer a boy racer im afraid, i thought it might be a good idea to do the car up and give it to the missus. When i got the car it had two main faults, 1. Lots of blue smoke out of the exhaust, 2. Did not...

Hi Guys, I am in the application stage of building an extension to my kitchen, my current kitchen sticks out 3m beyond my dining room which means that there is a bit of wasteland between the exisiting kitchen and the dining room, this is were i want to extend to. the floor levels...

Cheers for that Woody, the roof is going to be mon-pitchedso the guttering and the eaves will be at the front of the extension which will be on my property so i shouldnt have a problem there i hope. :?

One more sneaky question tho while ive got your attention, how close to my boundary wall am i allowed to build ??? the wall runs along side were i want to build my extension, and of course i want to build as close as possible to it to maximise space.

Cheers Woody, I spoke to the council and they looked on a program called "DigDat" and said it defo a sewr pipe, im not building over it but will be only 650 mm away from it.

The sewer pipe is 500mm down in my garden, i have been 5 houses down the road where the manhole is and at that point it is 1.2m deep.