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hmmm ok so i have worked out that its actually impossible. I'll work around it but the rise on the stairs means making a horizontal on the riser side look a bit naff but so be it thanks

I am very lost here - i thought i could use a fret saw to remove the material from the back of the rail but due to the angle coming up the stairs it makes the dado on the 45 degree's 'taller' - Any clues??

A bit lost how to make this one work

so this all boils down to protected escape huh? I guess we must remember to close these new doors every night then!

i dont dispute anything that you have said but its currently not 'illegal' and open plan and by adding another floor i fail to see why this does make the ground floor 'illegal' but i take on board the fact that sometimes regulations dont make sense to all. Inspector A says that if we do what...

Hi What i am about to say no doubt will get people ranting at me about lack of respect for fire etc etc however what i would ask for is some facts and how i process those and deal with the concequences is my lookout.... We have had out loft converted and its curently being finished to...

well as an example from today... Loft in Victorian EOT in SW London with bedroom and bathroom over existing bathroom, so 2 rooms was/is 39k inc VAT for 'everything' apart from suite and tiles but cost included fitting suit and the tiling. That includes decorating and making good any changes...

So i am having the loft converted and there will be a bathroom and bedroom, i want to have sash windows in these. Its a victorian end of terrace so the rest of the house is origional sash's. I dont mind modern double glazed units as they wont really be seen but i cant for the life of me find...

New bathroom nearly done finally - Floor is tile 3 walls are tile 1 wall is fresh skim plaster Should i have skirting anywhere and if so on all walls or just the painted wall? Tiler is suggesting a small skirting of wall tile on the painted wall but its a Victorian house so i am more...

spoke to the builder this am and he claims that its a fibreglass type board rather than asbestos concrete. I am not sure either way but as he was the one going the knocking about then if he was happy to be in there doing it, fine. move on and wait for the next problem to crop up!

OK thanks - i dont know what it is but perhaps its not asbestos concrete afterall. I mopped out the area and wore a mask and applied some gaffa tape to the broken edges just to make sure nothing could go airborne. I was not in the area when they did it but there were not clouds of dust that i...

Hi I am having some building work done and a new soil stack put in - This goes down the outside of the house through the roof of an old outside toilet roof and into the existing drain. The builder has already made a hole in this roof and run the soil pipe and will be making another one to...

ah great - yes very similar to that, same type of colours also. what gap is that - 2mm ?

thanks for the advice - i am confident the tiler will do a good job. question on mosaics, the better half wants a strip of mosaic behind the shower mixer, sink and toilet cistern. The strips will be about 7 mosaics wide for the shower as thats the width of the mixer and then about 4 behind...

tiles are 400 X 300 so not small but not massive. i may have to go for the brick option though as its an olf victorian house and the walls are not square by any means and i can imagine having a nice full tile midway up the wall and then a 15cm infill piece at the top or something, or are...

Bathroom is currently being done and we have square floor tiles, rectangular wall tiles that are quite large and then mosaic for accents. With regard the wall tiles as they are rectangular should they be hung north south or east west? Also should they be hung like bricks or like 'normal'...

to follow up with myself here i called planning and they said that no i dont need planning but would need to speak to building regs. Now thats all well and good but the builder is on site and has only just brought this up which does not do me much good in terms of timings so... If i failed to...