Search results

Do you mean you already have a single storey extension and you want to build a timber frame structure on top? If it is then I want to do a similar thing but I have a modern timber frame house where part of it (garage and breakfast room) is single storey on which I want to put a bedroom and...

Ok thanks. Any advice on building the block columns, foundations etc or do you think I should just go with the wall?

Hmm does say: "Maximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within two metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse. No verandas, balconies or raised platforms." It will be within two metres of the back boundary and will be well over 2.5...

Loads of thanks for your detailed reply Static!! I've just had a brainstorm though. The only reason I'm levelling this area is to put a large wooden shed/workshop on top. So what I thought of doing is to just build either a standard wall at the bottom of the bank or even just some large...

Soil type is clay. Trying to tier my sloping garden so it's just a bank and going to put a wooden garden shed on top.

Ok folks, Need to build a retaining wall at the bottom of my garden 5m wide by 1.8m high and would like to know if my plan is suitable. Founds going to be dug down to solid undisturbed soil of 250mm thick concrete, 750mm wide. 7n concrete block layed flat 2 blocks deep at the base for...

I've given a door and frame a coat of Crown Solo gloss but the missus has changed her mind and now wants a satin finish :evil: :evil: :evil: I was thinking of giving it another coat of Dulux Trade Satin. How should I prep the newly glossed door ready for the Satin? Any tips...

Thanks for the info. I'm using a fused spur because there's no room for a plug to fit behind the tv as it's a flat tv bracket and the flex plate spur would be flatter to the wall. I was going to put a socket in the attic and run the IEC lead thorugh the cavity but I read somewhere this is a...

Sorry if this is a muppet question but I'm looking to spur off the ring main for a fused spur with flex outlet for a wall mounted tv in the kitchen/breakfast room in my house. Above the breakfast room where the tv is, there is the attic for the garage and breakfast room as it's single story. I...

Thanks. I think she wants stick off the wall type :roll: This is going to work out expensive!

Ahh, thanks for the helpful post. This is the current switch: I've had a look around and have found black MK switches so think I might change the lot and go for black switches with a steel front plate. These are the switches...

Are you for ****in' real? I've met less touchy women. You're on an internet forum FFS, you can't be that busy!

I'll take a photo tonight. Not sure of the brand, but i think it is a 4 module unit with the 4th blanked out, if you know what I mean.

Hi Folks, Am just about to tile my kitchen and the missus wants brushed steel electric switches and sockets. Only thing is, because it's a pretty new house the appliances have been isolated above the worktops using a 3 way isolation switch. It's the type with chunky buttons with labels on...

I realise now that I'm going to have to have an RSJ spanning what is now the garage roof to support the front wall of the new extension. What I'm puzzled about though is how it will be supported on the exterior wall as this is single leaf brick. Am I right in thinking I cannot use this wall to...

Thanks for the info. Exposing the foundations shouldn't be a problem. I'm hoping that I won't have to step the extension back because there is another 4 bedroom design house on our estate that is pretty much exactly the shape ours will be after the extension. Ours is the three bed...

Hi folks, We've been living in this house for 4 years from new. It's one of those new fangled timber frame jobbies which I'm assuming is single skin brickwork outside of a timber frame with some sort of vapour barrier and insulation between the brickwork and drylined board inside. Part of...