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Well - I guess this isn't the most opted for route... I am reorganising the layout of my property - and all things taken into account this would make for the easiest solution. However I wondered if there are any regulations that prohibit access to an integral garage / workshop from a bedroom?

Thanks! We'll give Zinsser BIN a try.

Hi all Well my parents are having a bit of a 'mare with one of their interior doors. It's an original door in an Edwardian house. It was stripped and varnished sometime in the 1980s as so many were... Now they want to paint it white but are having a major problem with what appears to be resin...

I was looking at a couple of these and also wondered if anyone had any experience of them?

It passed inspection :) Phew...

The wall was originally part of a substantial group of garages which were subsequently demolished leaving just this wall around the perimeter of the plot. The lowest footing course appears to be of different brick with a yellow tint. A cross-section of the construction as I see it is as...

Thanks - I'm living in hope :unsure: He's coming to have a look again this week. The stepped footings are seven courses below the surface level and as you can see are two courses thick. The footings sit on solid clay. It's all clay around here - and you can see the clay in the photo above just...

OK I suspect this isn't good news :( I've been digging - and unearthed stepped brick footings. No sign of concrete foundations as of yet... Footings by machineage posted 3 Oct 2016 at 3:50 PM What would be an approximate cost to underpin a 5 metre length of wall such as this?

Wunderbar :(

Thanks The wall actually formed a building constructed in the mid 1920s. Better get digging.....

Hi all I plan to extend my attached garage. One wall of the extended part of the garage will be formed from an existing 9" thick boundary wall. This wall already forms one wall of the existing garage - and it is the continuation of this wall that I planned to use. However BC have told me that...

Hi all Thanks for the replies. The foundations are up against the boundary with my neighbour which comprises a timber / concrete post fence. Just digging for the foundations would leave the fence in a somewhat precarious state - I suspect I would need to dig & fill. This will require BC...

Hi all So I had planning permission granted nigh on three years ago. I have been up to my ears in everything other than my house the last three years - and so now I am faced with letting the planning permission lapse or getting the minimum done to satisfy the council that works have started...

OK - back on topic... :) Dan you mentioned there were a couple of components that deemed it unsuitable for one of your projects, what would those be? Is there any other reason for the difference in price other than what has been discussed here thus far? Are any of the parts older / inferior or...

Just on a slight tangent - is it true that all new boilers sold will have to be ErP compliant soon - and that the current Intergas HRE range will be updated with an ErP compliant pump? Thanks :)

Thanks Dan :) I'm not an RGI just an interested end user. The cabinet looks the same as the former Atmos Intercombi. I wonder if it has it received all of the tweeks / updates / improvements that I understand the Intergas boilers have over their production life? Certainly seems cheap for...

Hi all! Can anyone give me the lowdown on the new Intergas Rapid boilers? Is it me or do they look like an updated Atmos Intercombi? They come with an Erp compliant pump + internal EV. They are certainly cheap compared to the standard HRE models. I've seen the Rapid 25 (equivalent to the HRE...

Agreed Gerald... He was in fact the same tiler that laid the kitchen tiles. Another problem being the kitchen tiles have dark grey grouting - and the utility has white grouting! When my Mother questioned him about it he said 'I can't get the same grout I used for the kitchen any longer'. I...