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thanks for lightning reply, 18mm per meter, the run to stack will be about 500mm, so tiny fall is required?? 9mm?

Good afternoon, putting a new bathroom in and just wondered if someone on here who knows a bit can help me out: I'm installing a new toilet and wondered if waste pipe from toilet should be exactly horizontal or should it have a slight fall on it towards the stack? Normal wall its going...

Hi, already have 2 downlight in my bathroom, can I add this into wiring: see pic below! If so is it possible to have a switch to isolate fan when lights are on (when in bathroom but no need for fan on)? Many thanks [/img]

Sorry to post yet another tanking query but here goes! I'm putting a 'P' shaped showerbath into a new bathroom which I plan to tile floor to ceiling. Head of bath is against a solid wall (to which shower will be attached) side of bath runs along plasterboard. Is tanking a bit excessive...

after much consideration....... few seconds, I will get a platform sorted!

its a first floor window i'm going to do, would it be madness to use a cutter from a ladder!? fortune favours the brave!

Richard thanks for your help, I am planning to do this myself, cutting the brickwork with 9" disc cutter, dogtoothing the cut bricks out and turning them around to give the edge a face of brick rather than a cut edge. I have drawn a picture of what I have understood from your explanation (no...

Thanks for help, on searching www realised the 'corrugated' type i've mentioned are for internal walls. I'll use something like this: http://www.buildingsteel.co.uk/lintel_cb50.htm How do I fit this from the inside?

Sorry just realised that a catnic lintel is probably the type that will have a leaf front and back with a cavity insert in the middle? Could i not use the corrugated type as this would be easier to fit? Then use cavity closers around the frame? cheers

thanks for replies, i nearly had a heart attack when you said 300mm each side! I understand the 100mm-150mm each side and my BC officer has already specified that. Is a catnic lintel L shaped on the cross section? Cheers

I am putting a window in a new opening on fisrt floor of my house. Window will be approx 450mm wide 1m deep. The house is a 1970s brick and block construction with 50mm cavity (unfilled). Which type of lintel would be easiest to fit? Bearing in mind it will be a new opening. I have...

Hi, I'm putting a bathroom in a upstairs room and am going to install a small window, 450mm wide by approx 1m drop. I'm a confident Diyer but have never done this before. My local building control have said I will need a lintel, even though the window is only two bricks wide!! So, with a...