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Hi guys Am planning on building a garden room on heavy clay soil in SE london. Am keeping to 30m2 internally as I want to avoid building control if I can. Building control are virtually impossible to get hold of right now, but from the very brief e-mail I recieved, they want 2m deep piles or...

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I am aware this has been discussed many times on here but I have a slightly different quirk. I want my outbuilding that I plan to construct in the back garden to have an internal floor area of less than 30m2 to avoid having to go through building control However, there is also a window seat...

I have built a few summerhouses / outbuildings on pile foundations (screw piles and concrete). On the latest job, the client wants to push the timber framed building right up to the back of the garden where there are several medium sized trees. Never normally an issue as the client usually...

Hi all I have installed a couple of those foil backed Pro-Therm electric underfloor heating matts, and am about to install another, each under engineered floating floor. To be honest, the layout has been a complete nightmare. Thought I had it planned out with a nice border round the edge...

Thanks magic mushroom. I'm willing to try anything but before I buy this cleaner, I don't understand how pushing the battery up affects the trigger whcih is all the way up inside the body. Thanks

Hi everyone Am at the limits of my knowledge with these as I have taken them apart but cannot figure out what the problem is. First up is this one: So as you can see it's got very little power. Now before you say it, I put new brushes in there and the battery, whilst old was fully charged...

Want to build a monkey bar frame for my friends kids. Here is the design: Basically just wondering if my design is strong enough. Although the 4 inch posts are buried 600mm in the ground with postcrete. I figure if fence posts can work loose then surely with kids swinging on it, it might...

Been thinking about a few solutions, obviously the quickest and simplest solution being the ideal. 1) Replace all 4in joists at 600mm centres for 6in joists at 40mm centres. A lot of work assuming the OSB roof is screwed to the joists. Plus they are sitting on top of the wall at the back...

Hi everyone I've read all the posts I can, and I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for, hence this post. Whenever I'm dealing with outdoor timber e.g. planters, fences, decks etc, I'm usually using tannelised timber and obviously have cut ends to treat. I see time and again, people...

Hi guys I've been asked by a friend to finish off their shed/workshop with insulation and plywood internally, but I've some serious concerns about the roof structure. As you can see from the image, the original builder used 47 x 97mm timbers at 600mm centres across a 2900mm span on joist...

Hi JohnD That makes lots of sense. Thanks for all that. So how many of the brass hinges have you got and whether RH or LH? Just had another thought. What about solid brass hinges if I can get some?

Or more to the point, I am looking for some suitable 100mm butt hinges that will be severely exposed. I have roof windows on my greenhouse which I need to open. This is out on an allotment so it is very exposed. I have used cheap hinges in the past, but they have seized up being constantly...

Any thoughts on time frame for something like this and how you would go about building it. e.g. a kit for the doors, maybe for the drawers too? or build it all myself?

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Can't thank you guys enough. Client was super happy and now have my follow on job through recommendation. This time the wardrobe is a bit more complex so I do have some more questions. So the first wardrobe I wrote about in this post was a single plain mdf, to be primed and painted. This...

Following on from this, I guess I do have two questions going forward: 1) If I hadn’t put a backing on, or had put a much thinner backing on, the whole carcass structure would have had lateral movement. My corner joints were simple butt joints glued and screwed. Is there a way to make it all...

Hi everyone The project is finished so just thought I would provide some feedback from what I've learned encase anyone else tackles this for the first time. So it is clear from the comments above that there are multiple ways of doing this. And more importantly, there is no one "right" way to...

Hi guys Am building a decent sized wardrobe in an alcove. Space is 900 deep x 1665 wide x 2670 tall with existing carpet in place. From what i can tell looking online there are a number of ways it can be done. Client doesn't want anything fancy and are trying to save a bit of money by...

What is best practice for positioning socket backboxes one above another in terms of routing the cables. Obviously I would normally chase up from directly below a socket back box, but if you have one positioned over the other, how do you get to the top one. I guess the obvious choice is to run...