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Starting to think more into this project and have decided to go along the following route unless anyone has any better ideas or tips, vertical struts from joists to rafters to form wall sides to attach plaster board to and then attaching plaster board up the rafters so their will be a 50mm...

Thanks for the reply JOHND when you say about ventilation it is a new roof we had put on in 2008 with a roof window and 4 x air vent slates if that is what they are called with 2 at the back and 2 at the front, so we should be getting the ventilation ok i think with what comes through at the...

4.8M Long x 4m wide

I am in the process of planning a project to get stuck into over the next few months and was hoping if any one can keep me on the right tracks or input any advice and tips on my project, We live in a mid terraced house that has had the loft floor boarded out with t & g chipboard on cross...

anyone any ideas of the best cable detector to buy ive heard good reports of the bosch multimeter and have seen it on amazon for £35 so not too bad if it does as good a job as it states

My daughter has just moved into a new house and i have been round to plumb her washing machine in but has anyone any ideas why when the machine is emptying their is an over flow up over the stand pipe of soap suds, the stand pipe has a u-bend at the bottom and then rigged into the sink drainage...

Thanks for the reply, i tried the regedit as you suggested and all that is coming up is a white screen with my computer wrote on the top left hand side.

Has anyone any ideas why i am always being redirected to a different web site other than the one i am searching for through google. I am fully covered by virgin media pc guard and regular scans are schedueld and run for anti virus and spyware etc.but nothing is showing why i am being...

I have just replaced my old omnicron 7000 control panel with the above and very neat and tidy it looks compaired to the ugly thing we used to have, the question i would like to ask is whilst the optima g4 has 8 wireable zones i only need to use 4 and even though as i have read in the installer...

The wall is a solid wall but what i dont understand is if the foundation is inadequate why are none of the other houses in the street, not even the next door neighbours either side suffering the same problem as i have said it is a terraced street so i would presume all the foundations of each...

After reading all replys we have decided to bite the bullet and have a structual engineer call to asses the cracks we have been quoted £150 + vat so not too bad and then at least we will know one way or another whether the cracks are serious or not. One further point i would just like to know...

Thanks again for the replies, the cracks are 5mm at their widest point which is at the top of the wall under the bay going to a hairline crack where the wall meets the pavement.

Thanks for all your replys they are most appreciated, i have walked up and down the street looking at all the bays and i can not see any that are cracked or look as though they are pulling away from the main structure of the house as my daughters is. So why is this happening to my daughters ...

Thanks for your reply Stuart45, so in your oppinion do you think the second builder is correct and what about his quote ? Also is this through subsidence and do you think it is wise to contact the insurers ?

I am wondering if anyone has any ideas regarding a problem my daughter has with her bay window wall. The external wall under the bay window is pebble dashed with a stone cill sitting on top then a upvc double glazed unit sitting on top of this, where the protruding bay wall meets the main...

What is the statement about the fuse carrier all about ???

Thanks for your reply, the job did take quite a while so it could be the battery as it is an old omnicron 7000 one and i think the battery could be on its way out, i dont really under stand when you say i may have connected the alarm in series with the light as i took the strip light off a...

Has anyone any ideas why the following has happened, today i have been fitting a strip light in the loft which works fine as do all the other lights in the house, but the problem is , is that my intruder alarm is not ommitting any sound from the internal control panel apart from a very very...

Just recently finished tiling and grouting the bathroom which i must say have not done a bad job after noting help from a previous post i sent, but my only problem i now have is the white waterproof grout looks beautiful and white when dry but when the shower has been used the grout goes a dirty...

Thanks for your reply but i am finding it very confusing, do you mean, fit the wires that are coming from the ceiling into a jb rather than the choc block they are in and then fit a small length of flex into this jb and connect this into the plastic box inside the flush light fitting which...