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We have an outbuilding approx 2 metres away from the main house and would like to install a bathroom there (all under Building Regs). Can we spur our main heating and hot/cold water from the house to this building? How would we go about insulating the pipes as they run in a trench through the...

How do you create the horizontal channels with render?

How is the following external wall constructed to form the wide 'blocks' and deep horizontal recesses?

We have 6 sockets with the cabling running to one point (next to the master socket) we need to connect all 6 into the master socket, but only 3 phones will be plugged in at any one time.

We want to connect 5 telephone 'extension' sockets into the master BT sockets. All wires run back to the master socket location as opposed to being daisy-chained. The IDC junction boxes only seem to take 2 wires, whereas we need one to accommodate 6 wires. Does anyone know of a junction box...

Could anyone please offer some advice?

I have two questions in regards to painting existing and new timber. I would prefer to finish everything with a water-based paint due to the faster drying times and non-yellowing effect. 1. I would like to paint over old oil gloss paint which I have matted down and keyed. Is there anything...

Should the undercloak be flush with the wall and the tiles coming out 50mm, or should both the tiles and undercloak come out 50mm? I'm going to assume the former so that when you look up all you see is tiles as opposed to cement board.

Are we still using a piece of ply here? Or just wall > mortar > undercloak > mortar > tiles (and fixing to the undercloak?).

Would there be any benefit in screwing the ply as you say and nailing a cement board undercloak to this?

Planning restraint due to the hipped roof (cannot be seen in the photograph). Hence the dormer was built on top of the inner leaf of the cavity wall. I think lead wouldn't look too good here, especially that there wouldn't be an overhang over the wall and it wouldn't tie in with the lower...

We have built our dormer and now need to bed one row of tiles and install the soakers along the external wall. A roofer has advised that we remove the existing mortar from the wall and screw down slates into the brickwork along the length of the wall and then lay the tiles onto a bed of...

As long as boards are staggered so no two corners align and the edges finish in the centre of joists, what difference, if any, is there if plasterboards are installed on a ceiling in the same direction as the joists run (i.e. longest side of the plasterboard runs parallel with the joist) or...

900mm above the roof or above any nearby windows? That seems very high otherwise, what's the reason?

What's the minimum height a soil vent pipe should run above a flat roof (no windows in the vicinity)? And what's the best type of 'cap' to place on top of the pipe to prevent rain water and small animals from getting in?

We are re-arranging our two bathrooms and will be installing new soil pipe runs to the existing soil stack. My question is in regards to the soil pipes servicing 'toilet 1'. Is is perfectly acceptable (under the Building Regulations) to have the soil pipe run in one direction, drop...