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https://glidevaleprotect.com/faqs/how-do-i-ventilate-a-cold-flat-roof-and-which-product-do-i-use/ The link covers ventilation. Also, minimum Kingspan to meet building regs is 120mm.

I came to plumb in a Belfast sink, the waste supplied was just too small of a diameter, the one from the supplies was slightly too big. The plumbers merchand had one that fitted but had a standard plug. So after measuring the one that was too small and the one too big, I determined about 90mm...

99.9% of ground floor damp issues are resolved by lowering the ground around the house so it's 6 inches minimum below the inside floor level. If it was mine, I would have the floors dug out, 1 inch sand, 1200g dpm, minimum100mm kingspan with minimum 25mm kingspan upstand to outside walls, 1200g...

If you were to sell your house, then without the loft space passing and having building regs, it can't be described as a bedroom etc.., just loft storage space. So yes, you only need to worry about doors, fire alarm, escape route, stairs etc.. if you went down the regs route.

The hinges I've come across tend to have some cover that pops off or a grub screw comes out, so you can hinge a plate open to reveal adjustment screws. So if there's nothing on the outside part of the hinge connected to the door frame, what about the part connected to the door?

How to knacker a house in two easy steps - 1) Inject the cavities with insulation 2) Grow plants up it

What about on the other part of the hinge, hidden between the door and casing

If leaks are passing between the thread and nut, try Locite 55

Just tile onto the plasterboard, why does it need be cement board? Heat from a log burner??

Well, I was speaking to a joinery manufacturing company a few weeks ago and they said stairs creek because they're made out of wood, so they make the risers and treads out of MDF. You are going to have to glue wooden batons and screw them into place along the edges of the risers and treads...

It's the DIY approach that makes people put cables in cavities etc.. rather than in correct places. SO when you come to fit Type E cavity trays because of an extension, makes cutting bricks out more annoying. Also, which derp would put a cable in a lintel? I recently did an extension where the...

Try Google.

When it comes to doing electrics, either employ a qualified electrician or go on the courses to become a qualified electrician.

Yes, they can be fixed by getting under the staircase and hammering the wedges in further.

Block pavers are uniform in size and fit together quite tightly, then grouted with kiln dried sand. Bricks are not uniform in size, and thus they tend to have approx 10mm beds and perps of mortar around them. I've never bedded bricks on sand, and with the irregular sizes, not too sure how that...

Plunge saw.

We've done similar jobs as in the OP where the SE have just said ties and building control just always go what the SE says. But as I've mentioned before, structural work should require building regs and building regs would want to see the calcs.

Well, there's nothing wrong with asbestos as long as you don't cut it / sand it, or anything that puts asbestos dust into the air to breathe it in. You couldn't go to a property and fit, say, a panel containing asbestos, but if there's already one there, there's nothing stopping you using it in...

No asbestos whatsoever, it'll be a product like polystyrene and probably treated not to absorb moisture. The stuff blown into cavities tends to be either cotton wool stuff or little polystyrene type balls.

You would need to create a cold flat roof system. https://jtcroofing.co.uk/news/warm-flat-roof-cold-flat-roof/