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    Asbestos corrugated garage roof??

    paint a rubber bitumen based paint on it should do the trick
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    sanding floor beams

    hi all, i am planning to convert my cellar into a room in the near future, just 1 query about the sanding down of the floor joist (underside) which is better to sand them with a sander or to plane them cheers
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    Lead Flashing

    you could use silicone, to patch it up or bitumin flashband,
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    flashing materials

    or a bitumen flash band
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    flashing materials

    i would use felt, as aluminum is a sellable thing, just like lead
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    pipe bender

    can be done, look in the big sheds to see, they only cost a few pounds
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    Leaking flat roof

    you can use an acrypol rubber based paint on the roofing felt, but make sure that you put plenty on and that it is bone dy and free from debris and such like,
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    New workshop roof

    i would put a box profile metal built up roof on it insulate it with 120mm fibre glass, with 2 light sheets in there :)
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    Customer that won't pay...again!

    we had a firm long ago who wouldnt pay up for doing a valley on a new roof,as he said it was all wrong and had to get some one else to retify it, so we went back and saw that it was exactly the same as we left it,(i know as i had put my initials on them)so we pulled up everything that we had...
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    metal box profile questions

    you use the 3mm sealent on the side laps,where they overlap, it only helps to keep condensation out, so if you aint got none i would use normal silicon sealant at the very least, you can get some 3mm mastic, called Arbo by us roofers, from a palce called fixing point in walsall or cft in...
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    metal box profile questions

    incidently i noticed you are in the west mids, where about? if your close to me i could pop round and give you a few pointers, plus i also have the sealant strip and some fixings down me cellar some where
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    metal box profile questions

    this is a good reading for you if your not sure, http://www.cladco.co.uk/install.htm
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    metal box profile questions

    http://www.cglass.co.uk/product.php?productid=16921&cat=416&page=1 thats the kind of stuff you need, you put it where the sheets overlap when you lay them,
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    metal box profile questions

    the use of foam fillers is reccommeded, and under the ridge, this will keep out the birds and wind, the stitchers should be fixed every 450mm with a bead of 3mm mastic strip under the lap (this comes on a 9 metre rool)as this will help in windy conditions,and will help keep condensation out
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    installing extra cunsumser units

    ok thanks for the replies, thought id might have been able to do the cu unit myself though didnt think about what would happen if the lights went, cheers, as for gas/elect meters think i will wait till they need replacing and ask the fitters to move it then
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    installing extra cunsumser units

    hi, how do you go about installing an extra cunsumer unit, as the 1 have is an old one and i wish to move it down from the front room to the cellar,with a view of eventually moving the meters to the cellar too could i put 1 in the cellar and link it to the old one using the thick feed wires...
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    Installing a printer

    hi there, reconnect it, then go to printer/properties,then click on update driver then just follow the wizard
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    TORCH ON FELT

    ideally black side should be facing down as this is the bitumen, run the torch across the black side until it starts to melt, then roll it out a little keeping the torch runnig across the bitum as you roll it out,
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    belkin router - security

    i was using my experience from a lynksys router, sorry my bad but its geneally the same :D
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    belkin router - security

    hi there clout, you will find your security tab on the admin page wich can be found by typing 192.168.1.1 in your address bar, you will be asked for a user name and password, leave the user name blank and typ admin as the password then set you wep/wpa key but make sure you write it down...
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