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I was talking about this to my architect a while back. What he said was that to comply with the hygiene part of the building regs. a door must be fitted between a toilet and any area used for preparing food.

Peter The problem you have is that damp is able to pass from the exterior wall to the inner wall. For this to happen the cavity must be bridged and this normally down to careless bricklaying. I've just done a job where I cut a new door opening in an exterior wall. The cavity was full of crap...

Just finished an extension in Cardiff using imperial size bricks and metric blocks. It can be a bit of a pain messing around with the ties but when you look at the finished job that's all forgotten about and it'll be worth it for the extension to look like its always been there. You've had...

I expect everybody involved with this are asking themselves, what if. The trouble is in life sometimes we don't get a second chance. Most of the time we can let things go and get away with it, but not every time. I heard it was a childs party and the kids and parents were in the garden...

Down the road from where I live, a family live on some land they rent off a farmer. Apparently for months they complained about the condition of the cover on the septic tank and all the farmer done was covered it with a kiddies plastic sand pit to stop anyone tripping on it. A few weeks ago a...

You need to prevent corrosion and need to fireproof structural steels. In a domestic situation this is normally done with red oxide and use of cladding or intumescent paint paint for fireproofing. If a BCO is involved find out what they would like. I don't think you'll find any BCO'S who would...

Lots of cheap tools in the free-ads next week :lol:

Soakaways have to be a minimum 5m from all buildings and roads and 2.5m from the boundary. The size and number of soakaways will depend on the area being drained,ie. the roof and any hardstanding. You need enough land for the soakaways to cover the amount of area you're draining. You may have...

MST Done the EAL course. Done three or four modules a day and done a multiple choice test after each one. A choice of four possible answers with three attempts at getting the right one. On the last day there was an online test of twenty questions, only one attempt at each question. This is...

I'm celebrating tomorrow, it's my birthday. I share the same birthday as that famous geezer, you know the one I mean, what his names' son.

Scotster For the money you'll be paying out get your architect to sort out a JCT minor works contract. If you find a builder dosen't want to use the contract then don't use the builder. Most good builders won't mind using a contract, it covers them as well, not that a contract will guarantee...

Hi Roy At a guess I'd probably use three, it depends on how well I think the wall will stay together and if there's any other weight on the wall from above. You need someone to be there and look at it to be sure. You have to support both ends, you'll see this as the job is being done...

Try writing your CV in a Polish accent.

Speaking from experience

Looks like it's cold out

Bush has gone into Afghanistan, into Iraq and now he's going into turkey

Who knows, remember it's about money. I hope elecsa, napit etc. aren't enrolling everybody just for fees from their membership. Personally I wouldn't have thougt so. On my assesment spent about one and half to two hours chatting with the assesor, then on the work I was showing him got me to show...

Four worried faces, they've heard if you're a turkey you're going to be killed at xmas

What's David Blunkett doing dressed up as santa?

gaz you beat me to it