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I'm about to make a small door canopy 60cm x 90cm on each side/slope. There are 3 rafters at 30cm spacings. The eave slate will be attached to a batten, but what will support the bottom of the slate, as there is no bottom batten? I could add an extra batten but it will raise the eave slate...

I bought a small wooden door canopy/porch like this one and I want to put slate tiles on it. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Apex-Pine-Door-Canopy---1190-x-1560mm/p/296073 Its 60cm wide, so guessing 5cm over hang on the front/verge, so total of 65cm wide. What width tiles should I use? 200mm 250mm...

I've been looked at this post which talks about two 10m RSJs (40cm x 17cm)which split into 5 pieces. Does anyone know roughly how much these would cost each? I'm looking to do exactly same thing but getting a rough quote without engineering calculations is difficult. I'm trying to agree my...

I have a small gazebo that I want to hang 40 led festoon lights on and maybe 4 small tree lights. I have a small consumer unit in our annexe with master breaker (MK5500s) only 2 breakers (B32/5932s sockets & B6/5906 lights). I'm going to use 25m of SWR armoured cable clipped to a solid fence...

We have gas central heating in our house for the radiators. We have a separate annexe and I want to pass the heating hot water to that building to supply a couple of radiators. If I pass a pipe between the two buildings, it will pass 1metre which is outside and above cover so needs to be...

I'm going to build a triangular 3.5m x 3.5m gazebo with pressure treated 100x100 fence posts. I've considering concreting the posts directly into the ground, but the way I've designed it I will need to construct the frame before fixing it into the ground. Therefore I'm looking at some supports...

I have a modern (5 year old) house with trussed roof and want to convert the loft with steels, etc. I'm trying to get a rough idea where the knee-walls would be on either side, to get a feel with the eventual room width and window positions, etc. Do the new knee-walls sitting on the new...