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    Re: Lifting floorboards

    O.k great. Thanks. Appreciate it.
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    Re: Lifting floorboards

    Hi there A friend recently helped me lift a floorboard in our victorian house (we already lifted one floorboard next to). He suggested we just cut along the joist with a saw. Obviously we now couldn't screw the floorboard to the joist but he suggested we could just fix a piece of wood to the...
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    Lead Pipe replacement under foundation

    I've found the start of it in the kitchen. The street stopcock is literally 2 cm from our front porch/boundary and you can see that someone had dug up the pavement at some point. Thames water said if we dig a trench right up to the pavement they'll deal with things from there (for a fee).
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    Lead Pipe replacement under foundation

    No I haven't been able to find the old pipe. In the kitchen at the back it goes towards the front and then into the ground. I assume it's buried under the concrete. It's part of the reason why we decided to reroute it via the bay window. Any advantages of finding the old pipe?
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    Lead Pipe replacement under foundation

    Thanks both of you. I feel a little better about it. I should mention I assume it's a concrete foundation. There's concrete sort of hanging below the brickwork but difficult to see. It makes sense to make the hole we're working in bigger, think that could help. I didn't know a core drill could...
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    Lead Pipe replacement under foundation

    Hi there First post from me. I live in a victorian 2 up 2 down style house with a lead pipe which we'd like to replace and which I assume enters from front under the path to front door. I have a couple of questions: 1) To avoid digging up the front path is it o.k to reroute the new MDPE...
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