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thanks for the replies and dont worry, yes he is polish but he is not "that polish" and is not a cowboy. most of the work he has done is decorative. we had a structural engineer in before he started to check the walls and the structural engineer also visited the day they were taken down when...

Yes, but as he has 2 week contract job starting next week he is rushing to get everything done. I have told him I would rather him do things properly and not finish and I can get someone else in to finish the odds n' ends off, but it appears he hasn't listened. We definitely discussed sanding...

We have been using a builder who has been really good up until now and generally giving us a good finish on the walls he knocked out, plastered and painted. All in all we have given him about 3 weeks of work and as I say have been happy. However now that it is nearing the end of the job and...

I would like to get some advice on what the best acoustic underlay would be for our flat. We are wanting to put 9mm laminate down onto a concrete floor. We have been asked by the freeholder to make sure we meet Approved Document Part E so as not to cause a nuisance to the flat below. Any...

Is it correct when fitting a 9mm laminate floor onto a concrete sub floor that in between the underlay and laminate we should have another layer of ply board otherwise it will be too "bouncy"?

we are looking at having a breakfast bar in our new kitchen and the worktop with be the bushboard omega range. we have hit a little snag in that we cant actually imagine how it will work as laminate edges are so restrictive. i have attached a diagram which shows the breakfast bar in the top...

we are getting our new kitchen installed in 3 weeks and part of the new kitchen is a breakfast bar which has an overhang of about 1.3m X 0.7m. Although half of the 1.3m bit is along a wall. We thought we just needed to put a couple of "legs" in place to support it, however from investigation...

thanks, that makes sense. just to clarify, come in front door, turn left down hallway and new door leads onto open plan kitchen and lounge, in front of you is a door to bathroom and turn right down hallway to 3 bedrooms, so bedrooms can access front door without going near kitchen/ lounge...

apologies, it is a flat, not a house, on the 2nd floor. we have approval from the landlords to knock out the walls but they have not given us specifics around any fire regulations we should be following. at the moment the lounge and kitchen are down a hallway to one side of the flat and the...

we are knocking out some walls to make our lounge and kitchen into one room and getting a new doorway built we should be fireproof as it separates the kitchen area from the rest of the house. our builder has said a 30 min fire door should be ok to meet regs, is there a specific set rule or would...