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Hi I am looking for advice on how to wallpaper the wall in an arched alcove. I only want to paper on the back wall part which is arched. The wall is 138cm wide (the paper is in 3 strips 46cm wide giving a mural effect) Any advice / experiences of what to do or what not to do Thanks :)

Hi. I wonder if anyone can help... We recently had some raised decking put up and the joist that backs onto the house has covered the 2 air bricks. We have drilled holes into the wood where the air bricks are (this is now under the decking) is this enough for the air bricks to still do their...

HI. I have recently had a full height cavity wall built on one side and a similar wall with gap for window built on the other side. On top of this glazing company fitted argon triple glazed roof - however they have just put sill boards over the open cavity on top of the 2100 high walls and also...

Hi. I am looking for some advice. Currently got a new extension with a suspended timber floor insulated between rafters with polystyrene and boarded and sealed on top. I want to lay electric underfloor heating someone suggested using hardie backer cement board (6mm) on top of board screwed down...

the builder of my conservatory has laid the floor height level with inside. This I think will compromise the insulation potential of our proposed ufh. We were having 10 or 12mm cement board on top of the chipboard timber suspended floor and then levelling compound and tile but tiler said we only...

Hi we have had a sun room built (had numerous issues wiht the builder e.g. built it 240mm too long, 20mm too high on 1 pier...) So we had a tiler come round to look at fitting under floor heating and tiling but the builder has built the suspended timber floor too high..it is already level with...

Hi I have just had a sunroom built 16m2 and want underfloor heating. I cannot decide between wet or the mats. If i have wet the floor is timber suspended 600mm with polystyrene insulation between timber. Does anybody have any recommendation about how to do this? Do I replace polystyrene with a...

The planning person said it didn't matter that it was astride the boundary because these things are grey areas... what matters was that it followed the plan..apparently once planning permission has been granted so long as the build is to spec boundaries are not considered (unless we had lived...

Already approached planning and because the building is built to spec they cannot do anything...even though on the plan it stated existing rwp to remain and the fact that they have bent it and repositioned it suggested to me that wasn't quite remained..the planning officer said he couldn't do...

Thanks. No she did not serve a party wall notice but neither did we. I dont want to fall out but I also do not want my wall compromised because she has not left any space to service her gutter. As it is her builder came onto our land to bend and move our existing rwp (he had pulled it out of its...

Two months ago My neighbour has built a new extension too close to the boundary and her gutter overhangs my airspace. This wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that we are now building a full height wall there too for a conservatory. My concern is that she has a gable roof and the...

what sort of thing do i look for in installation quality?

Hi all been having teething problems with a conservatory company and upon asking them to confirm the glass they will be installing for all glazing other than the roof they replied it would be: The glazing in the frames will toughened 28mm sealed units made up of 4mm/20mm black spacer/ 4mm low...

This is what I thought based on some stuff i had read..so they will have to make a new roof pane anyway! Cheers for your input

Yes it is. The stack takes the wc waste and the shower/sink waste too.

Can't re-route as the base and walls are already built..soil stack was always going through the conservatory roof..until the company forgot to include it in their plans..so I am guessing they have suggested a Durgo to save them money otherwise they will have to re-make a the roof glass to...

Hey. We are about to have a conservatory fitted and the company 'forgot' about the soil stack which should be going through the roof of the conservatory. On Friday they suggested we have a durgo fitted to the soil stack which will mean it can fit inside the conservatory. The soil stack serves...

It is a lean to design..ad yes 5.2m across the back of the existing house..projecting 3m outwards...and we do not intend to move until someone carts us off to an old folks home! :mrgreen:

Thanks. At a guess 39cm apart and 4.5cm wide (joists approx 3m x 15cm x 4.5) i will check in the morning..how do u calculate u values?

This is what I said to the builder today and he said he had checked with building regs and the floor was ok..and I am guessing this is because its described as a conservatory and as has been said anything goes..except for the fact that we want it as thermally efficient as possible...are the u...