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    Destroyed lintel with a drill what now?

    PS get yourself a laser level. Fiddling about with bits of string is old hat nowadays.
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    Sri Lankan house build

    That's also the standard construction across most of eastern europe. Probably requires less skill than blockwork. Just knock up some bits of ply and pour concrete.
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    Concrete expansion joints - what to use???

    Just shove some plywood/osb/chipboard strips between the wall and slab if you want. Doesn't matter if it rots later.
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    Suspended or Concrete floor

    Block and beam floor needs no concrete pumping or curing time.
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    Please recomend a software for interior layout design

    floorplanner.com
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    Anxious about subsidence / structural movement

    Just get on with your life and stop worrying that your house is going to fall down. It isn't.
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    Flooring first or electrics / insulation?

    You will find that rockwool will hold itself up if you cut it generously oversized and stuff it in. No need for chicken wire.
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    Cowboy job on extension?

    You'll never manage to get a telescopic air vent in there now. Assuming there are others correctly installed, i'd probably bodge the bodge and foam that lot up completely.
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    Flooring first or electrics / insulation?

    Definitely fix the floor first. You will need to poke pipes and cables through the floor at various points and it's easier to put a pipe through a hole than to try and drill a hole in a sheet of ply and then get it to fit over a pipe!
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    Opening fireplace up

    I have exactly the same thing, and looking at installing a stove right now. Don't suppose you are in a 3 bed ex council semi? On mine, the right area is a solid mass of brick and a strange rectangular hole, maybe for an old back boiler? The flue curves right and over this solid brick area. I...
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    Combi-Boiler Management During Extension Rebuild

    Why would a housing be insane? It's standard practice to place boilers outside in a suitable housing. Of course you may well be bending/breaking the regs if you make a DIY housing, but I would.
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    Lean To Roof - Concrete Posts ?

    I'd be tempted take the steel brackets designed to bolt down 100x100 posts and turn them upside down and fix to the tops of the posts: https://cdn.aws.toolstation.com/images/141020-UK/800/94879.jpg
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    Decking between house and garden wall

    Well it won't be much of an expansion gap if it can't expand into it.
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    Extension 'Build Over Agreement' with shared sewer AND lateral drain

    Pretty sure this will be a big fat no from the water company, for multiple reasons. - No manholes inside building - No changes of direction without manhole - No connections without manhole
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    Stop drill from wandering

    Use hammer fixings. They hold in just about anything.
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    Help completing a Garden Room

    If you do get a proper builder in they will advise you on what's best. Building a properly damp proof and insulated concrete base and wall requires getting right some quite specific design details.
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    Help completing a Garden Room

    Pretty much all garden rooms (and sheds) are built that way and that stuff isn't a big issue. But up to you.
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    Help completing a Garden Room

    You don't need strip foundations for a garden room. If it's a timber floor (and it should be) you just create 4-6 short brick pillars to hold the subfloor up.
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    securing greenhouse to block paving

    My greenhouse has been resting on brick for probably 20 years with no corrosion...
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    Water Pipes Under Block & Beam or Within Insulation?

    Yes, essential to do it within the screed. Make sure you space the hot and cold apart from each other or else you will end up with warm mains water.
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