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What you could do is glue it all up and when tight and solid, run a 6mm router cutter down each joint, and tap in some 6x6mm bead in a contrasting colour. Sand flat. Maybe even cut a circle in the middle and inlay a circle. I did this with some mahogany once - inlaid a lighter bead. It looked...

Dig out 100mm. Fill with MOT, level and wack. Get 4-5 100 x 65 concrete lintels https://www.cwberry.com/prestressed-concrete-lintel-100-x-65mm and sit on wacked MOT. Sit shed bearers on concrete lintels clear of the ground. Job done.

Agree do nothing, advise it was built in 2018 and wait for an enforcement notice that will probably never come. And keep up your sleeve that as far as you are concerned it is more than 2m from the boundary - let them prove you wrong. I have an interesting situation myself because I would not...

I can certainly see the sense in keeping the chimney space ventilated if the stone work is trapped behind an impervious render. I would vent at the bottom to outside, not inside, because if you vent inside you risk introducing warm humid air to cold internal surfaces and promoting condensation...

correct answer every time - and should be the answer more often promoted on the forums. Every single manufacturer of anything will provide installation instructions for their products, and that is always the correct method.

You mean the video provided by the plywood manufacturer about how to fit their own plywood? but I guess you know better than one of the UKs leading board suppliers....

There you have it. My opinion based on my own personal experience working in old houses, and an alternative view. You can pick either.

Whatever you do, don't line it with something fixed with a water based adhesive - you'll get salts transfer from all the salts in the bricks. Either use board fixed with foam adhesive, or get some top-hat metal channel, fix that to the brick, and fix boards to that. If it's only going to have an...

Can we have a photo of the old door? Old boarded doors tended to be pitch pine which is a far more durable, stable and robust material than the carpy whitewood we get now. With just 1 x 1/12 battens it will be flimsy, will expand and contract hugely with the weather and will probably warp and...

Honestly? If you haven't opened it, take it back for a refund. It isn't really suitable for making a door out of with battens unless you want the flimsiest door.... If you do want to use it, make a frame out of 1 1/2" X 3, fit some diagonal braces and top/bottom supports out of 1" thick timber...

My goto is Osmo top oil which has worked well for me, but I certainly wouldn't discount @blup suggestion as well.

Here's a fitting guide from a flooring plywood supplier, including a nice video. Spot where they show big gaps between the boards. - clue - it isn't there...https://sp101.co.uk/fitting-guide/ and here's the pdf version https://sp101.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SP101-Application-Guidelines.pdf

unless the door is absolutely shot, it's likely to be old wood that is far better than any new wood you are likely to buy without spoending ££££. Is it unusable? irreparable? photos?

No I'm not. I understand what I am saying perfectly, but for the purposes of the example kept it simple to illustrate a point - not so easy to start delving down in to compound probabilities in a DIY forum.... I'm really not trying to enter in to an argument. You are entitled to your opinions...

So the old person with a problem and a valid treatment available can choose to spend their own money if they are rich enough to have the treatment, whereas the poor old person has to rely on someone doing a cost/benefit analysis on them? Really the difference between NHS and the American "can't...

I wish we had a "down arrow"....

It's a personal choice. Anecdotally:- my wife is a dental clinician and sees hundreds of people and has to ask their medical history of every one. She sees very few people my age who are not taking something, and those people without exception appear the most active and healthy. Some people take...

Just to add, if the PWA does apply, then a condition survey of your property should be part of it. If it doesn't apply, it might still be worth formally getting a condition survey with photos done. The works are obviously going to be substantial, and should anything happen your records could...

@JuddlyFire - first, really good to see a knowledgeable fire safety person here. Second, can I just take issue with your point about extract fans must be ceiling mounted - I just checked the approved doc for my own interest and circumstance (OT for this thread) and it actually says:- whereas...

I am afraid I am a huge cynic when it comes to taking routine drugs. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but all these "thresholds" that have appeared above/below which you are recommended to take various drugs I am sure have been influenced to some extent by vested interests. If no-one took any...