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The plan was to put a 110mm pipe. I have not spoke with building control, its my bro in-laws house, would I still need to speak with building control? If I want to make a new connection directly into the chamber, how would be the best/quickest way to do it? Would it be to knock out the...

Thanks for your replies. In answer to the questions: The wall of the house has had external insolation fitted. The external inspection chamber is the one shown in one of the photos, I'm not sure how deep it is as I've not opened it and I've not dug to the bottom of it. I had thought to...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help with a problem thats come up when fitting a new shower, toilet & sink to a downstairs room? I need to find a way to attach the new soil pipe to the inspection chamber but the existing soil pipe line goes from plastic to clay and it's a bit puzzling...

thanks, and yeah I know 30/40 mins is way too long, before I started it I though it would only take a day or so to do the whole room but at the rate I'm going its about 20 hours.... the bin liner thing sounds good and thanks for the tip about the beeline sealer. Appreciate your help.

Hello, I have been wallpapering a room with a heavy vinyl paper and the edges keep sticking up right after I have hung a strip. I pasted them right to the edges and when I folded the strips to soak before hanging I tried to keep the edges of the paper overlapped (not sure if I managed to...

Thanks. What would you say is the profile of an ideal customer is? like their age range, marital status etc.

I gave a quote to an elderly person a while ago, I did really cheep like £40 to freshen up the magnolia paint on her stairs and landing with 5lt of magnolia. She then asked me how much it would be if she brought her own paint from her friends shop lol, the paint I was going to get for her only...

How much would you charge per day?

I did training for about 6 months, level 2 painting and decorating and every customer I have had so far has been happy and recommended me. The customer who wants me to do the windows shown above was a referral from another customer. He wants me to come back in September when he is getting...

I was thinking that if the customer hires scaffolding I would be pressured to finish the job before the scaffolding needs to be sent back and I also thought that the £400 (or what ever the cost of scaffolding hire would be) could instead be used to invest in my own access equipment that I could...

Hello, I am wondering if anyone with experience can help me? I started painting and decorating after doing some training and recently someone asked me about painting exterior fascia boards, soffits and upstairs exterior side of the windows etc. I'm not sure what to charge here in the...