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Hi, We are replacing our copper soil stack with PVC. It runs internally, in a straight line, from bathroom floor down to kitchen floor where it enters a flanged clay pipe. The copper waste pipe is 90mm in diameter and the hole in the clay pipe that it sits in looks to be the same (a very small...

Hi, We have an awkward window/bathroom/budget situation. The window has strange angles to it due to the "ashlar" walls and nothing being straight. We have a corner bath with overhead shower going in (to appease all the varying requests) under the window and we will be tiling the window wall...

Hi! We are looking at putting an enclosed porch at the front of our house and I'm trying to understand the roofing options and process. I'd love an apex roof but wondering if a flat roof might be less interfering as we have a mansard roof. I've seen the below image. Our 1st floor walls are at a...

Hi all, I had lots of great advice on the joist situation of our chimney breast removal. That's been dealt with and we are now trying to work out the best way to repair the bedroom wall. It has raggedy brick sections and some cement render sections as well as a filled in old door which will have...

Hi, We had a structural engineer visit and tell us the wall we wanted removed was load baring. It was a 3m wall between kitchen and dining room, front to back, parallel with joists. He said it was supporting the timber frame wall above (2.2m in length, directly above) and a joist sitting...

Hi all, We are removing our chimney breast and are down to the floor of the 1st floor bedroom. The floor joists for the bedroom rest on the chimney breast below which is 1 block bigger for the joists to rest on. The joists run from the back exterior wall to the top of the chimney breast (about...

Hi, We are converting a double detached garage at the back of our garden. It will need building regs approval because of the size (45sqm) and being at the boundary on 3 sides. I am struggling with the roof - The open span of it (5.79m) is not even in the span tables so I am imagining we will...

We have a large, detached double garage that we'd like to convert into a hobby room (no sleeping or toilets). It has a corrugated metal roof on it at the moment which is in really good condition that I could reuse but it's been mentioned that it could sweat over the insulation/rafters etc and...

Hi all, we have just bought our first house and there is a chimney breast in the dining room that is hollow when knocked on. We would like to knock it down but will need to get surveyors In to let us know it isn’t structural. there is no breast upstairs (but there is a small gap and false walls...

Hi! We are buying a house and we believe this is artex but I'm kind of hoping someone can tell me its textured paint or something! Its flaking away in places. We'll have an asbestos check done when we get the keys anyway but I'm getting impatient and doing as much research as I can beforehand!