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do i need a special super duper titanium drill bit or would a normal masonary style one be good enough?

Hi I would like to put a spring on my cast iron gate at the front of the house (to stop the daughter running into the road!) - everything I can find though has screw holes etc. Can I drill through cast iron to bolt it onto the gate/fence or should I be looking at something else? And if so what...

nope - can't do any of that. We live in a conservation area and they're very fussy about what is allowed. Hopefully they would allow this but we'll see.

Anyone used them? Are they any good? Due to restricted planning on our house, we're not going to be allowed a velux at the top of the stairs so I was wondering whether one of these is worth the money. Anything's better than nothing where light is concerned though isn't it?

our newish houses only got built on appeal [apparently] and this clause was inserted into the planning... "Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any order revoking and re-enacting that Order with or without...

Anyone use them? Got any stories to tell? They've come back with a very good quote and I was wondering if they're any good. Can they be beaten down on price at all? Ta Madge

That's basically it chappers. When the room will be 5mx5m, there would be maybe 50cm each side that is under 5ft ceiling height. Obviously a decent angle of roof. And the head height in the loft [at the apex] is about 3m - quite a high roof fortunately. so it would just be a normal curved...

We're planning to do a simple loft conversion and should be able to get a decent room of about 5mx5m. Everything seems okay but... My only slight concern is the escape Velux. As we already have dormers [it's a cottage style new build] the gutter is more than 1.7m from the existing 'floor' in...