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Thanks. Is this the one? https://www.wickes.co.uk/Bahco-PC-22-INS-Profcut-Insulation-Saw---22in-550mm/p/262380

I'm getting some pushback from the builder I've hired to install this. I settled on the 72.5mm Unilin Safe-R SR/TB to achieve a u-value that I think complies with building regs. He says he thinks 60mm insulation plus 12.5mm board is too thick. He's recommended thinner options. We talked about...

Thanks. Yes, it's just a single layer - not a cavity wall. Looking at CharlieDIY's comments on u-value, it looks like the 62.5mm Unilin Safe-R SR/TB achieves 0.33 on solid brick. So I think I'll need to get the 72.5mm one, which brings it down to 0.29. It's a shame to lose to much much space...

Hi. I live in a Victorian terrace house. I've got builders starting in a week. They're going to strip some damaged plasterboard off an external brick wall, which has been applied by dot and dab. I had a survey recently and the surveyor recommended adding insulation. This is the product I...

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I'm fitting 100mm acoustic insulation slabs into the floor of an upstairs room in my house. I'm laying the ring circuit cables on top of the slabs to protect them from overheating. But the cables for the pendant light in the room below are going to have to run down, straight through the floor...

Hi. I need to mark the centre of the ceiling of one of my rooms so I can hang a pendant light. The room is an almost-square rectangle with a chimney breast and alcoves. I'm planning to use 2 lengths of string, from corner to corner and see where they cross. Do I exclude the alcoves and base it...

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Hi. I've just stripped 2 lath and plaster walls, where the plaster was badly blown. I've taken them both back to the studs and packed the cavities with insulation. One of the walls (left in the pictures) isn't perfectly vertical. It's difficult to see in the pictures, but I've hung a plumb line...

That's great. Thanks.

Hi. I'm stripping the plaster off an old lath and plaster wall inside my house. I'll be left with bags and bags of rubble - mainly the scratch coat and float coat, made up of coarse aggregate and lime. (I'm separating the different types of plaster and the laths as I put them in rubble bags.)...

Thanks. Yeah, I suppose you're right. If I'm going to use plasterboard, I guess there's no point in saving any of the original lath and plaster.

@Koolpc, when you say rip it all off, you mean the laths and everything? Right down to the joists?

Hi. I've been stripping the skim coat off the walls in a room in my house. One lath and plaster wall is coming apart. I'm trying to take off the top layer of multifinish only. But I've ended up taking off the lime skim coat underneath and large areas of the brown coat as well. The scratch coat...

Thanks for your suggestions. Have measured up carefully and ordered my blinds.

Hi. I'm measuring up for blinds to fit on an angled bay window. The window is uPVC and I don't want to drill into the uPVC. The blinds I've chosen are 50mm wooden venetian blinds. I think screwing the headrail to the wall above the architrave might be too high and look odd. So I'm thinking of...

Hi. I'm trying to restore a Victorian front door that has cricket bat panels. It's supposed to look like this: https://www.doorsie.com/external-doors/islington.html The top 2 panels are missing. In order to replace them, I need to either make or buy the raised moulding in the centre of each...

Thanks. That probably explains it. I'd imagined they were available from mainstream DIY stores because I see at least a couple on every street around me, but perhaps not. Pretty much the only firms I can find that sell them are specialist security companies.

I can see lots of firms that do gates but very few options that either allow the postman access to the letterbox or include a built-in letterbox, plus include a lock rather than relying on a padlock. I see them on streets around me all the time so I'm surprised I can't find more options online.

That sort of thing. I did similar Google searches but couldn't find a suitable one that had an integrated lock and letterbox.