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friends next door neighbor just got burgled and so now looking to install a Alarm.broad daylight opportunity theft as they just broke bottom rear door panel an stole money and jewelery left all the laptops ect they want to be phoned so looking at the yale HSA6400 which is £175 plus another...

need to render a thermalite internal wall have read up on it and a bit confused. was going to wet wall and put on a 5to1 diluted pva mix then when its tacky start to sand/cement render ,but have read of people putting on two coats, one on the day before then 2nd when they render. Are two...

going to be sand cement rendering internal walls next week for first time and after reading up seems thermalite are a pain to get a good adhesion to and hollow out very easily. After reading up on it now confused as to which is best way to do it? some site say the thermalite have to be...

going to be laying ptg softwood floorboards on a beam an block ground floor. so will be block floor, 75 mm kingspan then 2"by2" batons to fix flooring to . i'm not sure if the 2 by 2 will sink into kingspan so was wondering if it would be advisable to use a sheet on 6mm plywood or hardboard on...

went to put in a bow window today and couldn't work out if it needs to be set back the 30mm into the cavity that normal window are now required to be. have tried to read up but cant find any info relating to bow windows and building regs all the other windows where not to hard to do but...

i'm hoping to be able to fit a 4 frame rehau bow window myself but cant find any information as how to do it and intuition is no help. have fixed frame adapters to frames but cant work out how to fix frames to bay pole as drilling through frame into pole seems the only way, below is an...

on monday have to fix in 150mm window straps to thermalite blocks and wondered whats the easiest fixings to use. have about 150 straps to fix with 2 fixings each one i don't fancy using plugs for them all but masonry screws seem a little over the top for thermalite blocks so wondered what...

Going to be attempting to flash chimney this week on to shire pantile .have found lots of useful info for flashing slate an flat tiles but very little on profiled tiles. this is going to b e my first attempt flashing pantiles have done my slate roof a fair few years ago and that seemed so...

hello having a chimney built its a concrete linear with vermiculite infill to chimney stack, read on the bag the vermicuite comes in that it can be used with cement mix for infill ,the bricky however says that on all the work hes ever done on chimneys they always pour the vermiculite straight...

just had a quote for doing all the electrics in a new build house in norfolk which is more than i was expecting . £3400 for approx :CU, 50 sockets , and 15 lights+switchs i know people are going to say thats reasonable but its a lot of cash still . :( I was hoping to be able to get someone to...