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    How deep can a wall scanner scan, if a wall scanner can scan deep? (For metal)

    I've searched a lot of reviews and videos but it's hard to find information that isn't about studs behind board. I'm doing the simplest of tasks - putting up some shelves into a brick wall between two joining chimney stacks in a converted attic. Working my way upwards I've suddenly hit something...
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    Someone wants to drill through my damp proof membrane. Should I let them?

    I've read a few related threads here but not quite answered my question. I have pretty limited knowledge about this stuff. I have a DPM that was put in on a first floor wall (not wholly certain I wasn't taken for a ride) and then plastered over. It's not decorated yet though so that's something...
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    Replacing nut on radiator - think the thread has gone.

    I took a couple of radiators off last week to redecorate. One has gone back on fine but the other I am having trouble with on the non-thermostat side. I'm not sure if the radiator has just been rehung at a very slight angle and the pipe is coming at it at not quite 90 degrees or if, as it seems...
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    Drilling through cladding to put up hanging baskets

    I bought a house which has a lot of cladding around the back. I hope that's the right term. Personally I find it ugly and wish it still had just the red brick underneath but it is what it is. I don't know exactly what you call this - I don't think it's pebbledash as I don't think they're any...
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    Cementing in for Engineered wood.

    Hi. Very limited experience here. I recently paid someone to put down new boards and joists due to damp. They left it like this over the old fireplace block. I don't know if that's a normal way to leave it or not. I'd expected him to board over it and had never really thought to raise the...
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