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Our builder is removing the external wall between our kitchen and garage. Two bolted steels are going across the opening (spanning around 2.2m). This is the corner of the house, so there is a steel post specified on the outside corner wall and on the other side it requires a padstone. The...

Long story short, having a nightmare with approval from the building control inspector and it's really holding up the build. We're quite far into a garage conversion project, thought we were at the stage where we could plaster, but booked in a visit with the building control inspector. He...

Hello, I'm in the process of having my garage converted. We're knocking through the kitchen to make the existing kitchen larger, adding a front bedroom/study and a shower room. (Please see attached before/after plans to show the rough outline). I currently have no mains alarms in the house...

Hello, appreciate this might not be the right forum, but looking for some advice... I just had a Vaillant ecoFIT pure 830 combi installed. It's all up and running after a bit of a faff (resolved with the help of this forum). That part is now fine. However, when I agreed to the install, the...

Hello, I know this has been asked a few times prior, but I want to be sure for my specific scenario... Just had a standard boiler swapped out for a new Vaillant Ecofit Pure 830. Old boiler was connected to a Hive heating and hot water thermostat. I was hoping to use this for the combi boiler...

Hi! I've installing some IKEA Method kitchen units as alcove cabinets either side of my chimney. All has gone well up to this point, but I just can't get one cabinet door to line up. I've tried all the adjustments but it's still nearly 10mm out of line! Everything is true and square, any tips...

Recently moved into a 3-bed semi detached 1960s house. There is a built-in cupboard in a bedroom on the neighbouring wall. It sits between the chimney breast and a wall that neighbours another bedroom. This is how it looked before I started any work: I removed the door and frame which opened...