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    Positioning of External oil fired condensing boiler

    Hi everyone, Wondering if someone could tell me where to get this info. How far does the flue/terminal have to be from a neighbours boundary line? This is an external boiler fitted to the outside of a house (not mine). Can't find this in building regs? any links etc greatly appreciated, I need...
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    colour free fence treatment

    hi everyone, Well spring is here, finally got my fence finished at x-mas! Would like to treat it now, but can't seem to find a 'clear' treatment. I called ronseal tech line - I found a clear one by them - I don't mean the clear wood preservers you get as they're not suitable apparently on...
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    why no galvanised lost head nails?

    Hi everyone, yip still at it! last stretch now though! just wondering if I'm missing something here, but I cannot get galvanised lost head nails ANYWHERE in my neck of the woods, not even the building merchants have them. Can you actually get lost heads galvanised? They are for fixing close...
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    Frost Heave

    We have just been told about this, we thoroughly researched our fencing job and nothing came up about this! Our holes are 18" deep about 10/11" sq half filled with rubble and gravel rest filled with postfix, but we have 'haunced' the mix around base of post - as advised - to prevent soil rot...
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    Fence Posts have 'moved' after concrete is set?

    Hi everyone, We are a bit bemused by this. We set 4x4 timber posts with postfix. They were aligned spot on. Now, about 1 week later most of them have 'tilted' by about 2 or 3cm -maybe more- either to the side or forward or back. We used 1.5 bags per post - as opposed to 1 bag - posts are 240m...
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    fixing timber posts against 45ft long 2ft 8" high wall

    Hi everyone I have an approx 45ft long 2ft 8" high stone or concrete blocks wall that was built years ago by neighbour. I want to erect 7 6 x 4ft high panels adding to height of wall. Neighbour is happy for us to fix posts to wall. Wall seems totally solid. They are typical lap larch...
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