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Gents, a quick question. My house is currently being re-roofed and the (scottish) build up is rafter, sarking boards, breathable membrane, counter battens, tile battens, concrete tiles. All was going well and the roof was stripped, new membrane put up and counter battens on. Then I...

Hi all, At the moment my house is being re-roofed. The current build up is rafters, sarkin boards, felt, battens, concrete tiles. The new build up is rafters, sarkin boards, breather membrane, vert battens, horiz battens, concrete tiles. My question is, if I insulate the roof to suit...

Hi All, I'm building a garage that will be almost on the boundary line between my house and my neighbours. It will be stepped back 50mm from it. Due to a soil build up on their side (the house is built on a slope) one of my walls needs to be tanked etc. I know that under the party wall act...

I moved into this 1970s house last year and have just started on the alterations. Once the joinery work is done the next phase is an attached 1.5 car wide garage and roughcasting the whole building as the dry dash is a mess. So, starting with the garden... It was a complete mess, every...

Folks, Spent a good of time ripping all the trees, bushes, turf etc out of my garden and it's now time to start putting it back together. I measured out the area and ordered 13 Tonne topsoil to hopefully pack it up to the right elevation. I got my first 3 Tonne and I've started with the...

I've got a 1970s house with all the external walls covered in dry dash render. I'm looking to replace it with something a bit better looking, either with the stones in the mix (smaller stones too) or a smoothish/slightly textured render. It'd be good if the colour was part of the mix so it...

I've got a EcoLED downlight to be installed above my front door which will replace the 20+ year old UFO look a like that's currently there. The 'roof' of the porch where the light will go into appears to be chipboard that's had a 2-3mm skim of cement on it. I need to drill an 86mm hole for...

Fella's, I've finished drawing up my garage and had decided on internal tanking but I'm looking for second opinions. The garage is 10m long and the adjacent properties ground level starts 200mm above my FFL at the front and ends up 800mm above FFL at the rear. The houses are built on a hill...

Hi fellas, I'm trying to plan out the drains for my garage and I'm looking for a bit of help. My house was built in the 70's and I'm 99% certain it has a combined drain/storm water pipe run. My reason behind thinking this is that there's only one manhole and under the cover only one...

Guys, I'm looking to re-route my sky/tv cables due to an impending lean to garage build. At the moment they exit the house underneath the eaves and run up the tiles to the dish/aerial. In readiness for the build I want to install a roof tile flashing with a u-bend at the top of it to...

Folks, I'm drawing up plans for my garage at the moment and have a question on vertical expansion joints. The garage will be constructed out of 215mm blocks and one side is acting as a retaining wall (it's going to be built against the boundary line with next doors ground level being higher...

Folks, I'm at present drawing up my replacement garage and I'm trying to decide the best way to build it. I want it to be a 'comfortable' workshop for when I'm working on my car etc hence the insulation etc. Originally I was going for a cavity doubled skinned block wall as shown in my...

Guys, I'm drawing up my replacement garage at the moment and I'm not sure what way to go with the DPM/DPC. The garage is on the property boundary line, as the street is built on a hill the soil level of next doors property will be higher than my garage FFL. At the other sides within my...

I've started drawing up a replacement garage but I'm not sure what way to go with the DPC/DPM. I'm a structural draughtsman to trade so I don't know much about the wood and bricks side of it! The garage FFL will be a good bit below the houses DPC (approx 600mm ish), what would you recommend...

Hi fellas, I'm at present planning to put a garage onto the eaves side of my house. From memory there are 5 existing airbricks in the house (over a 9.5m long stretch of wall) which would then vent into the new garage. The previous plans done by an architect show 2 airbricks, 1 at the front of...

Its an old picture now (the tiler who's been in is doing a blinding job!) but I wondered what the flooring is called thats in my bathroom. Is it just floor board? Chip board? It doesn't seem to stain or swell when water is spilt on it so I'm not sure, you can tell I'm pretty gash at this DIY...

Well hey it isn't much but I'm fed up of looking so hopefully someone knows where to get em! Its (hidden) bath feet and I've misplaced one somewhere!

I've started ripping out the bathroom in my flat as I didn't like the tiling so it started off my removing the existing tiles/plasterboard and refitting new board. Along the way I've encountered and fixed other problems such as wonky partitions that I've stiffened, a cantiliever sink that...