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Hi I'm trying to build a quote for a customer to remove a chimney breast from a bungalow. I spoke with my local building control and they said I need to submit a building notice with a cheque for £421.20. A local structural engineer has asked for £420 to do the calcs. That's £841 before I've...

I've started to dig a soakaway and got down about 600 when I found pea shingle and a pipe, either storm drainage or sewer I'm not sure. Anyway do I need to move the soakaway or can I have this pipe running through it.

I'm currently searching for home extension leads and am considering writting to architects and offering them a financial insentive for any leads they send my way. If the architect sends a customers to me and I price the job, and get the job, I would pay them either a set fee or a small % of the...

I've been working for myself now since May 08, I generally only do brickwork/blockwork, masonary ect, although recently I've completed a couple of extensions from start to finish. I've been working on getting more leads for extensions but I'm not sure my sales letter that I'm sending out is...

I'm going to block pave my front drive and need a little advise on material quantities. The area is 34 meters sqr, Basically I intend to excavate down 200mm then fill 100mm with type 1, 50mm sharp sand and a 50mm paving. I know how much tpye 1 and sand I need although the quantities are...

I'm a brickie and have been building an extension to my house. I plumbed in four new radiators straight from the 22mm flow and return. One up stairs, three down. Now when I turn on the heating, all the original rads work (3 upstairs, 1 down). The new rad upstairs works, but the three new...

I need to match a marley bold roll tile, apperently they've stopped making this tile now and I'm stuggling to find a tile that will interlock the weather channel properly. The Marleys I have on my house are teracotta but I'm not to bothered about a colour match so long as they are reasonably...

I need to replace my old fuse box and a sparky told me I might need to have it placed low on the wall. Due to new regs regarding wheelchair users the new box should be only 1 meter from the floor. I'm a little concerned as I have two young children and the last thing I want them fiddling with...

Can anyone tell me if I am able to use an lbc facing brick in a concrete block wall. I've built a small 2 story extension and on the first lift of blockwork I use a single course of lbc bricks to get to floor joist height. I have already layed the floor, built the second lift and put on the...