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    Edge Bead needed on plasterboard for revels ? (where board meets UPVC frame?)

    Hi guys, BACKGROUND New UPVC french doors have been fitted, and have plastic cavity closers fitted to the vertical reveals (the horizontal, top one, is a steel lintel, with keying gooves. I need to plasterboard all the reveals. For the verticals (where cavity closers are), I intend using...
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    Repair of timber sloped firring/fillet

    Guys I am looking at the second flat roof on the property , and all of the firrings (aks fillets) [the sloped timber cross beams that go across the kists, and give slope to the flat roof), are all rotten within the first 6 to 9 inches. Further along, from , say the 12 inch .. 18 inch point...
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    Advice on 6.5mm Concrete Screws - pilot hole / powered screwdriver

    Guys I bought some 6.5mm (100mm long) concrete screws (which came with a free Torx T30 "bit). I decided to do some tests on some old masonry (before I do the "real" job. Glad I did, because when drilling Pilot holes with 6mm SDS masonry drills, I found that the screws would only reach about...
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    Flat Roof - should Fasica top be same leel as top of OSB ? or should OSB "extend" and fascia go underneath

    Flat roof install, DIYer. I haven't yet put the new OSB on, and when googling, I found some images where the OSB seems to extend out, and the fascia board is under the OSB, and others where the top of the fascia board (uPVC 18mm thick - from eurocell) is level with the upper surface of the OSB...
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    Do I need 63mm nails for 18mm t&G OSB board ?

    Hi guys - am going to do a flat roof repacement for my extension. I have sort of settled on 18mm OSB t+g for the boards. Question is, do I really need 63mm nails for this ? If so - it implies a "Pasload" type nail gun, which are pricey (circa) £500+. Thoughts?
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    Floor Screed over a Cavity ? (New French Doors replacing Cavity Wall)

    Background: Old Cavity wall (which had a single door in it), has been removed, ready for fitting new wide french doors. The brick course where the door cill+frame will go has had to be "shaved" by 15mm, to allow the frame to fit (after helpful advice on here). [Note - on the photo, the bricks...
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    Is it ok to Nail into the EDGE of OSB 3 18mm T&G (for Fascia/drip batten)

    I am replacing an old flat roof. It is ply, but I am going to use 18mm OSB. Currently, the Fasica boards are nailed into the joists (fine ?), and also into the edge of the ply board. The drip edges (drip battens I think they are called), are also nailed "through" the top of the fasica boards...
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    Lintel(s) [and technique] - advice needed

    I have a 3.6 m x 3.6 m single storey outbuilding, and am planning on installing 2 x 2.5M sliding patio doors in the north and east walls. The wall construction is cavity wall (brick outer, aircrete block inner. The aircreate block skin has a single course of bricks on it at the very top. [I'm...
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    Will 43cm x 27cm corner be ok when installing 2 x french windows

    I have a single storey, 3.6 m x 3.6 m outbuidling, with 10 , 4x2 joists running north / south. I am looking to install two large (identical) sliding french windows in the north and east walls (i.e. - corner orientation, not on opposite walls). I will put a lintel under the (north) load bearing...
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    Wiring Confusion - Wall Thermostat (See Images)

    Hi guys I am attempting to replace my old Honeywell rotary wall thermostat with a newly purchased Horstmann one. My problem is I don't know which wires go where, so I've tried to show the "old" wiring (together with diagram), and the new wiring. OLD WIRING: The photo above shows...
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    Advice on wiring when replacing old Central Heating Controll

    Hi Guys I have a very old "Landis & Gyr" mechanical Central Heating / Hot Water controller in the airing cupboard, which controls the central heating and hot water, in terms of when they come on, and turn off. It's become tempremental #(and getting worse), so I think it's high time I...
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