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Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking of knocking a load bearing wall down in my kitchen and making a kitchen/dining room. It's s standard 3 bedroom semi built about mid 60's. I understand that it will need an accurate calculation by a structural engineer to ensure the correct size of RSJ is...

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Hi Folks, Just a quick question, can anybody tell me roughly what size pad stone/nub I will need for an RSJ spanning 12ft. Thanks SB. [/code]

Evening Gents, I'm looking at buying a 2nd hand UPVC door. However i have a problem, the door including sill is 2095mm high and my opening is 2085mm high. Is there anyway in which i could get in to fit? Many Thanks SB

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to machine some off as I want plasterboard both sides. Should taking a 1/4" off be enough? SB

Hi Folks, Just a quick question. I need to pack the side out on an internal door casing. Its about 2 inch to pack out each side which is fairly easy. However i'm unsure what depth i need to pack out? The door casing is 4 1/4" depth, would 4" dressed be okay to allow room for the plaster board...

Hi Folks, I've been looking for a second hand upvc door on ebay, i've finaly found one but its not quite wide enough. At the moment my door is 1370cm and door ive found is 1345cm so need to pack it out a bit. Does anybody have any tips or advice on how i can go about this? Many thanks SB

Evening Gents, At the moment my front room and dining room are all in one, what i'm planning to do is make an arch to divide them both. would i be better off by blocking up and putting a beam up or would i be better off making a wooden frame? If so how do i go about carrying out this work? Any...

Hi, I've taken your advice and decided to go down the lawn side. The holes are nice and neat and haven't damaged the lawn one bit!! Now for the next question, I've decided to do a hit and miss fence using 6" boards with 4" gaps to allow the wind through, the length of my fence will be 17', i'm...

Many thanks for all your help. With a bit of luck this is the wall i'm on about. If i put post up one side it's going to look horrible with the posts showing and i won't get posts long enough? If i go down the other side i'm gonna have to dig up my lawn? It sounds like the boltdowns are a none...

This is the stone wall i was thinking about using bolt down post anchors on.

Hi Thermo, Many thanks for taking the time to reply. The fence is going to be 6' running down to 5'. I've been thinking about ways to get round it but have no option to put it on top of the wall. Thanks SB

Evening Folks, I need a little bit of advice. My next project is to put up a close board fence in my front garden, easy you might think? Here's the problem, I wish to put the fence on top of a wall thats about 17" wide, the wall is made of stone and the top is NOT LEVEL. I was hoping to use...