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Howdy, I'm hoping to start boarding my loft soon, and will be probably insulating at my rafters and removing the existing wool insulation at ceiling level. My 1960s loft has hangar beams, only about 1.5 metres apart, on top of only 2x4 ceiling joists. So I'm confused how best to structure the...

I'm looking at insulating my conservatory roof sharpish as a 2nd long winter of it being my office does not appeal. Looking elsewhere I've ordered 15m2 or SuperQuilt, and I'll be sandwiching it, stapled, between two lengths of 25x38 roofing lath, fixed to the existing uPVC frame. Then I'll...

I installed a loft hatch today, and in the process found that the joists on either side are at different heights, an entire inch apart! I'm looking to board out the loft in the new year, with 2x4's across the existing joists and insulate and all that good stuff, but now I've to work out how to...

Howdy, I'm looking to connect two radiators to some 15mm speedfit pipework. I will be taking the pipework through joists in one case, and in a channel in screed in the second. I want to then go vertical with the pipes, buying them behind plasterboard, and coming out of the wall straight into the...

Hi, I'm looking at getting a Roca hidden cistern, which is only 78mm thick. I'd like to bury this in the external wall of an ensuite, below a window opening, as per this video... But a cavity wall doesn't really match what they show there - i.e. bolting it onto a wall around 100mm behind the...

Howdy, I've a new extension with 5in rafters and upstairs ceiling joists, connecting to an exist loft with 3.5in rafters and ceiling joists. I need to insulate all over really. 100mm of old stuff on most of the existing roof and want to progress towards having better (i.e. wife friendly) loft...

Hi, new extension build and I'm left with window openings still showing all the wall cavity insulation, nothing blocking the bottom and sides (lintel on the top). My plasterer says he sometimes just covers the side gaps with a decent blob or plaster adhesive against the outside brickwork and it...

The doors in my house always feel kinda crappy. they don't close nicely, feel thin, feel cheap etc... As I'm about to fit new ones in my own stud walls and the likes, it occurs to me there's a number of factors going on, and I don't know what really matters. I have reasonable solid pine doors...

Hi, I want to build a triangular cupboard into the corner of a room, 1m sides, full room height. For studs on the wall, do I still just use 2x2 etc., or am I better off getting something with a 45 degree angle in it? Off hand I'm aware of 3in Arris rails which are exactly the right shape, but...

Hi, My ex builders have left me with a concrete floor, sitting on 100mm of polystyrene, with the damp course at that poured height. The floor is, on average, 40mm below the floor to which it needs to marry up in some form. What do I do next? Fairly sure I want to put down a thinnish layer of...

Building my first few stud walls currently and it seems to be the way that you fix a top joist to the ceiling and then uprights to that. If I have a stud wall going perpendicular to my ceiling / loft joists, wouldn't I be better off fixing the uprights directly to them, and then add noggins at...

Howdy, I'm looking to fit my own upvc windows soon and thought I had everything I need, however I am wondering if the 100mm and 120mm bolts I have will be suitable. I have these... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OBFVT7S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RgRPzb0FGD70Z The bricks my walls are made of have...

Howdy, I've an extension coming along as pictured, and I'm always looking for more space, more for an en-suite, more for storage... and coupled with the fact that we're having the left side of the downstairs wall removed to have a huge kitchen / diner I'm taking one small thought to another and...

Hi, New extension going in with an En Suite. I'll need a new soil pipe with it, but realised there's already a gutter drain near enough to it. I've been trying to work out if it's connected to the sewer, without as much proof as I think I need... I put a hose down the drain and after a while...

Hi, I'm going to be removing part of my kitchen wall as part of an extension. My old back foor and 1.5m of wall next to it are to go, with some form of RSJ put in it's place I presume. My former builder has exposed the joists as in the attached photo, you can hopefully make out the joist right...

Hi, My new extension has brought the current Worcester SI boiler flue inside (red in image). It's still close to the great outdoors though, and if I were to turn the flue bend to go through the side wall rather than the back wall it's mounted on, and pass through a 1m wide toilet, I can exit...

Hi, Could someone possibly tell me what I'm looking at in this photo and if I can do what I hope I can with it? http://imgur.com/eYWwAnZ Obviously it's a smart meter for a second feed into my house intended for a downstairs toilet only. I'm replacing the toilet and renovating. So I need to...

Hi, I tried replacing an existing, and very dated, Honeywell room thermostat with a new one, the maker of which escapes me now, but seemed like a decent enough piece of kit. [Well, to be honest, my father, an electrician for 30 years had never heard of them...] We found though, that as soon...

Hi, I've a radiator cover with an MDF screen (this - http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10797730&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=0&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=mdf+screen&fh_eds=%C3%9F&fh_refview=search&ts=1269679655174&isSearch=true) and have been...

Hi, I need to work out some way to get my Sky cables (two full size ones as the engineer said it was better and more felxible than a lower profile twin cable) and a power cable across a doorway. Tacking around the outside of the door frame is really unappealing, especially as the cables are...