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Hi all, Grateful if I could pick your collective brains on whether I will need to inform building control regarding putting a washer and dryer in the separate storage room in my garage. The building is block and render 8 x 5 metres, with the garage taking up 5.5 x 5 and the storage space...

Hi all, Grateful if I could pick your collective brains on whether I will need to inform building control regarding putting a washer and dryer in the separate storage room in my garage. The building is block and render 8 x 5 metres, with the garage taking up 5.5 x 5 and the storage space...

Hi everyone. I have a mid terrace property with a very narrow garden - it's 5.5 metres wide and 24 metres long. There are plans in place to build a large garage at the end of the garden, a cherry blossom tree smack bang in the middle and a patio next to the house I wish to keep. The rest is a...

I'm trying to get a garage 8 x 5 metres built. I got someone to draw up plans and they have said I need to build the foundations 1200mm deep and they have to be filled in bays and tied rather than as a trench. My builder has told me that this is going to increase the cost considerably - as the...

Hi, I'm trying to get a garage 8 x 5 metres built. I got someone to draw up plans and they have said I need to build the foundations 1200mm deep and they have to be filled in bays rather than as a trench - all of which seem a bit OTT to me. It's basically to protect the garages on either side...

Am finally fixing blinds to the back of my house having realised that the neighbours have been using our kitchen/diner as free entertainment for the past few months. :oops: I'm looking for a clever idea to secure the lath of the roller blinds to the window sill when the blinds are down. Has...

I have had a few estimates for getting power to my new garage. 3 sparkies said that they would tack the armoured cable to the fence running up the side of the garage, but the last one said it absolutely had to be buried in a trench in conduit with warning tape - which would mean digging a 25...

I’m getting a garage-come-workshop built at the moment and would like to run a cold water pipe from the house to the building. I have plans in the future to convert part of the garage to have a toilet and washing machine, but for now I’m just going to plumb in a sink. I’ve plumbed in sinks...