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Hi, my brother in law has just recently taken on a small shop and I am doing the redecorating to get parts of the shop usable in stages, the shop is in two parts 8mx7m and 8mx12m. Part of the shop that is not currently being used has a security alarm fitted, the alarm is powered but not...

Hi Unfortunately although the loft is big enough for a full conversion with space for a permanent stair case, although I wouldn’t have been able to do an on suite bathroom. The value of the house after a conversion would have exceeded the ceiling price (in a good market) in the road by...

Hi I have done my research properly for loft conversions for occasional use; it really is occasional as the flooring is the old bare floor boards from the ground floor. It will be mostly for storing the boxes of too big & too small kids cloths etc for the next couple of years at least, until...

Hi I am in the process of insulating & boarding the loft, after raising the floor height to get in 250mm of Rockwool insulation, and put in a new 1.5m x .075m loft hatch. I was just considering the materials (and the cost) that would be best to use if I was to put some kind of ceiling on the...

Hi I am resurfacing am existing hard standing area with block paving, previously it had been concrete, and adding surface channel drains some of which feed into a soakaway. Dose any one know of a sensible way of connecting a 110mm pipe that comes from the channel drain to a 60mm perforated...

How do I go about moving this post the builders area. Building control seemed quite happy, as the inspector was on site for less than 5 minutes when I talked through what I was proposing to do. Combined drains is all that is available in this area, this is a refurbishment rather than a new build.

Hi I’m completely replacing my foul & ran water system right back to the first inspection pit, this is the easier option to making multiple connections into existing cast iron & clay pipe work. (It’s only one soil stack & 3m of underground pipe more than I would have had done any way.) I...

Hi I am a bit unclear on what height a shaver socket (with transformer) should be positioned when fitted in the bathroom. With the new 17th edition regs sockets & switches need to be between 45cm & 120cm of floor level, dose the height required for a shaver socket when positioned over a sink...

Hi In the next couple of weeks I will be undertaking the same task as IrishPhil of raising the loft floor, so I can add 170mm of rock wool insulation and board the loft using old floor boards to create a storage area. My house was built in 1939 but a little smaller than Phil’s, with 4”x2”...