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    Fake Chimney Breast - Fireproofing

    I'm adding a fake chimney breast to my living room which will hold a wall mounted bio ethanol fire: and above that, a TV. The finished thing will hopefully look look exactly like this: The fire itself will be bolted to the wall, with the chimney breast built around it. I've seen false...
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    Room-within-a-room Ceiling

    I have a 6m x 5m garage which I’m planning to use as a workshop for tinkering on cars, playing music, etc.. To keep noise down, I’m planning on building a sealed, timber framed room-within-a-room, clad with a layer of OSB and a layer of plasterboard. The idea being that noise generated in the...
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    Inline Fan Vent

    I've just noticed that the inline fan in my bathroom is venting straight into the attic... which would explain the dampness up there. It's also been piped in corrugated duct which was holidng about 500mm of water. Going to repipe it in solid duct and insulate it. Can I put my exhaust vent in...
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    Steel Box Profile Roof 'Fillers'

    I’m building a garage which has a box profile steel roof. The roof came supplied with foam fillers which go at the ridge (underneath the ridge cap) and at the eaves, but the supplier of the roof mentioned I could leave the eaves fillers out ‘to keep condensation down’. The garage is being...
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    Hitachi NR90GC Framing Nailer won't fire

    I’ve just bought a Hitachi NR90GC framing nailer off ebay, which was an hour up the road from me, so I picked it up in person. It’s used, in decent nick (the battery clip is broken but the casing all looks clean and in good shape) and advertised as working. Charged the battery, loaded some gas...
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    Sectional Double Garage Lintel

    I have an 18' x 20' sectional double garage - post and panel type, just like post and panel fencing - which I'm putting a PVC coated steel pitched roof onto. At the minute, the layout with the posts and panels forms a 'U' shape like so: o---o---o---o |.................| o................o...
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    Warm / Cold Garage Roof

    I'm building a garage which will have a PVC coated box-profile steel roof on top of wooden trusses. The ceiling of the garage will be insulated with 150mm mineral wool, then vapour barrier and 2 layers of 12.5mm plasterboard. The idea is to keep noise down as much as possible so I can tinker...
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    Concrete pumping in Northern Ireland? RoI? Use a Dumper Instead?

    I’m building a double garage / shed at the back of my house which will be 65’ (20m) from the main road with access through a ‘drive through’ garage (door at either end). I need 6m3 of concrete in the new garage base and I will only have 4 people total to do the labour and...
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    DPC when returning and keying garage door brickwork?

    I'm cutting the back out of my attached garage to make it a 'drive through' and the BCO has been out to OK things. There will be 450mm of internal blockwork left between the new door and the corner, which complies with the 390mm minimum dimension. When we talked about finishing off the...
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    Lifting a lintel with a Genie Lift - no room for legs?

    I'm taking out the back of my attached garage to add a rear door. There's a 10' high block wall supporting the roof and a brick outer wall which isn't supporting anything. My plan was to have the lintel sitting at the base of the wall, support the roof joists above with acrow props, then...
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    Blocking up window over garage door

    I have an attached garage which has a large double glazed window above the door. I'd like to remove the window and block up the space, without going to the expense and hassle of using brick. What can I do? The space is roughly 3' x 7' and I'd like it to look good from the outside so thinking...
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    Moving CH pipework underground

    I have an attached garage which has a utility area at the back of it, separated by a freestanding block wall (not supporting anything) and a doorway into the garage. I’m taking the wall down to free up more space in the garage and eventually let me knock through the back to make a ‘drive through...
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    30m² Internal Area (Building Regs) and Studwork

    I'm planning a double garage/workshop in my back garden which will meet all of the planning permission regs, but to save me the hassle of complying with building regs (most of it will), I want to keep the internal area below 30m2. I have a prefab post and panel type concrete garage which I'm...
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    Removing trickle vents - what to fill with?

    I am looking to buy some windows from gumtree to fit into my concrete post/panel garage. The problem is that the only windows I've found which fit have trickle vents on them. I need to fit the windows sideways to fit the gap, which means that the trickle vent will be vertical. I'm guessing that...
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    Drive through attached garage - copy front structure? (PICS)

    [Images added 200115] I have a 1970s bungalow on a long, narrow plot which has no access down either side, so I can't drive cars around the house to park in the rear garden. The house has an attached single garage 9' wide, with a standard 8' door and windows above that all the way up (11'...
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    Thread Repair on Gas Fitting

    I'm sure this thread will get flamed more times than a Universal Studios Stuntman, but here's my predicament: I removed my LPG gas fire to install a new fireback, and I'm now reinstalling it. It's a case of tightening one fitting and the fire is back in place, but I've managed to strip the...
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    Additional Heat Exchanger / Economiser on Boiler Flue?

    Has anyone had any experience with a heat exhanger (or so called "Economiser") which goes between an OFCH boiler and the flue stack? I've seen a home made system which was clamped onto the top of the boiler exhaust, with the original flue then slotted into it, comprising a stainless steel...
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