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Richard, Sorry, I'm not making things very clear. Its not an internal wall. I have a combined single glazed window/door frame at the back of my house which extends from the floor to within a foot or so of the ceiling. The whole lot sits on the DPC above the concrete floor/base. I want...

I'm pretty sure that it is the DPC and not the DPM. What I want to replace is a large window/door frame that makes up most of the back wall of the ground floor of the house (built in the late 60s). At some point in the past somebody has removed a bit of the lower part of the frame and bricked...

I'm planning to install a section of fully insulated timber framed wall to replace an uninsulated single leaf brick wall. I've a solid concrete floor, so fixing to to the floor will require the screws/plus to go through the DPC. When I spoke to the local building control office they said that...

DD, Thanks. No, I'm not increasing the size of the opening, just replacing what's in it, and re-arranging things a bit I had a good look last weekend by lifting floor boards, and there isn't a lintel above the opening so I went over to the council offices on Monday and had a word with a...

I'm thinking of replacing the single glazed door and window frame at the back of my house with double glazed units. The door and wooden window frame go from floor level to within about a foot of the ceiling. Above that, and on the first floor the wall is a timber frame with plasterboad...