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    Insulating single skin bricked doorway

    Excellent. I have some liquid membrane knocking about, would that do?
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    Insulating single skin bricked doorway

    Tank the stud or the wall?
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    Insulating single skin bricked doorway

    I contacted building control, no probs with fire regs
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    Insulating single skin bricked doorway

    Thanks Already had the insulation and materials to hand so it’s cheaper to use what I had. The bricky dog toothed with the external wall Thanks
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    Insulating single skin bricked doorway

    Thanks in advance for your views I’ve had a brickie come and block up an external doorway. It’s a little scrappy as he had to finish from the outside only. I will fill any gaps in the mortar before proceeding. I’m planning on using the area as a utility area with a stacked washer and dryer. I...
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    Opening up a fireplace

    Any further views would be very welcome. Thanks
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    Opening up a fireplace

    Thanks for the info, the house was built around 1950.
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    Opening up a fireplace

    Hi I’ve started renovations of the living room, and want to open up the fireplace to renovate and add in a bioethanol burner. I’ve started the work and it is a small fireplace and no obvious lintel (though I’ve heard they can be quite high up. Key question - can I remove the blocks used to...
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Hi all Thanks for the advice, so far, so I've looked at the fuse box, and as I said before it uses MCB's. the mcb for the oven says B20 on it (there are two B6's and two B20's) so i assume this is a 20amp circuit. The terminal outlet box is metal and the earth wire from the old oven is...
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Thanks for the help There is a socket on the wall above the worktop, built into the control unit/cooker switch, however the lead which comes from the oven won't reach that far, and there are no other plug sockets that side of the kitchen. Is there a way to convert the terminal outlet box into...
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Hi looked at the oven and it says 2.8kw
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Last but not least the website says this about the oven Energy consumption with a standard load, top and bottom heating: 0.95 kWh. Energy consumption with a standard load, pastry function: 0.79 kWh. Thanks
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Plus the terminal outlet box is really just a terminal block in a metal junction box, this leads to a control unit which also has a normal plug socket Cheers
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Thanks Yes it may well have been 0.95kwh, I've not got the actual oven in front of me to check, I've got the manual here, attached are jpegs of two pages on installation As you can see they're pretty uninformative Thanks
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    replacing an old oven - wiring concerns

    Hi all I'm going to be replacing a very old oven with a brand new one which is much more energy efficient. The old oven has a rating of 2.9kw and the new one is 0.95kw i was planning on just swapping out the oven and wiring the new oven into the Terminal Outlet Box. Could there be a problem...
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