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So my composite front door is sagging a few mm and catching on the bottom edge of the door on the lock side. I have these type of hinges that have elongated vertical and horizontal slots. 3 hinges, all the same. My thinking is to slacken all 4 screws half a turn on the top and bottom hinges...

Is that OK with a wool, or wool-blend carpet too?

I would still have the screws on the carpet side... but I guess that might not be enough to stop it rising up on the other side. I wonder if some sort of glue could hold the metal down? Seems like it might be quite neat visually. Do you think I should trim the frayed edge of the carpet first...

Thank you, I hadn't seen those. If I stretch the carpet, is there a danger that it will also stretch the surrounding carpet and then the material on either side might be too long where it meets the walls? Or end up bunched up?

The carpet is about 5-10mm too short and over time has started to pull out of the threshold strip. What's the neatest/simplest way to deal with this? I've tried pulling the carpet hard to stretch it which doesn't really work. Perhaps the edges of the carpet are already too frayed. My first...

Thanks that is very helpful!

I've been left with a gully that isn't high enough for the level of our patio, see photo. It needs to go up roughly another 200mm. The end of the gully is male, going into a socket in the pipe below: The gully is made by Aquaflow. The pipe diameter is 160mm. I can't seem to find a...

Ah ha! Thank you so much!

Ah right, got you. So the narrow end of the round socket is less than 68mm because it has to slot inside the standard round pipes. Worth a try!

OK. What's weird is that you can buy these square-into-round adapters everywhere, but it looks like round-into-square does not exist. OK might try that, thanks.

That seems like it might work. I guess the hopper might look a bit odd down there (and my kids will probably dump leaves and soil into it!) but at least all the connections would be working like they should. So could be a workable solution. So it seems like people think the round to square...

But I don't think the narrow end of the round socket will fit over the square pipe (because on the diagonal the square pipe is wider than 68mm) or inside the square pipe (because on the smallest edge the square pipe is less than 68mm)?

Yep, bodging it is the idea. The underground drain there is a clay pipe and I don't really have the budget to ask the builders to dig it all up to replace that whole thing. So I'm trying to double-check that using the adapter I mentioned above is a feasible way to bodge it.

I've got square pipe sticking up from the ground, cemented in. And putting in new downpipe which I want to be round. I've seen these square-to-round adapters which are always shown with the square bit at the top. I assume they can be used either way around, I wasn't sure if there might be a...

He said to me the idea is that you have ventilation of the void above the plasterboard but not a lot of ventilation. So I am guess more of a trickle vent kind of arrangement, certainly less than you'd want in a cold roof. As I said, it doesn't really make sense to me as a solution. I'm mainly...

No standards. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me as I said. But just struck me as strange that 2 separate builders mentioned the same idea. One said he had been building roofs like that for years...

I've now had a couple of builders suggest to me the idea of an 'ambient' roof system for a flat roof, where you ventilate on the warm side. The idea apparently is that you have your insulation tight underneath the deck, then a gap underneath that, then plasterboard ceiling. This cavity above the...

Good idea. I will raise it with the builders. Thanks.

Good point, I hadn't really noticed that. The rubber apparently has a fleece backing which makes it more robust, I wonder if that will help with the tiles sitting on it? I'm not sure what I can get them to do at this point, since the height of the roof is set. Unless they were able to somehow...

Thank you! At least that is somewhat reassuring :)