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Any guidance would be appreciated - tend to overengineer/overthink projects but am faced with slowly building a garden room (30m2 timber frame with flat roof) on an insulated slab with 150mm mesh reinforced concrete. It will have an open fronted covered outdoor kitchen to one side which I want...

Hi all, Hope someone can help, desperate to sort this before christmas and can't find a local builder at short notice. I have a concrete area where old porch was (now internal space) the rest of house is suspended floor. I have some cold bridging which I suspect is causing some localised damp...

Hi All, In a nutshell the long haired general wanted hall stairs n landing refurbed for christmas but as usual I'm hitting problem after problem. Can anyone offer any advice? The house is 1930s detached, lime mortar plaster etc. The first image shows where a suspended floor meets a screeded...

I am in the process of laying a new patio and wanted to build a couple of raised rendered block planters in two of the patio corners (simple square patio 4x5m). I was planning on making them around 3ft high but would like to fix a bench seat between the two using 6x2 joists then capping that...

Hi all Wondered if someone can give me some peice of mind before I board this deck. I am in the (slooow) process of building a floating deck (4.8m x 2.6m)and I have realised I should have put the double joists that fasten to the support posts in the oppsite direction (perpendicular to the...