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exessive in man hours, assuming 3 guys, 10 days... If I imagine 30 days work. I feel like 12m of footings and 7x3m floor shouldn't take more then 4 days to dig out. a day to extend an underground waste pipe a meter and a half. putting the concrete in, then doing the main slab/dpm/insulation etc...

Hi, I have finished clearing the site for a 3x7m single storey extension and I have got a quote for building the walls, foundations and floors. The extension is attached to the house on two sides so the total length of walls to be built are about 12m. We have been given 5 grand labour, this is...

thanks for all your replys, I will be contacting some electritions tommorow! at least I know the right procedure for the next house, and hopefully it wont turn into a very financially painful a lesson

and to clarify, we didn't get the work certified by a part p qualified electrition either.

well he is just a DIY'er and now after doing some research I have read how it needs to be done by an electrition with part p certification and the work needs to be submitted to local building controls ... or something like this. He just did it! so it was non compliant because we didn't do any...

Hi, We are in the process of selling our house. In our ignorance we asked my father (a DIY'er) to install a new shower and underfloor heating in our bathroom as well as running some new sockets in our kitchen. We are only now aware that this was non compliant with building regulations...

Hi, I have recently laid a concrete slab for the floor of my garage to sit on. I will be using cement and sand to lay the quarry tiles ontop of this, but is there any thing I need to do to the slab first ? It has a DPM under it but I was wondering if I need to use a water seal on the slab...