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I have a double garage and would like to convert one into another room. The dividing wall between the two garages is a cavity 4/3/4 block wall. There is a large opening in the wall approx 2 mts. I would like to cloe this gap, leaving just a normal door frame. There is a lintel over the gap so it...

Hi, Bought the above off ebay checked the motor when it arrived but not the blade clamping. I can't seem to get the blade to clamp and fully tightened can easily be pulled out. Its the model where the top is unscrewed which releases the blades clamps. Any ideas? Cheers

Hi, Laying an engineered foor in my lounge/dining room. The two rooms total about 7mts long and 3 wide. However they are divided at right angles by a large archway approx 1500mm wide. The walls that form the archway are a right angles to the line of the new boards. If I start laying one side of...

Hi, Could anyone tell me where the inlet filter is and what does it look like! Thanks

I have put a shower in a downsairs toilet. The soil pipe was cut off at floor level and a new 100mm connector fitted with a 40mm side inlet. Into this went std 100 mm T and into T went pan connector. Trouble is that the pan connector [about 450mm long] now slopes up so the T end is about 30mm...

Hi, I hope someone can help with a technical issue on the above. I have an existing brick built manhole with a right angled bend at the bottom made from salt glaze pipe. Its about 850mm deep. I need to join in to this to effectively make it a 'T' going with the existing flow. The new 100mm...

Hi, I have an extension on the back of the house and the original soil and vent pipe terminates inside the roof space. It appears to be capped with some sort of valve[?] arrangement. Does anyone have any experience of these, I thought they always had to terminate a certain distance above eaves...

We have moved into a house with a new looking Mira shower. However with the powr light on the shower lit up all seems ok. Press the start button and it trips. using a meter I get a buzz between neutral and earth on the heater tank. Any ideas?! Cheers, Dunc

Hi, Am renovating a house and there is a mono pitch roof over the extension. This around 12.5 degrees. I need to extend this do I need to use counter battens? The original plans said to use Anchor Centurion tiles, I can't find any info on these anyone heard of them?! The ones already on are...

Hi, I have a small roof to construct which has a hip. This will require a 7 or 8X2 about 5 mts long. If I can't get timber that long what joint is used please? Thanks, Dunc

Hi, Any recommendations for back box cutters, type and price etc? Cheers, Dunc

We are shortly moving to a house where the kitchen has to be moved. This is being moved into an extension [brick/block/screeded floors/pitched tiles roof/no current access to roof space!] The extension was built about 10 yrs ago and apart from a carpet is pretty much empty of services which will...