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I’ve had a new wooden framed building (6m x 4m) built and now I am starting to put items on the wall it’s apparent the ceiling is sloping. Height difference from floor to ceiling across the 4m width of the room is ~5cm. It’s most apparent around a small window and the TV on the wall. Is there an...

We moved into a house a couple of years back. It’s fair to say it was a 'doer upper' suffering from a few years of neglect. In an upstairs back bedroom is a damp patch on a wall that appeared whenever it rained with water running down the wall from underneath coving (the room is under a flat...

Trying to connect up the Honeywell relay box to a new vitodens 100 boiler but struggling! Anyone had any success? Thanks. 4 wire connection I believe?

I had new EPDM roof installed last year. Since installation we have had some issues with damp on walls under part of the roof. I have had roofer back and been on roof with him but we can not find any fault with installation. My thoughts have now turned to the parapet wall (urgh) which is...

Have a small leak around a glass dome and looking for a quick and simple fix. Can't find a definitive answer on t'web. Thanks

Couldnt find any answers under a search so to keep this quick and easy....Anybody used Aluminium coping? Easy enough for a diy-er? I have a parapet wall surrounding a flat roof which I am fairly certain is contributing to damp issues. Wall currently is double height standard brick with no...

Need 4m of 100mm pipe installed under a block paved drive. Linking an exisiting soil pipe to an exisiting inspection chamber. Been quoted between 1200 and 1500 for the work but as a fairly competent DIY-er I cant help but think this is a job I could manage myself. Any opinions? Time is always an...

Have searched this site but only seem to find how to fix Kingspan to the wall. I've done that bit! Now I am interested to know what type of fixing I should use to fix items (TV in this case) to it? Aiming for the stud work I guess doesn't work as this is some 50cm back behind the insulation. Do...

Hi, I have recently moved into a house with a single skin breeze block extension on the back. I have internally insulated downstairs using batons and Kingspan (many thanks to a great DiyNot post explaining how to do this). I am about to start on the bedrooms but in one room there is a...

Hi, My pipe run from kitchen sink to drain is very shallow. Am I allowed to use an external tank and pump ... Like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Waste-Water-Up-Lift-Tank-Grey-Water-112ltr-720-L-x-390-W-x-400-H-Autowaste-/201014706919?pt=UK_Campervan_Caravan_Accessories&hash=item2ecd6902e7...

Just had 2 large ceilings skimmed and only now having painted (after waiting 4 weeks) has it become obvious in some places the artex pattern is clearly visible still. Should I just expect this on a large ceiling or would you as a plasterer expect your surface to be completely flat? Will give the...

I have just had my flat roof relaid as a warm deck roof with EPDM. Having now ripped down the ceiling underneath (after discovering it was in too bad a state to simply skim) is there any further benefit to chucking some insulation above the new boards? A kind of boots and braces approach...

Looking for some advice here before I call the window company and make a fool of myself :D I have just had a set of 4 panel bifolds installed which all fold to the same side. When the doors are opened the chrome interior handle bangs up against the frame of the panel next to it. This...

Renovating house and needed to get under the floorboards upstairs. Under the carpet is as follows ... underlay, sheet brown paper, fibreboard then what looks like screed sitting on the floorboards. Could this screed be asbestos insulation? Would you have put this under a carpet upstairs? It...

I've tried to Google the answer but I might as well be running a random number generator for the amount of differing answers thrown back. Hoping this forum can be my definitive answer. So assuming you have the necessary 1:40 drop from pan to stack ... is there a max length? Cheers

I know its very difficult to price up on here but for a fairly good sized 5 bed detached property which is half flat roof and half pitched... The flat roof redone in epdm Firestone and 2 new electric Velux windows cut out and installed. Giving the roof a greater fall (as suggested by...

Soon to move into a house with a 15ft x 30ft in the garden. As much as I want to convince myself to keep it, a combination of running costs, small children, crap weather and its general state of disrepair means it has to go. Have found many sites in the US/Aus (funnily enough) with specialist...

We are in process of buying a house which we will undertake a fair amount of internal reconstruction on. One of which is to move kitchen from small room at the front into a more open plan design at the back of the house. I have solved most of the issues with electrics, gas, ventilation etc...

Once building work has been signed off do you get a physical certificate to keep on file or this all held at the local council?

We had an extension built 5 years back which meant the inspection chamber was now in the downstairs WC. I didn't really think much of it at the time but I realised some weeks after the inspection cover has been tiled over. One of those things I always meant to query and never got round to. Now...