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hi all, It’s been a while since I have posted but I return to my favourite place for advice. For various reasons (including an almighty cock up by the company supplying our glass roof)! I need to prepare our floor for insulation and underfloor heating. Whilst I have tried to keep the rain out...

Hi all, Due to various miss communications I now find myself needing to externally insulate and counterbatten a pitched warm roof (it was meant to be a cold roof but its a long story). Therefore we have 50mm rigid insulation and 50mm x 38mm counterbattens. The counter battens obviously need...

Hi all, After some advice. We are building a Timber frame house and facing the outside with blocks which will be rendered with the Monocouche XF system. The blocks themselves are not load bearing. We are getting some conflicting messages in regards to the type of block we should use. The...

Hi all, I have just discovered that my concrete upstands, sitting on top of my block and beam floor for my timber frame are 150mm high by 140mm wide (frame is 140 wide). Obviously the width is fine but does this mean that every block is going to be have to be cut down to size - I cannot find...

Hi All, Just wanted to ask a question - we had numerous conditions on our planning permission and all but one has been released. The one that isn't released is basically the council signing off the Bat Licence that Natural England have issued. We have submitted the application to release it but...

hi all, appreciate the help in advance. I need to make a standpipe for the builders that meets WRAS regulations and will be inspected by the water company. I have sorted out everything except one item. An in-line drain cock! I don’t know if I am being daft but I can’t find one. Can anyone...

Hi - I think I am going to be on here a lot over the next year. So I need to get some quotes for scaffolding. We are having a timberframe, the timberframe company will let us know what they want / need but the scaffolding company need to know all the lift heights we need (for all trades)...

Hi all, thanks in advance for any responses. We have had planning approved to build a new house. They have removed PD rights for extensions, roof enlargement and outbuildings. It is our belief that these conditions are not reasonable or necessary. At the same time we have just won an appeal on...

Hi all, thanks in advance for any responses. We are about to build a new build two storey timber framed house. We had always thought we would be using wet underfloor heating on the ground floor with Radiators upstairs and wet underfloor heating in the bathrooms (3) upstairs as well, with towel...

We are looking to use this product to build some small retaining walls in our garden. I have been in touch with Tobermore and they provided me with my local stockists. I need 7 pallets of the blocks and the local company based in England have quoted me £305 plus VAT a pallet. I happened to find...

Hi all - looking for some advice on what trade really. We need to build a retaining wall - its job will be to replace an existing delapedated structure that holds up between 50cm and 75cm's difference between us and the neighbours. My thoughts are that the best way to achieve this - access is...

Hi All, Not sure if this is in the right forum however... We are about to embark on a building project. Basically we bought a bungalow and we want to turn it into a house. Currently the designs are coming up short (to what we want and size) and the concerns we have is we have one chance to get...

We bought a project house late last year - we have finally managed to clear the garden of the 6 massive conifers that had been allowed to grow too large - our neighbours are very grateful of the new light. Next step for me would be to have two of the stumps ground out and then start to level...

Just a quick one here hopefully. We recently had a boiler fitted, as part of the job we asked him to fit our gas cooker which as he said was a quick job and he was onsite he would do. It was a bayonet fitting and pipe onto new cooker. A day after fitting we kept noticing a gas smell (boiler...

Hi all, Well in December we moved out of our beautifully restored 3 bedroom 1825 cottage and into a 1950's 2 bedroom bungalow. Which will become our house - what it will be I am not sure. We may utilise what we have and extend, or we may knock down and rebuild. I will upload some photo's of...

We have just moved into our new project, on Saturday I spent the day sorting out the airing cupboard after the hot water tank had been removed. Before I put the shelves in I wanted to get the plumbing set up for the shower. I located the hot and cold pipes, cut into them, tee'd off and drilled...

Not sure if this is the right place but seems to fit best here. I am looking for some flat pack furniture shelf fittings - I first came across them on a Homebase kitchen larder unit about 5 years ago. They have screws that attach into the side of the unit and then a plastic fixing that pushes...

Hi all, The PCB on this Induction Hob has failed, on removing the glass top to replace it the warming plate in the centre of the hob sprang off its clips. Can anyone advise if the heating element is directed upwards or downwards - the parts diagram seems to suggest downwards but I am not...

We are in the process of buying a run down house, which to be honest will mainly be knocked down in about 9 months. However as funds are restricted we are going to have to live in it whilst we go through the planning process. To this end there are various things that we need to do in order to...

Hi, I wondered if someone is able to help me. We have a wall in our lounge which was knoced down by the previous owners. However they didn't do it fully and opening has 2 foot walls on each side of the opening meaning it still devides the space in 2. We would like to look at getting...