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Afternoon all. I'm currently building a patio in the back garden, its going about 3m from the house and across the back of the house. The house is on a slope so the back door is about 1m from the ground at minute, they means the patio will require an awful lot of sub base, approx 20 ton if I've...

Ah, thanks for that, makes it a lot easier to find, i assumed they were a plastic like the intumescent strips.

Hi all, I have got a replacement wooden threshold for the door between my kitchen and garage. The threshold has a groove in it, which I assume a weather/fire seal goes into, the one that came out is damaged and can't be reused, but I can't seem to find these seals anywhere? I bought the...

He left the Benchmark certificate and his company number on it. Thats the number I used, gave his name and Gas Safe said he was registered. I definately wasn't rude to him, I kind of demanded to know know what was going on, but I wasn't shouting. He seemed aggrieved that I'd phoned the Gas...

Ok thanks, Gas Safe have confirmed he is registered when I phoned them, they wouldn't tell me if he's done this before, but do they keep logs of complaints against fitters and would Gas Safe/council contact him for explanation? And secondly, assuming thats its all being installed correctly...

Hi, need some advice please. About 3 months ago, I had a new boiler fitted, using a Gas Safe plumber, at the end he said the certificate should come within 14days. After a few weeks, no certificate arrived. I phoned him and he said Gas Safe are being slow at the min, and it shouldn't be...

I am planning to convert the garage, have door bricked up etc, A builder today who came to give me a quote, after a lot of "umm...ing and errr...ing" said the wall between house and garage doesn't have any DPC, and therefore would have to be fitted. There is DPC at rear of house, so is there...

Can you use deck stain on internal doors? Doesn't seem to say anywhere you can't but wondered if it has different formula or has a chemical added for outdoor use? I have a door to replace and I can't seem to find a colour match to the varnish on my other internal doors.

Hi, I'd like some help with a Garage Conversion i'm going to do this year. I'm going to change the rear part of the garage into a Utility Room with WC and washing machine. The plans I've got so far is 1 course concrete block wall to separate garage, DPM on existing Garage floor, 100mm...

Not sure about the roof, will leave that to a professional, but world probably need access to his side to do stuff, which I guessing he will object to. If me or a surveyor puts in a report with pictures to dispute his objection to planning will they decide if the plans can be passed?

He says his garage was built first, and then mine was attached at a later date and as such mine doesn't have a wall, it uses his wall as a support. But inside my garage it does have a wall. There are 1 1/2 bricks on the outside and 1 on the inside, which would indicate a wall was built alongside...

Mine and my neighbours garages are adjoined on a 1935 house, my garage roof needs completely replaced (batons/boards & felt), and as the rear of the house has a pitch, I have decided to pitch the front to match, with a triangle of bricks on my side of the party wall. I spoke to my neighbour...

We just bought a 1930's house that had a kitchen extension on back of garage about 12years ago. The wall between kitchen and garage is a single skin breeze block wall. The kitchen is always freezing, and it was suggested that this maybe the cause. There is no room to insulate in the...