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Hello All, I would be very grateful if you could share your thoughts on the dilemma I am facing. I have a small lean-to roof (porch extension), one plane, no ridge tiles. Rafters length is about 1.8m. Roof pitch is 22.2 degrees. I was planning to install Marley Ashmore interlocking tiles...

Hello, I'm thinking about installing Geberit Duofix toilet frame (height 112cm). I have a vertical clay pipe opening in the floor (10cm diameter) that is about 18cm off from the center of the planned frame position (please don't ask me why, this can't be changed). I was researching intensively...

Concrete ground floor. No DPM. Cavity wall with bitumen dpc. Screed with ceramic tiles laid on it. House built in 60's. The screed touches the wall above dpc in many places. Please take a look in the album: //www.diynot.com/network/lookieluke/albums/23283 where I uploaded a few...

When renovating a guests' toilet I found, after removing ceiling plasterboard, a rather large hole in the inner blockwork behind the joist adjacent to the wall. The hole has a bunch of electrical cables going through it and obviously the cables run into the cavity. The main goal of the whole...

Hi, I have a quick question. I need to replace a few DENSE concrete blocks in the inner leaf of a cavity wall (house built in 60's). Is it ok to replace them with standard aerated ones (3.5N/mm2)? Many thanks in advance. Luke

Hi All, I would like to repair an internal bearing wall around the corner after removing some plumbing mess. The house has cavity walls with the internal wall made of concrete blocks (house in the UK built in 60's). I would like to replace 4 concrete blocks (and 1 brick) as shown on the...