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    Insulating a suspended floor (again)

    Afternoon Apologies, I know this has been asked so many times but can't find the specific scenario. 1920s detached house, suspended timber ground floor. Joists are roughly 120mm deep. I want to insulate between them. Government's best practice guide refers to cold bridging on 4 inch...
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    Fireplace supporting chimney breast?

    As the title really. I'm opening up a fireplace in a 1920s /30s house. It has the usual brick arch above, but as I'm opening it up I'm noticing cracks in the mortar above (which may have been there before and I'm just paranoid). Could this simply be due to banging about near it, or could the...
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    Subsidence?

    Afternoon all Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Just purchased a (detached) house which has previously had subsidence on one side due to dodgy drains. We're having issues with the drains on the opposite side, which appear to be leaking into the ground. They're in the process of looking...
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    Cavity tray for lean to garage

    We're moving shortly and as a stop-gap solution I'm proposing to construct a shed-like contraption on the side of the house, until we can get a proper extension built (2-3 years time probably) The external wall of the house will therefore essentially be internal (assuming I insulate the other...
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    Beko dishwasher developed a fault when not in use

    Make: Beko Model: DIS16R10_SL Morning Putting the kids to bed last night and suddenly the lights went out. RCD tripped. I'd done some plastering earlier in the day around one of the sockets in the kitchen so put it down to moisture, turned that circuit off and went about our day. Later in the...
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    RSJ sat on wooden lintel

    Morning all. A while ago I posted about having an extension done, RSJ's installed etc. These were installed last year and we're finally getting to the point of knocking through. One thing which has always bothered me, is that the builder that installed the RSJ (I-beam?) sat the padstone at one...
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    Reciprocating saw - cutting masonry

    Morning all. I'll soon be cutting out a large opening in an existing brick wall. We had a builder install the steels before Christmas and now we're finally getting round to opening it up (which we'll be doing ourselves). I've been looking at Stihl saws and the like, obviously hiring one as...
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    Cement mixer - car boot?

    Morning all, I'm looking at hiring a cement mixer. According to the gentleman on HSS' live chat, it'll fit in a car boot if the seats fold down. Now admittedly it's been a few years since I've stood next to a mixer, but I would've thought it'd be a little too tall to fit in a car, even...
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    External wall - 'extension' - question re: reusing footings

    Afternoon, A while back I posted regarding converting an old (single storey) coal shed into part of my kitchen. We've had the structural calculations done, and I've got on with demolishing the external walls of the coal shed. Then today it hit me. Foundations. I'm not altering the...
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    External wall RSJ - Amount of brickwork required

    Morning all. Just a quick one; we've had a couple of quotes for the installation of 2No. RSJ's to an external wall. This particular corner of the house is almost an L shape, with the RSJ's being inserted in the vertical part of the L. Presuming the length of this vertical part is 2300mm, how...
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    External wall - RSJ/concrete lintel

    Evening all. I'm in the process of buying a house. On one end of the house are two external coal bunker type structures (one next to the other, split by an internal wall). These have been built onto the side of the house, rather than into it. Our current intention is to knock through into...
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    Incomer & meter relocation - cost

    Afternoon all. We're in the process of buying a house and one of the first jobs we're planning is to knock through the kitchen wall into the adjoining bathroom to make a large kitchen/diner. Problem is, the cutout & meter are on this wall (at high level, in the corner). Ideally we'd have...
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