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    Skirting around bricks. Angles and Mitre Box - Confused!?! (Picture inside)

    Really confused about what angles and how I cut the skirting architraves. :unsure: I have probably the simplest Mitre box from Screwfix, and for some reason, cutting the angles doesn't seem to overlap at all. Youtube videos haven't helped. I am quite possibly being very daft and missing the...
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    6 en-suites with electric showers - How to keep it safe !?!?

    Mate is going to get rid of gas and set up a 6 Bed HMO with all en-suites and wants to makes sure he asks the electrician (& other trades?) the right type of questions / instructions so everyone is safe and it all works. There are two issues as far as I can see: High amount of electric load...
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    Complete Re-roof (Picture included)

    Its for the Yellow House - in Par, Cornwall The quote is £5500 for the following: External Roof - Strip roof - Correct rafters to carry Velux windows in line with the building regs (currently installed incorrectly) - Remove any rotten Rafters and replace with new timbers -...
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    What would you ask before...

    ...Going ahead with a quote on a roof replacement (leaks inside & outside looks rather poor). I will be getting 3 - 4 quotes from roofers who all seem to think the whole roof needs replacement My knowledge on roof jobs is about equivlant to Zero so I am not sure what it is I should be...
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    Common Sense when getting quotes

    Some builders expected to pop over to give a quote on a single story extension, moving kitchen, bathroom etc I am planning to hand them the: - Planning Permission Drawings - Building Regs Drawings - Very high level Schedule of works (Literally 6 bullets of the main stages) and ask...
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    List of works / Schedule of works for an Extension - where..

    We are having a single story extension done and moving the bathroom. Before getting quotes from builders, I want to put together a few pages on a list of works or stages. This is so all the builders can quote off the same list of specification and I can compare like to like. I have...
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    Roofer messed up? (coping stone on parapet wall)

    Long time reader but first time poster - go easy please :) We had a roofer put up some coping stones on a parapet wall around 6 months ago on the extension. 3 weeks ago, one of them fell into Neighbour's garden and then this week the remainder fell into the neighbours garden, luckily no one...
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