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We have a room sealed oil boiler and when it was moved the only place it could go involved the flue outside too near to the utility room window. The solution agreed with building control was to seal the window so it could not be opened and allow fumes in the room from the flue. The agreed...

We've just had an old scullery/workshop/coal store/WC knocked into one room and extended to the front. The new extension has a dpc in the floor but the old part (90% of the room) does not. The building inspector asked us to give the floor two coats of a rubberised bitumen solution and spread...

Thank you. I think I'll try the long straight edge first and see how I go.

I have just had an extension and knocked several tiny rooms into one to create a kitchen breakfast room. The floors are all concrete and quite uneven. I am planning to lay natural slate tiles on top, which are themselves very uneven thicknesses. It has been suggested that I use this to my...

Thank for all the help. http://www.safensoundltd.com/ came up trumps providing exactly the parts needed. They apparently buy up spares when production is stopped and even though the item I needed wasn't on their website, they had them. Highly recommended for their customer service too...

Thank you for the welcome and the information big-all. I have emailed photographs to the site you recommended and hopefully they'll come back with something. In the meantime my ever resourceful mother has made a temporary bush out of wood so the door isn't skewed in the frame. I'm not...

My parents have a 20 year old PVC double glazed door from Astraseal that now has a new double glazed conservatory on the other side of it. The door slides but also tilts and turns so you can have it open for air (not really used now the conservatory is there). Although both pensioners my Mum...