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    Advice on suspended floor and bare ground underneath

    Hi All I am planning on insulating my suspended living room floor with PIR boards however upon lifting a board to investigate and come up with a plan I'm greated with the following. I was hoping it was a concrete oversight which I could sweep and clear up to aid ventilation etc but it appears...
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    DPM and SLC

    Hi guys I need to uplift broken / loose marley tiles and screed the room in preparation for sheet vinyl. The subfloor under tiles has bitumin residue however there are parts where it's pulled this up and it's now just the old substrate. There is no DPM as house is from 1930. My question is...
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    Help with Kitchen / Dining room floor

    Hi guys Really in a pickle here and looking for the best solution. We want vinyl flooring throughout the kitchen / diner but the current floor which is made up of these cheap thin tiles (possibly asbestos but not sure) and some have lifted and in general the floor isn't ready for vinyl just...
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    Advice on new Kitchen wiring

    Hi Guys In the process of installing a new kitchen, got to the point now where electrics need doing before we can get it plastered. I will be getting an electrician in to do the work but before I do I was planning on doing the chasing myself so hopefully he can come and do it all in a day...
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    Kitchen electrics

    Hi Guys I understand that current regulation state that kitchen work is no longer notifiable unless installing new circuits. I am in the process of ripping out kitchen ready for a re-fit and about to undertake 1st fix electrics (not me personally, I will be using a friend who is a registered...
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    Best way to patch up floor

    Hi guys. Removed chimney and need to patch up hole in first floor. Seems straightforward but just wanted to check what the best solution is. Aa you can see the one joist rests on internal wall and the trimmer joist also rests on other internal wall. Would it be best to pack gap behind joist...
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    Chimney breast removal (tied in bricks)

    Hi guys Removing chimney stack from 1930s semi. Goes through middle of house and the roof and loft section has just been removed. How do I approach this next but where the bricks are tied into bedroom wall? As its every other row is it best to cut the bricks level with wall? Will this be...
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    Sinking socket safely

    Hi guys I need to sink the below single socket into wall but want to know best way. I've done 3 sockets in another room already so the actual labour part I'm fine with. I just want to check the best way to attack this one as the area I need to work on is underneath cable. It's fed from...
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    Raising loft floor above 200mm Rockwool

    Hi Guys Firstly im not a builder so I apologise if I don't explain it clearly. We have recently bought a 1930s house and we wish to board out the loft for storage. At the moment there is some very old rockwool (must be 70-100mm) between the joists, the joists are 70mm deep. On top...
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