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Hi, I'm attempting to tile a hip roof. What i can't work out is that some of the tiles when cut are not able to sit on a batten so just kinda rest on the overlap from the tile to the right. Inevitably they will slip so there must be some way of clipping these in place to prevent the tiles from...

Hi, i'm erecting a timber frame garage. I have used 150 x150mm douglas fir for posts and beams. Do i need a wall plate on top or can the rafters be fixed to the top beam?

Thanks all, i think Planning permission is the way to go then.

We haven't got anyone over the road, no neighbours for 500m or more. Is it ok now? :sneaky: No seriously how do the councils keep track of changes like this? surely not everyone behaves themselves. I can see that building a house/extension needs to go through all the correct channels but i find...

Thanks. It's a big garage, 5.5m x 12m and does show on the land registry documents for the property. So let's say i replaced the garage BUT there were a few small changes, maybe a tiled roof rather than felt, and the back 6.5m turned into an office/shed. I was also going to go with a really...

Hi we have 2 large garages made from wood, they appear as square boxes on our land registry document. We would like to replace them with a new timber frame garage and an office. Are we able to just knock them down and build new timber ones? They will be in the same position but the office will...