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Hi all. I have question regards to passing services from one side of my extension to the other. I have a 203 x 203 uc beam that will need boxing in. My question is can i use this space to pass my hot and cold feeds from one side to the other? Floor joists run in different directions so i...

Evening. I have something on my mind regards to an rsj we have had installed. Its been in for a couple months while we waited to get a wall knocked through. This weekend we got round to knocking the wall through and we have since found the cavity wall to be at two different widths that is...

Hi guys. I have some some questions that are likley silly but here goes I am laying my final layer of t&g boards tomorrow. I already have my firrings and sub t&g deck layed. Tomorrow weather permitted is to get the vcl put down onto the deck, ready for the celotex to go on top. This will get...

Hi people. What is considered the maximum distance from a wall, that we can place props. The floor joist are bearing on the wall we are taking out, 3.8m span Reason i ask is i have propped and fitted a few lintels 1.5m lintels, nothing to this scale. time we are trying to keep our kitchen...

Hi guys. Looking for some advice on whats best to do regards signing off electrical work. I have rewired my house while plasterboarding and decorating. All to regs. All wiring is in safe zones, in capping at the correct heights, hard wired interlinked smokes and heat detectors. Usual dual rcd...

Hi guys. So I finished a front bedroom a couple months back and all went well, plasterers were well happy with the job, I'm looking at doing some more rooms now but doubting my previous material choices. I took the old ceiling down and put up 12.5mm plaster boards and took the walls back to...

Hi fellas. I'm doing the ground work on my garage slab. It's mostly done now but I got a question regards to sand blinding layer before dpm. Do you need to do it when using compacted type 1? Reason I'm asking is 3/4 of the garage is deep enough for both 150mm type1 and sand but the top isn't...

Hey folks! Well I really made a bit of a #$%& of this bit of plasterboard in another room I did. I forgot to screw in one of the plasterboard edges to the ceiling rafters, upon realising this I decided to put the screws in and get rid of the bowing board then all of a sudden I get this nice...

Hi guys. I have a question regards to the strength of the window reveal skins. The double skin walls were capped off using sliced up house bricks. These have been removed to stop damp tracking. Now I just want to see if anything should be done to strengthen the two skins back together at the...

hi guys iv had a few guys down to sort our garage out with a quoute for doing the base.. its 9m x 2.8m internal. i bricked it with my stepdad using concrete blocks. had a few quotes, one wanted £2500 for 4" slab with no reinforcment, and expansion control other £900 for 4" slab no...

Hi people Thought i would register on here, been reading a lot and come up with a few things i would like some advice on. Me and the mrs have spent the last 2 days tearing down one of the bedrooms (whole house to be done). we have took it back to brick ready for plaster boarding. i have a few...