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Thanks again - can now see bar joining the two and makes sense so looks like a simple job to fit, great forum and thanks both for replies, Lawrence

Thanks for quick reply, so I don't need to loop them together by sounds of it which was leaning towards, thanks for help, Lawrence

Hi, An old external garden socket finally gave up the ghost, it had cable coming up with single live, neutral and earth and was cabled into one of the sockets and the other was simply chained on with 3 wires to its own live, neutral and earth. Bought a replacement socket thinking was either...

Thanks for reply, the trimming back will definitely stop the flapping, did think about sticking but reckon over time would work loose again, just concerned that every other roof seems to either have trays or the felt into guttering which is what the old part of the roof has which I have read is...

Thanks for reply, just been up on roof as gutter was full of moss and taken some pictures of old roof that been in place 30+ years and the new roof which is about a year old, the old roof has some black material under last tiles and into gutter which I am guessing is like the 5U felt recommended...

Thanks for reply - would DPC also flap in the wind as quite expose up there with way extension sticks out into prevailing wind and the gap top the guttering ? Guess not an easy fix to do with just ladders, there is a temptation just to cut felt back to stop flapping as the tiles are so closely...

Hi, I posted on this a while back but ever since been given run around by builder and roofer and not sure what to do next, we had a two storey extension done last year and ever since when windy there is a flapping noise coming from the felt, the roofer came back and trimmed the felt to edge...

Hi, Need to re-route gas as part of renovation and best solution is to run tracpipe from meter to new boiler in garage, it would mean running pipe in ground (following recommendations/regs on depth/covering) through the gap pictured below which is 950 at narrowest point : Are there any regs...

The plumber is tied in with the builder I am using but tempted to see if I can get a heating engineer that knows what they are doing round to advise on the best setup for the plumber to install, Many thanks, Lawrence

Hi, After a bit of a saga with my plumber (posted before), I need to chose boiler size as soon as possible, the plumber is not going to do any heat loss calculations or do anything to work out accurately so I am on my own. Appreciate this is not what should be doing but after some level of...

Many thanks for all the replies, really useful, looks like a heat loss calculation is key, will mention it to plumber but he was keen to order boiler, think they normally just install the one they are used to. Have emailed baxi for advice as well but the heat loss thing I need to do some more...

Hi, In middle of renovation, at the end will be a 4 bed detached house (1950's) with reasonable insulation (new extension will be to new regs). There will be two electric showers and additional new one from the hot water tank. There are two zones of wet underfloor heating (zone 1 16m squared...

Thanks for everyone taking time to reply, I am now in a dilemma as have a confession to make ! The initial post was done after seeing floor for first time and a bit of shock set in and measured the amount of joist that had been cut away and amount left, what I had failed to do was measure the...

Meeting builder on site this morning- dreading it ! Have quite a few questions to ask and will try and get SE there today as well as seems need to look closely how straight they cut sections off, ask if they used glue on the boards and checking how far sister joists need to go, how they should...

Thats interesting and never occurred to me, the SE said to cut it tight to wall - will double check, Many thanks, Lawrence

Yep, they never can hold a tape straight, he even said better to come in under as easy to make height up yet due to poor measuring ended up almost 5cm too high, had similar problems elsewhere - incredible thing is they just create extra work for themselves whereas a few mins on measuring could...

Uncanny ! - just had a very good chat with structural engineer on phone, all previous meetings had been on site with builder present, he ran the measurements and fails the deflection check, he recommended removing the noggins, then screwing/bolting another 170 joist to existing joist cut tight...

Having a 2 storey extension done, builders haphazardly measured the floor level and despite saying better to come in under as better to make up height when they knocked through new floor level was good chunk higher - why they didn't knock a pilot hole through despite suggesting it is a mystery...

Hi, Finally going to have a tv setup with a refurb project and have opted for wet under floor heating under porcelain tiles, one end of the room is going to have sub woofer, two floor standing speakers and a large cabinet with various boxes, the tv is going on the wall above it. Is there any...

That was builders theory but wander just how compacted it is given just got light insulation board on it then full weight of kitchen going on albeit above a screed snd tiles, just seemed if could be a problem now is time, Many thanks, Lawrence