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Looking for some advice on an extension which is currently being erected. About 18 months ago, we received neighbour consultation on an extension next door to replace an old conservatory. Looking at the plans it was to erect a flat roof structure 5m projected and 7m across the rear. So as...

I've just had a new driveway done but next door has a lawn butting against it. I'm planning to lay a line of pin kerbs along the edge just to finish it off and to protect it from next doors lethal lawnmower. I've got some postcrete left over from some fencing I did last month so was wondering...

Im looking to build a shed 2.4mx1.0m so it fits into a small awkward space in the garden. It'll be a pent roof sloping rearward with double doors to the front. I fancied the rustic look whilst keeping it watertight. My plan was to use 3x3 fence posts for the uprights on each corner with a...

Scenario is a single skin concrete block wall between unheated garage and heated utility room. On the warm side I've studded it, added 50mm of foil faced insulation and plan to overboard this with 67.5mm backed plasterboard. I've been advised that I need a vapour barrier between the wall and...

I've just had an extension constructed whereby we have an integral garage with a bedroom above and utility to the rear. Garage is unheated, door is non insulated and has an external cavity wall. Partition wall to rear of garage into utility is single skin blockwork with door opening. Looking at...

Although I'm sure this should have been done differently, and I suspect there might be several wrongs in it, rather than start all again I need to rectify it so that I can finish the chipboard floor to the door opening. Suspended timber floor which is bolted up to the inner leaf. Top of the...

Just need to ask advice on this. Had a new extension to the rear of our house. It's a 60s build with suspended timber floors. For the ease of running existing services to the new area, we are continuing with the suspended timbers. A new sub base was laid down in the extension, butted up against...

My builder is about to start holding the back of the house up with a pair of 356x127 UBs. These will be bolted together however, the joists run to the wall so the plan is to bolt timber into the web with hangers on it to take the first floor. Due to the size of the beam and the fact that...

I'm in the process of building an extension, and will be fitting bi folds with a weathered threshold. The extension continues the theme from the rest of the house in that there are suspended timber floors and air bricks throughout so need ventilation. I would like the decking to be flush or...

I'm putting a 4m bifold into a blockwork constructed single storey extension out of the back. Above it is a pitched roof, with velux and inside the ceiling is vaulted so no horizontal trusses. I've been advised by the SE to use a RHS with plate, but I was wondering if anyone had used a Catnic...

I'm in the process of sorting out the plans for an extension. Semi detached 2 storey house. House is 6m wide, but i'm going out at the side and out at the back. Original construction is brick, cavity, block. Extension at the rear is blockwork only. I've had calcs for a span across the back of...

I have a 60s house with an internal chimney through the centre of the building. Strictly, i'm not installing a wood burner, as i'm putting a gas wood burner style Yeoman CL3 in there. Having knocked the old one out, and pulled away the plaster, I can see that the lintel is doing very little...

Looking for some advice, moved in to our current semi detached a few years back and about 18 months ago, found water under the ground floor. Theres about a foot void between floorboard and concrete pad underneath. All signs that this water has been there for some time. As i'm in the process of...