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    Pipe sizing

    i know I know this has been asked loads of times but I can't find a difinitive answer/answers. Here goes.... My house is a shell at moment, and having a reputable plumber fit me a new Worcester boiler. Water supply coming in from Street via plastic pipe is 22mm or something like that not...
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    Foundation question????

    is underpinning actually going under current foundations, or is it kind of in parrallell to existing cheers
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    Foundation question????

    yeah mine is circa 1925 and my foundations are like this, im starting to wonder whether this "extension" wasnt actually an extension and actually part of the original house as foundations are the same.
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    Foundation question????

    nope no concrete, just brick onto clay, but bricks spreading out as they come down. sorry prob not explained myself well enough, ive maintained the cavity and returned into inner leaf of house the padstone will obviously be sat on inner leaf
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    Foundation question????

    At the rear of our house we have a single storey cavity wall extension. 1.5m x 4m with a flat felt roof. We're intending on keeping this but glazing the roof and putting in some bifold doors. All good........... I've had a SE do some calcs so that we can remove some further internal walls by...
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    Bridging cavity solution please

    can you see the dpc in the inner and outer leaves of the wall? In the old days the cavity used to be filled only to dpc level, and finished with a slight slope to the outside in case of rain penetration. I imagine your cavity is only a couple of inches wide so it wouldn't take many...
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    Bridging cavity solution please

    Thanks for the reply but the void underneath is about 3 feet!!!
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    Bridging cavity solution please

    So we are having a new set of bifold doors fitted to the rear of our circa 1925 house where an existing window was. After the window has been removed and both inner and outer leaf are brought down to DPC level I am going to be left with a gap from the cavity from where my original floorboards...
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    Lintels????????

    The masonry has not sagged, and there is no evidence of cracking, its all down to renewing the windows, so whilst im at it ill change the internal ones aswell, was looking at a catnic double leaf with cavity as a solution and then a soldier course to finish it off externally. Would installing an...
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    Lintels????????

    Ha ha, harley street love it, would this soldier course sit flush with the render, and also are lintels of different sizes specs availible to accomodate double skin on an old 1910 house. cheers for answering
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    Lintels????????

    I need to install new lintels into my property above each and every external window and door (sad face) but my issue is this. The house is fully rendered (rough cast) and so to start chiselling off render to put in strong buys etc i am looking at having to possibly fully re-render the full house...
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