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    Box Lintel

    It's a catnic box lintel
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    Underpinning a garden wall.

    Pour the concrete in, it displaces the water.
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    What's the going rate for tiling?

    I charge £65 for ceramic, porcelain Mosaics and herringbone £110 per sqm. Just all down to ease of tooling, cutting and drilling. That's North England.
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    Patio door lintel

    You can cut out below a window and fit a window to the floor or a door/doors. Either way, that will need to obtain a FENSA certificate or building regs. If you wish to touch the lintel, or do lintel work, you will need building regs and building regs will want a copy of your structural engineers...
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    Flat Roof Query

    Technically you're right and wrong. Although you don't need a wall plate on a flat roof, you can fit a wall plate. The advantage of doing so is that it makes securing the roof timbers down easier and much more resiting to uplift. I only know because of my structural engineer and what was...
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    Flat Roof Query

    Sit the joists on a 4x2 wall plate https://www.practicalarchitecture.com/blog/how-to-detail-a-wallplate
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    RADIATOR BTU PER ROOM SIZE?

    Just use one of the many calculators on the internet - Here's one What I always advise is, if the calculator suggests xx Btu size, get the next sized up radiator. You can always turn radiators down, but in adverse cold weather, you can't turn them above their maximum. And obviously, the boiler...
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    Removing old fireplace (Ed.)

    Imagine the columns are not there and the little bit under the arch is removed too. That means you will be back to the original chimney stack. Then in the square section, that's where you install the fireplace of your choice. So depending on an open fire, or an inset or stand alone wood burner...
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    Sealing and painting interior stone wall

    Solid walls need to breath, try sealing them on either side with modern paints, cement, renders, Thompsons water seal etc.. and you will enter the world of problems. In the day they were built, lime mortar was used, white wash was chalk based, and interior emulsion was clay based. The sealant...
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    Bath tap connections

    Change the type of bath so it will allow you to plumb it in. If an upstairs bathroom, remove a piece of plasterboard on the downstairs ceiling and plumb from below.
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    Can i tile onto a formica backsplash?

    You tile onto plastered wall.
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    Can I use a self leveller on weyroc?

    I never apply adhesives, leveler, etc..straight onto a wooden floor substrate, I always screw down every 4" 5mm ply.
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    Large tears in Roofing Felt - Damp on Ceiling

    No, it just needs reroofed. The felt goes on first on top of the rafters, then the tiles/slates. If the tiles/slates slates fail, the felt saves the day. If the tiles/slates are perished, as well as the felt, you can't magically make or invent a temporary repair under the tiles/slates.
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    How to extend underfloor heating.

    No, loops are designed to be continuous, joints can leak. So install a separate zone to the manifold.
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    Damp patches under window (Ed.)

    It means water is transmitting from the outer leaf to the inner leaf. These are possible causes - 1 - None or perished cavity tray above window lintel 2 - Full cavity insulation 3 - None or poor installed DPC around window 4 - Wall ties angled towards inner leaf and/or covered in mortar 5 -...
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    Evidence of water leaking?

    Looks historic. Fix it up and see.
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    Mould on painted mullions

    If you seal stone, how will it breathe?
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    Patching in Thermalite

    Yes, you can build the coats up to the desired thickness, just kill the suction between coats with SBR.
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