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Universal Beam 1.8m length 1.46 opening in single leaf wall. Supporting walls are 350mm and 400mm wide. SE has specified 3 courses of blue bricks rather than a padstone. Do I get the brickie to lay the 3 courses in normal brick pattern, or are they stacked one on top of the other? Given...

Refurbishing a 1900s house that has been empty since 2004. The roof is pitched slate over batten ( and that's it!). There is no loft insulation at all, so am going to fill in-between ceiling joist and over with 300mm of loft insulation. However the external walls have an open 50mm cavity...

Hello all, looking for a little advice. I am insulating two ground floors. Both are suspended timber on 100mm joists. One has an undercroft, the other is over a basement which has a lathe and plaster ceiling. For the undercroft is there any reason that I cannot fill with 100mm celotex...

Hi All, I'm connecting a new wc pipe to an existing clay sewer. I've bought the flexible connectors to connect the clay to 160mm pvc, but I was wondering whether there is a push in pvc adapter that fits into the spigot end of the clay pipe that I could use instead of the flexible connector...

Hi all, I'm converting a pantry into a downstairs loo/shower room. The sewer runs along side the wall where the wc pipe will come out and into a stub stack. I have excavated a hole to the sewer pipe, which is below the foundations and 16.5 inches (centre line) from the wall - see image...

Hello all, I'm turning an old pantry into a shower room for my mum. it is roughly 1.8m x 1.2m I have taken up the old quarry tiles (laid on sand) and excavated two bricks down from previous floor level at a depth of 150mm - the injected dpc on the outside is in the first brick down. I want to...