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    How do I work out what size radiators I need?

    I'm planning my refurb and for budgeting reasons I want to start looking at what size radiators I need: There are so many calculators online but they all give me very different results! All my external walls are 220mm solid brick and all new walls will be brick insulated cavity block walls...
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    Replacing suspended timber floor with concrete or block and beam, worth it?

    When my planning application eventually gets approved I'll have the perfect opportunity to redo pretty much the entire house. I currently have a suspended floor which will need insulating, but a mate of mine was saying that I should replace the timbers with concrete instead. If I do that I...
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    Full fill cavity wall with PIR

    I'm going to be getting major refurbishment done at my house that hasn't been touched for 40 years or so. I'll be removing a few external walls and extending them out, but in doing so the solid wall will become cavity walls. I assume I can't leave the cavity completely empty? So if that's the...
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    Complete house rewire, what to expect? What to do?

    Hi all, I've had some plans drawn up for the refurb on my house, it's a 1930s house that hasn't been touched in perhaps 40 years or so. The wiring in ancient and needs to be completely redone. These are my proposed plans: https://imgur.com/8cdYgRY Currently the fuse box is where the new WC is...
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    Creating wooden frame for outside concrete bar top

    Hi all, I was watching this YouTube video recently and he managed to sell me on the idea to make my own concrete worktop for a bar area in the garden. I am a complete novice at woodworking so it'll be one hell of a learning process. I'm planning to make a top that is 160 x 80 x 5cm, this...
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