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Hi, Thanks to this place and some sound advice my new detached garage has just started smoothly. 7.5mx 4m (Limit for BR) and flat roof construction keeping below 2.5m in height to avoid planning permission. Single skin with piers at door openings and or mid span (although brickie has...

Seems like i`m making progress with planning the garage. Last bit of the jigsaw is the roof. Garage plan dims, 4m wide x 8m in length. Garage door on front 4m face, 3m wide opening and 1.98m high 1.5 brick piers adjacent the opening another set of piers mid way along the 8m length walls...

OK then, i`ve got my No. of brick estimate sorted, i have some very rough plans/ sketch's but what i`m now uncertain of is the brickwork surrounding an up and over door, and how it should be constructed. I have a garage door in mind, 3048x 1981 from here or somewhere similar...

Hi there, I`ve finally got the go ahead to build a new garage. I`m planning to do most of the plans and excavation myself, get a brickie in to do the walls and possibly floor. I could do with an opinion on the foundations. Should I excavate the wall footings, approx 400mm x say 700mm (I...

Hi guys, I must say this resource has helped me finish the inside of the house over the last few years- and i`m now moving outside. I have a dated prefab garage that’s approx 2.3m x 4.5m, most panels are in ok condition bar the front panel over the doors which is spalling, the doors are...

We have getting to the stage in our project to finish off the flooring downstairs. We have about 53sqm to cover and the sub floor varies as follows. Porch- chipboard panels upon timber joists Conservatory - chipboard panels upon timber joists Living room- half quarry tiles with concerte...

I`m at my wits end with our local appliance repair/sales shop. Long story cut short: Washer dryer purchased about 3 years ago.It is not in heavy use, just occasional. 6 months ago one of the stats went, i replaced the pair. Then it worked fine, never a problem until just before...

Hi, we are currently arranging for lots of plastering works within our house and i`m looking into getting all of the door casings changed, prior to carrying any plastering out. (hopefully so we can get the plaster flush ish to the new casing) What ball park figures would i be looking at for...

Keeping it brief: Gas and electric box used to jut out into living room, they have been demolished and relocated. The gap left by the 'box' has been bricked up level(ish) with the existing masonary in the wall. The whole wall will require plastering works to get the required finish, is...

I am in the process of obliterating what will be our lounge. I wanted to take the existing 1200mm wide window out that faces the rear graden, and replace with a set of 1200 wide french doors. I called out a localish door company that our family have had really good experiences with. Very...

Hello, i have just been trial fitting a new set in the wall fancy shower head and a thermostatic shower mixer valve, before i go about tanking and tiling. combi boiler ferroli, mains fed cold water system, hot water temp turned up to full at approx 55deg c. i have done 2 trials with...

Hello all Basically are installing a hole in the wall type burner into the place where an existing gas fire used to be installed. (brick chimney) The fire isnt installed, just the aperture is there ready. What i`m unsure of is whether i need to get the chimney lined with a class 1...

Shower head is: Its going into a solid wall thats 1 brick thick. It was suggested that i use a 1/2 inch bsp backplate elbow, sink it into the existing wall to a desired depth, plug wall screw in elbow and then screw head in once tiled. Seems easy but back plateelbow i have only...

Basically plumber did a runner, we have no toilet upstairs. The old toilet was demolished, and before the plumber left he cut the hole in the wall for the new waste. The waste pipe connection is outside as we did not want boxed in pipes in the room. If you take a look at my ten min cad...

Mods (hope it falls into right catergory, was unsure if plumbing or wall tile, but with tanking and tiling issue it might be more relevant here? if not please move) I`m trying to do as much work in the bathroom as I can before I get somone in to help me (previously paid a plumber to do work...

Hello, i wnat to cut a U shape out of a tile where it partly passes over a vent. Tiles are porcelain 600x 280 ish mm and 8mm ish thick. I`m using a diamond encrusted wheel on a tile cutter, but cant see how i can use that to cut the shape i need. Is best option cut the two vertical bits of...

Hopefully this is a quick one, (I have searched) I am using porcelain 600x300 (ish mm) tiles with Bal rapid set on the walls. I have a quadrant shower tray and the wall tiles within the shower area will be onto solid masonary walls, so do i need to tank this area? Bal WP-1 etc? Its just the...

I wont go into massive details about how i`ve been screwed over but i`ve basically got one tiled wall, a tiled floor and a bath installed in what was our upstarrs bathroom. The plumbing for the sink sticking is out the floor, a couple of holes in the outer wall for the WC (fookin cold!! as we...

Basically everything works fine bar the drying process. It proceeds onto the drying programme but no heat seems to be generated (Shell feels cool and no steam pouring out of the power hole/filler as normal) I have searched on here i *think* it could be the thermostats or a heating element...

What kind of ball park figure would i be looking at for an existing rear window to be replaced with an external UPVC french door of the same width? just so i know whether i`m going to be ripped off of not. ~ 800 - 1k? Thanks Alex ________________________________ lynda, moderator...