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    Using Structural Timber for Lintels on New Works

    Hi all Wondering if I could bounce an idea off you before submitting it to the BC officer and potentially ****ing him off early on? Doing a loft conversion and BC officer asked us to change all 2nd floor timber window lintels to concrete and reenforce all timber door lintels. I've done all of...
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    Cavity Wall insulation advice - can it be done yourself? Damp?

    Hi I've got an issue with flanking noise down my cavities so I've been looking into blown rockwool cavity fill. I really don't see how this doesn't bridge the cavity and bear the potential issues with damp ,yet people seem to do it. My walls are actually rendered and with the above in...
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    AMcAlpine Shower trap Outlet

    Hi all, hopefully a quick question, I've bought one of the 70mm high flow mcalpine showertraps which are pretty prevalent/well reviewed. It comes with a 135 deg. multi outlet. I think this should probably shoot straight down ward (i.e the outlet hole is pointing at 6 o'clock) however it's...
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    Removing a brick wall/chimney - Lintel cutting

    Hi Please could you guys let me know how you'd tackle this job/let me know if what I plan to do is downright dangerous! https://i.ibb.co/X2rpBQg/thumbnail-IMG-8057.jpg https://ibb.co/xCtGvk0 https://ibb.co/x613KNq I'm removing this brick wall (previously a chimney, half was removed...
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    Extending Floor/Moving Front Door/Porch

    Hi guys Wondering if you could help me out by letting me know how you'd tackle this job? I've got a front door behind a pointless storm porch (rain comes directly in to it, slippy when wet wind blows rubbish into the corners etc) so I'm wanting to free up some space inside by moving the door...
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    Tie-ing into existing retaining wall and other wall questions..

    Hi I have a stone wall retaining the land at the back of my house before stepping down into the garden. A structural engineer has said while it's fairly solid there's a little bulge and he'd like to see some re-enforcement of it and advised building a wall at 90 degrees to the retaining wall...
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