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Hi I've got a small garage on the side of my house that needs refelting. It's a concrete flat roof which connects to the neighbours garage. What is the best method to refelt this on myside? I'm thinking of going with a 2 ply torch on, with the cap sheet being torch on mineral felt. Any tips on...

Hi, I'm in the process of renewing some plumbing work from copper and compression fittings to pushfit plastic in my bathroom. It's a mixed system gravity fed hot and mains pressure cold, The hot water tank is only marginally higher than the bath taps at around 1.5 metres. Currently the Hot water...

Hi, I'm tiling a small toilet room just under 2 metres long and 1 metre wide with 60cm x30cm tiles in a running/brick bond pattern with possibly with a 33% offset (prefer 50% offset tbh). I can get two full length tiles on the wall but the third tile will have to be cut down by a third, my...

Hi I've stripped back to the bare brick on a small toilet room, which I intend to tile over after plaster boarding. The problem I have is the walls are very uneven, my question is how do I make sure the plaster boards are level with one another and plumb? For plumb I'm guessing its start from...

Hi Just practicing building a roughly 3x2 metre shed using cavity wall construction, I'll be using practice mortar once I've figured out the bond so it's not a permanent structure. I'm finding it really difficult to dry bond out the inner leaf block work with outer leaf brick work such that the...

Hi Just wondering if someone could give me some advice on how brick layers in the construction industry go about building a cavity wall. What I have been taught is to rack back corners then use a string line to fill in the middle of the wall with bricks. However I've seen a few different...