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Has anyone ever heard of BT actually prosecuting someone for working on drop lines, master boxes etc?.

Don't trust any jack enough to go crawling under your car, especially a hydraulic one. Always use a pair of axle stands or ramps. Get a piece of close grained hardwood to use as a jacking pad.

Being a stormy area of Scotland, the roof has sarking with tyvec under tiles. The spec is for 130mm insulation board between pitched rafters with a minimum air gap between board and sarking of 25mm. 250mm of loft insulation between/over the ceiling joists. I decided to cut off the lower...

I posted this in the Plastering forum in error, here it is again. Hi, I was away for a few days and my son-in-law started fitting the insulation boards upstairs in the extension. I had intended cutting the boards level with the top horizontal timber and infilling the vertical timber frame...

Yep, just me beavering away all on my tod, one year down the line with the 2 storey extension, now well on with second fix. Wife not interested in even looking round it until it's time to spend loadsa money on the furnishings!. (doing a complete renovate/extend on end terrace for retirement.)...

Can anyone suggest a fairly robust mp3 player to plug in to a Makita site radio?. And what type of cable would be needed for mp3 player to radio AUX socket?.

Sorry, removed as this was in wrong forum. :oops:

Hi, I bought a couple of Makita lxt tools recently from different suppliers. I was idly looking at them just now and noticed that while the drill has a CE mark on the spec. plate, the stapler doesn't and instead has a tiny sticker with the CE mark. I wonder if this means that the stapler is a...

No, not tiling, it will be vinyl. By intermediate noggins do you mean from joist to joist (maybe 2 noggins at each board join) or from joist to joist then another bit of timber parallel to joists?.

Hi, I'm ready to lay 22mm flooring ply in a kitchen and bathroom, should the ply be glued and screwed to the joists and at the butting edges?. It isn't t&g like the chipboard layed upstairs.

Try B&Q or solent tools.

Thanks for that, I was wondering about leaving something to fix plasterboard to! :)

Hi, Is there a "normal" way to butt up two new 4x2 stud partitions in a Tee shape or should i just bang in extra studs and dwangs as seems necessary to support plasterboard at the join?.

Thanks, I did wonder if anything would dissolve it!. :)

Hi, There are some gaps between Kingspan and timber wall studs where my sawing wasn't too straight. Is ordinary silicone or Gripfill OK to use to fill these gaps?. Is there anything I shouldn't use?