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    Adding a window

    I'm looking at buying a house that has a bedroom without a 'normal' window; the house has been extended, so the external wall where the bedroom window was has become an internal wall. The room has a velux-style roof window, but I'd prefer to add a regular window in the remaining outside wall...
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    Placing a bathroom extractor fan

    Hi all, Our bathroom had a 4" vent through an outside wall with no fan/electrics right next to the shower head above the bath. We've moved the shower and taps to the other end of the bath, so the vent is now the length of a standard bath (plus an awkward couple of inches of tile!) away from...
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    Underfloor topup heating

    Our bathroom currently has a small radiator (for about 1900BTU) plus a simple chromed towel rail that I've no idea of the rating of, but given that it's basically 3.6m of 25mm chromed pipe probably isn't much. We're looking to replace this with a single large towel radiator rated at 2143BTU as...
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    Shelves in Loft

    Not sure if this belongs here, but... I've recently upgraded the insulation in my loft from 100m to 270mm, and have raised the floor height by 170mm to do it. I've boarded the central section of the loft as well, covering about half of the total area up there, for storage. I kept it to half...
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    Cross-Batten advice

    I've just moved into a 1970's house that currently has around 100mm of fiber-glass batt insulation in the roof. My current plan to improve this is: 1. Add some loose fill to close off existing gaps (after 35 years the existing insulation doesn't adequately fill the joist spaces. 2. Raise...
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