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    Truss parallel to ridge

    hi I am looking in to putting a roof on my garage. The back half of the garage is a flat concrete roof which has already been constructed. The front half of the roof will be a tiled, hipped roof. Now the problem... The hipped roof can place no load on the concrete roof so all load must be...
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    wet room floor

    Hi, I'm currently doing a wet room on the first floor. I'm using a marmox showerstone tray with marmox board on the rest of the floor and the Mira tanking kit. I have boarded between the joists (400mm apart) in 18mm WBP, however the joists were not level (about 1/2 inch lower at one side...
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    bathroom circuit - expert needed!

    I want to have two settings for my bathroom lights - all on or just those over the bath on. I will put those over the bath on one circuit and the rest on another. I will have a two pole switch which switches both circuits and a single pole switch which switches just the lights over the bath...
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    Hansgrohe shower

    Hi, I'm currently doing up my bathroom and so need a new shower. I have been told by a couple of suppliers that Hansgrohe are the best showers. Is that true? I would like a recessed shower valve (e.g the hansgrohe iBox), but I am worried it will be really difficult to replace/fix if it...
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    DVR/Camera/PIR standards

    Hi, I'm looking to build a system which has two cameras (although there may be up to 4 in the future) - one for the side of the house and one for the back. I would like it to sound an alarm inside the house on motion detection and show the current camera view on a monitor (preferably there...
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    Hiding a gas pipe

    Hi, I intend to put an Vaillant 838 in my loft (as a side topic any views on the 838 would be appreciated). I have done the calcs and have determined it will require the fitting of a new gas feed up the outside of the house. I just wondered if it was possible to hide the gas pipe within a...
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    Best roofing system for a garage

    Hi, My house and garden are raised up from the road and there is a very steep bank at the roadside before levelling off into my garden. The levelling off is slightly higher than the height of a garage. I intend to cut a dugout into the bank and build a double garage, but would like to put...
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