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Neighbors have exposed my garage foundation extending their driveway to the boundary. Not convinced they'll be able to cover it when laying the final surface. How does this stack up regulations wise?

I've been excavating for a new patio that isn't flush with the DPC and have found that the foundation trench of our extension is back filled with old bricks and it *looks* like it may be designed as a soakaway. The foundation blocks are not mortared on their vertical edges and the cavity does...

I have a fence that runs down the side of my corner property with a pavement (~1m wide) and road on the other side. The alleyway between fence and house is 2.2m wide. There is a drop of ~800mm from the pavement level to the nominal garden grade. This has been handled by an embankment and/or...

I'm dumbfounded... I have the green light from the missus to legitimately look at building a pool in the garden as well as a sizeable budget, but it only stretched to DIY (oh no... anyway...). The loose plan I have at the moment is as follows: Outdoor, 2/3 submerged. 8,000 - 10,000l 2x4m, 1m...

Long time since I posted here. Finished the renovation of Death House and got married and had a kid, and now she's in school and wanted a paddling pool that I put a heater in, and I love it, but want it bigger.... Long story short, I want to make a pool. But this time I have budget (y)...

3 Sparkies, 3 opinions. Any chance on a consensus? How should the earthing be handled when running power to my workshop? I have a TN-C-S earthing system in my dwelling. I have a brick built, poured slab, external workshop aprox 20m from the CU. with no extraneous conductors. 60A fused...

I have a concrete toilet waste currenntly coming up 250mm from the back wall of my toilet. Solid slab floor, 60s build. The new closed couple toilet needs the waste coming up more like 60mm from the back wall. At the moment, placing the toilet against the wall has is sitting right over the...

Planning a wetroom. Going to have a shower curtain that can be pulled round, but I want a narrow (150 - 200mm) glass panel jutting out from the wall to overlap the curtain and hopefully remove any chance of spray escaping the pitched area of tiling. Something like a wet room return panel, but...

I desperately want to fit a floor drain into a downstairs toilet while renovating it. need to persuade the (new) wife that it won't take long or cost much. Hoping I can get some opinions on the best way to do it. It's a ground floor toilet on concrete slab Currently, I think the easiest way...

I'm in the process of moving my workshop into a stand alone garage at the end of the garden. The old up n' over got taken out and replaced with a single door and window in a uPVC clad timber frame wall. Need to knock that out to get the last of the big tools in, but then need to close it up...

Out back garden fence is starting to rot and needs a full repair. It's a corner plot, so the fence runs down the side road. It is 2m tall and right next to the pavement. It has been like this since we bought the property. Not commented on at all during the buying process by surveyor...

I've had a half dozen roofers round now to look at a doing a rip off and refit of an extension roof. Gotten on with all of them well, discussed in detail what needs doing. All promised to get a quote to me in the next few days. So far, none have come though. I've been of the mind that if...

So. I know this comes up a lot. But I just want to clarify something. At what point does putting things in a garage constitute a 'change of use'? Is it when I put a sink in? Is it when I put a washing machine in? Is it when I put a stud wall cupboard in? Is it when that cupboard takes up...

Trying to get some information on whether it's acceptable to switch a socket in the same way as a light. For instance, you have an un-switched socket on the ring under the kitchen counter and want to put a fused switch above the counter for it. The ideal way would be to extend the ring up to...

In the process of re-modeling the kitchen and have stripped out all sockets and intermediate cables. I'll re-run the new stuff in 2.5mm T&E, but the existing ring is 4mm copper clad alu. And it sucks. The ring impedances measure fine for the rest of the house, insulation is in good condition...

It's good to be reminded on occasion just how squishy the human body is. And how the loss of concentration for a fraction of a second can instantly change your life. This one, thankfully, isn't bad. But after 3 hours of grinding a floor, I was tired and the goggles were getting a bit fogged...

I'm entertaining the idea of building an indoor paint balling arena. Basically, rent a warehouse and then build a self contained structure within it. I would like to make the structure out of pallet racking. Imagine Wickes with it's huge 3000kg rated shelving, but there are floors spanning...

So, biting the bullet, I chiseled off the bitumen from the concrete floor (not a DPM). Not a fun job. Floor is unlevel... Really unlevel.... like 25mm dips over 2m un-level. I then put down a 1:4 PVA primer (as I've read to do in the past on several sites) and the back of the PVA container...

I'll try and get some pics to make this clearer. But the situation is as follows: Used to be an oil boiler in the kitchen tied to an external brick chimney. Boiler has been removed, flue liner ripped out and bottom of chimney blocked up. I want to install a BBQ area just outside the...

It's the old problem. Bitumen (not DPC, just adhesive) residue left from asbestos-vinyl floor tile removal. Bitumen is dry, but stable. Need to level it. I've put some experimental blobs of cement based leveller down in a couple of spots to test adhesion, and they seem to be stuck well...