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Hi We have had a new hardwood stable type door fitted recently (no why the long face jokes plz). The door has a small apperture for fitting a glazing panel which we have temporarliy boarded up for the momment. We would like to put a small DG unit - toughned outer for security Any...

Hi, Snags seem to be taking an age to finish. Some cracks have appeared where we have plasterboarded and skimmed and painted the underside of the new loft stairs and existing plastered masonry wall. I'm not too worried about the cracks as in places to be expected perhaps. But would...

O.k. is floor is going down in loft but feel the joiner is taking a bit long Carpenter has taken 3.5 days to do a room approx 4x5 meters consider fairly straight forward. Boards are 150 wide structural t&G lost head nailed. He says its taken a bit longer becuase the boards are a bit...

Having a debate with the mrs about floor finish to douggy fir timber floor boards which are going down next week. Having looked about there seems to be divided opinion. My good lady seems to think HWO will show up water stains - from what I have read this doesn't seem quite right although...

We are fitting a return balustrade to the top of our loft stairs to form an edge guarding to the floor edge It will be formed from timber - for the spindles is a base rail needed or is this just a time labour saving device? The detail feels a bit clunky. The floor isn't in yet and will be...

Trying to keep a lid on it... have discovered the carpenter has formed a door opening 2040 high by 760 wide - imperial height metric width I assume :x The door needs to be fire rated and eventually there will be a family of doors and was hoping to use a standard 1981x760 from somewhere...

We have sourced some floor boards and would like some advice on jointing if anyone has any exprerience...I have reposted here as is related to carpentry as much as flooring T&G is the normal option but was thinking would like to half lap as would like to express the joint and will also be...

We have sourced a board and would like some advice on jointing if anyone has any exprerience T&G is the normal option but was thinking would like to half lap as would like to express the joint and will also be easier if i need to get at cables below. The boards are ex 150x25 dougy fir...

Next job is to board out the underside of stairs ! Looks difficult to fit a batten down the middle and am worried about screws going through the treads and risers. Overall width is 810mm If I batten across the stairs at right angles to the stringers with 2x1 battens at 300 ctrs would...

I have knocked a hole through an existing lath and plaster wall( plaster is sooty render with skim really ':evil:' ) in readiness to get the stairs up to our loft. The plaster has come of a little more than wanted so will strip back to the next stud so the lath finishes on a stud and not mid...

Hopfuly I will get more responses for this than my last post :lol: Looking to do solid or engineered floorboards for our loft conversion (about 25msq approx) I was thinking of pine(redwood) flooring or maybe oak if the budget will stretch. It has to be T&G ex 25mm board for building...

Hi, Am just about to place an order for a stir case //media.diynot.com/74000_73535_37410_83988636_thumb.jpg Am waiting for the fabrictors to get back to me but in the mean time would like some advice on the stub newel. The newel post is 90mmx90mm and if centred on the...

Partition wall is approx 15mm thick so think a 115mm wide lining doesn't really give a nib to plaster up to - next standard size is around 132 can this be cut down? I see travis purkins make to suit width - is this likely to be much more expensive? (I'm impatient and can't wait til tomorrow to...

Time for my weekley post somewhere on DIYnot- must be progresisng o.k. as its now about plasterboard :D Due to getting the stuff up to the loft am using 900x1800mm pb to underline stub walls sloping ceiling/flat ceiling in our loft conversion. I have spaced battens (at rightangle to...

Hi We are having an electrician do some wiring for an extension. THe RCBs on the consumer unit are rated at 100 milli amps. (I hope this is the right terminology right?!) The sparky says should be smaller, around 30 ma I think and so need a new board. As our building works are...

Fixing 25x50 batten through 70mm insulation to u/s of timber rafters in roof- then plasterboard screwed through to battens Will 125mmx4.8 drywall screws be ok for fixing the batten or should i use proper wood screws but seem to only be able to get 125mmx6mm Does it matter? Cheers Jon

I thought I would repost and try my luck here here as no response on the general building forum. Has anyone any experience of using lap vents http://www.lapvent.co.uk/ and if they work and how difficult they are to install - B Con are happy because they have the BAA cert but would be useful...

O.k. so have begun converting loft and have had builders in to put the joists in and installl some velux- for the next phase will be insulating and dry lining ourselves. A few words of wisdom would be appreciated on the following: As is good practice now days will be installing a VCL on...

Hi I have put a building regs app in for doing our loft conversion and have had a list of questions back from the plan check. Most I have dealt with but any thoughts/advice on the following welcome as really can't see the sense in some of it. Main issues are structural- 1. We have a...

The boiler fires up for heating or hot water and then after about 30-60secs you can see the gas go out - the indicator stays on light stays on. There is also a strange clunking noise. I have also just notice there was some steam coming out of the auto air vent (wife just put the hw tap on !!!)...