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Hi, Would anyone happen to have a copy of this standard that they could email me please? Thanks in advance

Hi All, I'd appreciate your views on the best way to correct falls on an asphalt covered balcony deck. The balconies are very poorly designed and have falls towards the building of circa 3 degrees. Balconies are flooding during heavy rainfall and breaching the upstands and flashings so I am...

I'm putting together a rough order of costs for a high rise block in London. It was a building I recently surveyed to establish the cause of water ingress. It needs all the metal copings replacing on the roof parapet and I'm wondering if anyone can give me a clue as to the cost of edge...

I recently paid £160 per cubic metre or concrete readymix delivered to Nottingham. In retrospect this seems over the odds but I only used them because the same company was supplying my skips. Can anyone recommend someone in Nottingham or the East Midlands that supplies readymix at more...

Hi all, I'd appreciate some general advice around installing a three phase car lift into my garage at home. My house was fully rewired to 17th Edition about 3 years ago. The garage wasn't wired up because I knew I'd be building a much bigger garage. Anyway this is nearing completion bar...

Hi All, I have an Ariston Microgenus combi installed in the kitchen. I came down early this morning and the kitchen was incredibly hot with condensation running down the windows and patio doors. It appears that this was adventitious heat from the boiler which was running all night due to demand...

Hi Everyone, I wonder if you could help clarify the approach to meeting 17th Edition Regs? I've just had a substantial amount of electrical work carried out by a major contractor. Everything was done on electrical installation certificates and despite the fact that we had a schedule of rates...

I am still shocked at the amount of companies or individual electricians are getting the PIR process wrong. I tried to explain the process to someone again today and yet again there was major disagreement. They had electricians doing informal checks then reporting back to the client on cost...

Hi All, I'm at employment tribunal on Monday,I was dismissed for whistleblowing and my ex employer had fabricated a whole host of issues after I was dismissed. One of their claims is that I blew a situation out of proportion with regard to the administrative process for periodic inspections...

Can anyone shed any light on this please. The boiler failed yesterday and we managed to get a gas engineer yesterday who diagnosed and changed a faulty fan. The boiler started back up but appears to be 'hunting', at least this is the term I'd use, being an ex car mechanic. WE turned the boiler...

We're about to undertake a large rendering programme in an effort to increase the SAP ratings on the properties concerned. I'm currently discussing how we deal with the issue surrounding boiler flues. If we render up to the flues then there's a chance we might have to increase the length of...

We're about to undertake a large rendering programme in an effort to increase the SAP ratings on the properties concerned. I'm currently discussing how we deal with the issue surrounding boiler flues. If we render up to the flues then there's a chance we might have to increase the length of...

We're about to undertake a large rendering programme in an effort to increase the SAP ratings on the properties concerned. I'm currently discussing how we deal with the issue surrounding boiler flues. If we render up to the flues then there's a chance we might have to increase the length of...

I would like to know how to calculate UB sections for a beam with a UDL (fully restrained) and a beam with only a point load (only restrained at the connections) by considering bending strength and shear strength and deflection - calcultions and information

A Landlord has disconnected a tenants gas supply to one of its properties with the agreement of their tenant who continually complained of suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and on two occasions called an ambulance. On the last occasion the tenant was found to be heating his property...

Hi All, Has anyone any experience of using a correlator for finding underground leaks? I've instructed my contractor to use one of these to locate a leak rather than digging up half of staffordshire in a vague attempt at finding a leak on a water main. The response I got back was that...