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    Outside staircase removed..Replace??

    Hi, Our house is on a hillside so has a lower ground floor/ basement at the rear. In common with most of the other properties in our street at some point in the past the external staircase from the ground floor to the rear garden has been removed and the backdoor opening bricked up. I would...
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    How do I find out how much/ how feasible major alterations to my property will cost?

    Really need some advice though not sure if this is the correct section of the forum to post in. We want to reconfigure the layout of our house. The house is semi detached and on the side of a steep hill. We want to convert half of the existing basement area into a large living room This will...
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    Advice Please on my next step

    Hi, I am in the process of selling my house. We've lived here over 20 years and I have in the past changed a few sockets/ put in wall lights etc. myself. The house has two consumer units, both old fuse wire types, one for the main house the other for the 1980's extension. The extension...
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    Re-site Combi-Boiler from Bedroom to Kitchen

    Hi all, Approx 7 years ago I had a new combi boiler fitted by British Gas, it's a C1 . It was installed in the back bedroom upstairs ( I live in a normal sized 3 bed terrace house built in about 1920). I would like to have this boiler moved downstairs into the kitchen which is in a...
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    Problem with a British Gas C1 Boiler

    Hi all, Hope theres someone out there who can shed some light on this problem. We had a power cut the other day and when the power was restored I discovered that the LCD display on the boiler was completely blank. The central heating comes on at the preset times as before but the display is...
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    Partial chimney breast removal

    Hi all, I have an old readers digest diy book which shows a picture of a chimney breast that has had the front wall removed leaving just the sides which has had shelves fitted between to create a bookcase storage area. Is this an easy job to do as it would create so much extra room in my...
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    What size Velux Roof Window can I fit?

    Hi everyone, stumbled across this excellent forum yesterday and now hope to pick your brains? I want to fit a veleux roof window but I want some reassurances that the exsisting roof rafters are going to be strong enough to take the weight of the window I wish to fit. The rafters are 3x2 and...
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