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  1. It's buggered buddy. One of your rentals ? I don't know if there is still a stigma around houses that have had subsidence. Patch it up and flog it ?
  2. With Robes, you were allowed a single shelf, and a single rail. Its been a while, Like 10 years since i did robes into new builds. I did a few hundred meters over the years, and at One point got caught, and had to give £27k to the VAT man. I can't remember if backs were allowed. Best of luck
  3. Those cut outs are going to have to be spot on. A bit of top sink ledge showing here, and a tiny bit of overhang there, will drive you nuts. There will be a radius on the top edge of the sink, so that will need filling with something. @Nickfromwales makes a good point that Silicon will last a good few years, but CT1 around the edge joint between the flat bottom of stone, and filling that small curve at the top of the sink would do a good job. I expect that the worktop fitting company will just use clear Silicon. My tip would be to ensure that that small radius is not filled after, but that whatever sealant is used it is put around the top, flat ledge of each sink before the tops are fitted. That way it splurges out into the sink area, and is cleaned off by the installation team.
  4. Love a bit of PWA. My daughter had a right fukcnt of a neighbour. Very nasty piece of work. When the neighbours builder just turned up out of the blue, and started taking the fence down between the properties, (That i had paid for and put up), i had to pop over and have a word. I told him i would give him a hour to put the fence back up, or i would cut his fingers off, and post them through his letterbox, to his wife and kids. I made him empty his wallet. He had about £80. I took that off him, and told him that was my charge for me having to come over. Dont worry, i did it all while remaining super calm. I then made the neighbour appoint a party wall surveyor. I objected to the surveyor, and appointed One of my own. The neighbour had to pay. The surveyor i appointed was an old friend of my dads, so i told him to make sure that he did not agree about anything with the other surveyor. This ment that the neighbour had to pay for a Third surveyor for a final decision. Cost them over Six grand, and Six months by the time it got sorted. Then they had to pay for a more expensive builder, because the One i had chatted to refused to come back. Oh, the fun of being young, and a borderline nutter. Fun times. To me your neighbour sounds like a proper w.........anker. I would be hurting the tossers wallet, and hard.
  5. @Iceverge IMO rats, and mice, love a bit of sand to dig through.
  6. Wire wool. that is a water pipe coming up through a sleeve ? keep stuffing it down, untill you cant get any more in. Rats or mice, wont chew through wire wool, because it makes there gums bleed. I'm not saying dont use poison, but it is always a shame that owls etc then eat the dead rats, and are poisoned. Rats need a food and water source. If you have either of them in your garden, such as a bird feeder, or a pond. Try and remove those. Best of luck. Getting rid of rats is much harder than most people think.
  7. Fitted wardrobes are complicated. They are restricted to how many rails, shelves, and sides they can have, and even backs if i remember correctly.
  8. @SteamyTea Will you still do me a Dirty Donna, if i am ever down your way ?
  9. Looking good. Don't have a go at the bananarama girls. I fancied the dark haired One, way back in the day, but didn't have the bottle to ask her out.
  10. One of your problems will be getting any other electrican to sign off work that they did not do. I had this once on a fair sized extension. i explained to the BCO that i could not get a sign off because the bloke had dropped dead. They accepted an EIHR in that case.
  11. I would shim the wall plate.
  12. If it's an old barn let the roof follow the wonky walls. That can look great IMO
  13. I would shim the rafters, so that the plane of the roof remains constant. This obviously has consequences for inside the building with ceiling heights etc. If this is a new build, i feel for you. The importance of keeping walls square when building is often overlooked. People seem to concentrate on levels. Squareness and angles are just as important. If you have room on the inside, i would think about dropping a false ceiling in, to keep that level. 60mm, although it sounds quite small, is going to need some get arounds, to not end up looking shite. If a new build, was it set out correctly, or has One of the walls got a lean in, or out while being built. Regardless, bit late to do anything about it now, if that is the case.
  14. I have seen it done on top of a roof balcony structure. The rails, and feet were hard plastic though. Same principal.
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