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I'm in the process of redoing my basement, I've ripped everything out back to timber stud/brick. And opened up two rooms as one large room. I have to drop the ceiling by 40mm due to previous plumbing. I'd like to help prevent sound getting from the basement upto the living room/kitchen above. I was ...

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I'm putting up a partition wall in the basement to house a marine fish tank, and it'll have the effect of being sunk into the wall,but will have access with a door further down. I'd like to make the rest of this wall stand out, and I'm thinking of the chunky splitface tiles. But as you can imagine, ...

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I have built a raised patio which is currently about 450mm above the grass, which I'm currently digging out a trench ready to lay a step down. Once this step is done, I'm then onto the next step of wanting to put astroturf. I'll be raising the grass area up by at least 100mm (about 2.4m x 8m area). ...

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I get you. So the problems with lofts/ceilings are the joists actually bending? So increasing the height reduces it flexing? Not sure exactly what the spans are, I've just screwed in a load of loft legs & loft panels on those (due to the insulation thickness) just so I can store bits up there un...

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I may be missing something? But if I'm just glueing & screwing 6*2 ontop of the existing ones, wouldn't the weight still be the same pushing down onto the ceiling when I lay boards down?

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I have recently moved house, and am in the process of blocking off all the windows above the doors upstairs, and taking all the doors out downstairs and am plastering over the door frames. Now I've done 1 job above the door which turned out absolutely fine (it is only a small patch) But. When it cam...

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Hi. I'm waiting on some loft board legs to install some boards above the insulation to store boxes etc. But long term, I want to have the whole article boarded out properly to build a massive train/scalextric set for the boy. Anyway, I (think) know that the beams are only there to hold the ceiling u...

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Sounds daft. But here it is. Have a semi detached house which is on a slope. It has a basement with door access down by the back garden. There are two rooms divided along the length of the basement which is about half the width of the house, running the entire length. Now.... where the brick wall is...

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