Recent content by alan131

Thank you for that, I'll check it out. :-)

Thanks very much for that. Sorry doing respite care atm, not much thinking time. Nit found anything yet that quite matches but will keep looking. Thanks again.

Hi. My loft - in a 1930ish house - has had pigeons roosting in it for an extended period some years ago. (Its actually top flar in a conversion) I have removed the old heavily contaminated insulation and vacuumed out most of the droppings. A joyful task. I want to disinfect loft. Local...

Any tips on getting the best 300mm wide use out of it please? I imagine cutting a 60 mm fill strip will be a pain.....

Sorry I was being an idiot. I'm insulating between ceiling joists in the loft. Sorry, really tired atm and well, what can i say. It was only contemplating foil that i realised my error

Hi. I have a loft which has joists with gaps between about 300mm a few a little more maybe 310. I need to insulate cheaply as possible to 100mm. All the standard roll insulation i can find is 1140 wide. Apart from discarding the last 240, or fiddling about to cut and fit two strips together...

Part of some wrk done with a grant from council , it was council person who ho recommended builder In a private capacity. Same person from council inspect tomorrow and pay direct to him.

Council insist one person responsible for everything - it was a refurb with carpets ( badly laid ) some decorating , elec, new boiler...pLaster outside i think, door hung with floorboafd saw....

am i right to think fixing this is going to be worse than the original becaise i'll have to get all the plaster off first? Anybody able to give me a rough idea of time or cost please? Its about 5 sq meters all under 6ft from floor level... .thanks vety much alan

No, if it was bco i would not be worried. Because these stairs are a replacement, do not involve installing a lintle, and are not the fire escape route they do not need to be inspected by the bco, only need to be compliant. The council official inspecting the work is the same person who...

Good idea, i'll give it a go. Thank you :)

Yes... disappointed doesn't cover it. I've lived there for about 15 years and always put off building new stairs partly by cost and partly by lack of understanding of the rules and how to work out timber sizes or support them properly. I've retired and moved in with someone else, Am...

House is in essex, built around 1930....

Thanks very much for that. I'm trying to decide if I should just accept it or if it's bad enough say no to. I'm letting the flat for a bit before i sell, so wont see if it deteriorates And frankly it worries the .... out of me.

Hi all. I'm hoping for some advice about an outside staircase. Single storey. A builder has made this, but all the treads are fixed to the stringers with three screws at each end, into the endgrain, just butt joint. In places you can see light between the end of the tread and the stringer...