Recent content by Noah

Thanks for all the advice. If it is OK, it should be fine because there are no kitchen units to go through - just straight down the wall. But I take your point about the pipe - it is 15mm all the way from the meter into the boiler (Concord WRS). So maybe it is not that simple and will...

Yep, naked flame on wooden vessel probably not recommended I know, but at least there'll be plenty of water about. In Surrey. Home of stockbrokers and landed gentry. Sadly I am neither and thus can't afford to write blank cheques :( Still, never mind, if it really is a 'piece of string'...

hmm, well i was told by the gas bloke who used to service the boiler that it should just be question of running the pipe off that supply. he sounded confident about it, but wouldn't do it as he's now retired. got golf to play i imagine and too loaded to care about the money. should have asked...

I have a kitchen with a wall mounted gas boiler, but no gas cooker point. I want to get a CORGI bloke in to add one but am having trouble finding one who will actually quote me instead of just giving me an hourly rate without telling me how long it might take. Can anyone tell me roughly how...

Many thanks - will get the ruler out and go measuring.

Just moved into a house with white aluminium double glazing all round, but no window locks at all :( Anyone know how to attach window locks to these things? Screwing them to the frame doesn't seem like an option. Superglue?

many thanks chris - much appreciated.

I'm looking at buying this house. Two things stand out that need doing: (1) remove old gas fire in living room and cap pipe safely so i can put a real open fireplace back in. (2) it's got a fitted electric cooker with no gas point in kitchen and i want to put in a gas point so i can have a...