Recent content by onceceltic

Many thanks for your advice Richard, when you say additional mechanical fixings I take it you are refering to the way the board is secured to the wall, not anything I need to attach the tiles with?

Hi I am looking for some advice on what board to put onto a wall I am going to tile. The wall is plastered with vinyl silk paint on it, I am turning the room into a wet room and the total area to be tiled is about 8sq M. Tiles to be hung are 300mmx600mm Porcelain tiles I wish to...

I have just finished rewiring a property I am renovating. The rewiring is complete up to the point that all that remains is to disconnect the tails from the existing CU and connect them to the new one. In the past I have simple pulled the supply fuse and switched the tails over, however as we...

I had exactly the same issue. We have a rayburn that heats the hot water and is used for cooking but is turned off in the summer. We also have a combi boiler for CH and for hot water when the rayburn is off I fitted a thermostatic mixer shower last november and it seamed to work fine for...

Thanks for the replies, thanks to corgiman I enquired with the BG salesman if he could ensure that the work is done by BG engineers, he went quiet and said NO, but if would be done to BG standards :o We have gone with a local heating firm (Corgi registered and spoken to peolpe in the area...

We have just had a quote from British Gas to remove a conventional gravity fed heating and hot water system ( 7 Rads, cylinder and pipework is 40+ years old and Baxi boiler although fully working is 22 years old) and replace all with a combi condensing system into a 3 bed bungalow. The price...