Recent content by taz777

I'm going to get the ceiling of my part-integral garage renewed by getting rid of the old plasterboard and putting new plasterboard up. However, i'd like to take the opportunity to insulate the ceiling void which meets my bathroom floor above. A builder has suggested using Celotex in the...

I've had a beautiful solid oak floor reducer ramp machined for me. It's a wide one at 3m to go across my patio doors. This area has a lot of foot traffic so I want to protect this ramp without changing its colour or making it look shiny - basically I still want it to look like natural wood...

I have a part-integral single garage with a bathroom above it. The house is fully decorated now so I want to finish off the garage. A new bathroom was installed so the garage ceiling has several small and large holes in the double-layer plasterboard. This is due to old bathroom water and waste...

I want to seal and insulate the tiny gaps around my garage door frame from the inside. I have a standard single-width up-and-over metal garage door. I noticed that the frame has been bolted into the brickwork and the tiny gaps haven't been sealed. What's the best way to ensure a good airtight...

All sorted now. Did as suggested and also cleaned all the contacts using Deoxit D5 contact cleaner.

I've got a ceiling light in my kitchen which is a S-shaped chrome bar with four spotlights on it. Each spotlight houses a GU10 bulb. The lights are adjustable in terms of where they point to. One bulb never lights, the other three work fine. Any ideas on what the problem could be? I've tried...

I have the same boiler and had the same problem. Turned out to be a leak on a plastic compression elbow joint under the living room floor. Sadly, it is likely to be a leak somwhere. Get a good heating engineer or plumber to trace the fault.

I have a multitude of pipework in my part-intergal garage. Firstly, I have the new water mains feed terminating inside the garage. It is lagged and then this supplies water to the boiler and the rest of the house. There is a fair amount of pipework along three walls of the garage. I have...

I guess you guys are right. It's very hard to learn of this issue when viewing a property. I think my neighbours are very aware of the sound transmission issue as they're always asking me if their kids disturb me with the noise. I love the house in every other respect and will just have to...

Property was built in 1955. I know that the 3 external-facing walls (front, side and rear) are cavity brick walls. I'm not sure about the party wall but I have a horrible feeling it's a single-skin breezeblock wall. How could I find out what type of wall the party wall is?

I've now had my house fully refurbished which includes full loft insulation and new double glazing and new doors. My underlay for the wood flooring downstairs is amongst the best you can get for soundproofing and so is the underlay for my carpet upstairs. My property is a 3-bed semi. My...

I have a WB 30CDi boiler installed. Does it have automatic frost protection? It's installed in an unheated garage and I was assured by the installers that there will be no issues with the water freezing or the boiler malfunctioning if the temperature in the garage got close to freezing or below...

I had an invoice and paid it. The workers were getting quite aggressive and abusive and I didn't want to risk my property being damaged after some time. That is why I paid them and new installers are fixing the driveway this week.

I just wanted them gone in the end. I'm now forking out £1,400 to put right the faults in their work. Another driveway company has evaluated their work and it will cost me £1,400 to put right - and i'll have a written guarantee for 12 months. I tried contacting the original installers but, as I...

Not really. I've let them use sub-standard products for their work and cut some corners. Bearing in mind that their's was the most expensive quote, I think they've maximised their profit on this job. They tried to charge extra for manhole covers when their quote included them. They tried...