Recent content by TheLeester

Hi, this is me clutching at straws. We have a curved showere enclosure for a 1200x900 tray. Its about 2 years old and was installed by a builder. For some reason the door rollers which are plastic, have perished and and cracked. Trying to source replacements is proving impossible as I do not...

Hi, my 1930s house has next to no insulation in the loft. I did board with 22mm T&G and I thought with the amount of junk that is on top of it would be plenty of insulation. The insulating properties of childrens toys dont seem to be as good as I thought so I plan to put down some proper...

Hi, my 1930s house has next to no insulation in the loft. I did board with 22mm T&G and I thought with the amount of junk that is on top of it would be plenty of insulation. The insulating properties of childrens toys dont seem to be as good as I thought so I plan to put down some proper...

Apologies if I got the wrong end of the stick. It was quite a scary story and I must have come to the conclusion that hot water in the loft was a bad thing. In light of these safety devices I will rethink my extension plans.

I would like to do the exact same thing, however I was put off by an earlier post. I cant remember who or when it was posted. Essentially it was a link to a story where by way of a sequence of failures, the hot water tank in the loft space started gushing hot water out of a leak. The water came...

I am indeed in the Thames Water area. Apparently you need 'Build over agreement' from them if you plan to build within 3m of a public sewer, which they tell me ours is. They did explain to me the concept of using lintels to bridge the sewer. I think I would prefer to re-site the thing. If the...