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i have old oak floorboards in my living room. at the moment they look like they are completely untreated (there is no varnish-like sheen to them). i am going to get them professionally cleaned and then want to add a preservative coating to them, my choices seem to be Ronseal Diamond Hard...

i live in a 100yr+ farmers cottage which i'm slowly sorting out. i have finally reached the stage for carpets! (woohoo... 10 months solid work later!) the living room (ground floor) was covered with laminate flooring so i pulled this up this morning. Beneath it was some rather skanky...

i presently have a 3-lamp track light attached to the ceiling in the eves of my loft bedroom... i would like to replace this with three individual pendants spaced a little further apart. the cable supplying power to the track light has one single dedicated light switch (ie. not controlled by...

the gate valves are new, but that wouldn't explain how the water pressure can begin to drop as the shower runs... ?

[/url] thanks again for your reply... the hot water cylinder is existing from before... in the previous installation, i had it connected to a salamander ct50 twin-ended pump and it worked fine... as for whether it's vented... i have no idea? how would i establish this, and what is the...

thanks for that Richard. i have a seperate header tank right up at the very top of the eaves (approx 8ft above and 6ft laterally away from the hot water tank) the issue is with the shower immediately adjacent to the pump. the pipe from the pump descends below the floor, passing across the...

any ideas?

i have a new techflow negative head twin-ended pump for supplying a shower (on the same floor as the hot water tank) and a loft bathroom. when the pump was fitted, i also had the techflange fitted to the tank (drilled in to the side of the tank, approx 3/4 of the way up the tank). the pump...

i have just a nice shiny new Techflow QT-80-2 NHE twin-ended negative head pump fitted to supply a shower (adjacent to tank and pump) and full bathroom (above, hence negative head part). With the pump, I had a Techflange fitted (essentially an essex flange)... geat stuff except for one...

i've just put a new shower in and am having problems with it. the shower is a single control thermostatic unit connected to a 6" rose. the single lever goes from cold to hot in about 3-4 turns (it came from trueshopping.co.uk). the shower is connected to the cold water supply and hot water...

well i'm going for position A... I bought an 100mm Expelair 230vAC timer extractor from Screwfix today... it's IPX5 rated which I believe is good for Zone 1 (ie. above the bath). Now I just need to sort out an RCD switch... might just leave that one to the electrician to specify...

Here is a diagram of the bathroom looking back towards the gable end wall. The sink will be on the right facing up against the internal vertical wall. The approx dimensions can be gauged by the doorframe (room approx 3m wide with 1m verticals to each side) So I guess the question...

I'm going to speak with Building Control this afternoon... with regards to things looking ugly... all the piping will be hidden behind a false wall (the room is in the eves, so we will build false 1m high vertical walls to each side with the waste and supply pipes hidden behind). as for...

thanks guys... that does seem to make sense to me... will give it a go tonight...

if i go down the route of sticking the fan through the wall at the gable end of the house, it will mean that the fan is at the highest position in the room (which i presume is a good thing), but is directly above the bath... does this mean that I have to use a 12v fan as it will be classed as...

Here is a basic sketch of the proposed order in the waste system. I'm not 100% sure why we cannot add a seperate waste entry to the stack for the bath & sink, but my builder tells me it isn't possible as the existing fitting (which I think is some kind of T/inspection end, which I guess...

Option 1. of using a 12v fan makes sense, but Option 3. of using a tile vent might also do the trick... i might look into that one now... thanks