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Thank you. It'll be a small utility room but it's cheaper than the 40k we've been quoted for a not much larger external one.

Sorry if it's a daft or obvious question Also I did wonder that whilst it may not be structural could it be providing some support to that external wall?

Hi I have a small 1.8m X 2m downstairs room which currently houses the consumer units, incoming gas main, boiler, alarm system, and incoming water main, and drainage pipes for the downstairs bathroom which is adjacent. Its a sort of L shape at the moment as the adjacent bathroom borrows space...

Hi all Currently got a 10m wide conservatory and looking to get rid. Turns out the floor is insulated and the stud walls are 800mm foundations, and it was all laid at the same time as the main part of the house extension which was done in the 90s. We've had an architect draw up plans to use...

It's an approx 200sqm bungalow, 5 bedroom, converted so there is an upstairs, has 3 bathrooms, 3 showers, 1 bath. The bath and one of the showers is ground floor right next to where the boiler currently is, which is where I'd like the new tank to go ideally. 12 rads, 35sqm of underfloor going...

What's the flow rate in that part of your town out of interest? Have you fitted lots of unvented to 15lpm supplies and customers happy? It's a big expense (7k) for me anyway and I really need the space that's currently taken up by the tanks etc, to move that stuff downstairs. I'm just trying...

Hi madrab, thanks. So I'm only getting 15Lpm at the moment. If I replace that 15mm with a 21 to 22mm pipe will I get more flow? I've been advised to get a unvented unistor cylinder but having taken it upon myself to read the specs they recommend 25lpm flow rate. My incoming main is a blue...

Yeh fensa is just a piece of paper really. I doubt anyone has ever been brought to task by them.

Think I had something similar with window fitters this year. They didn't close the cavity and they didn't foam around the window. There are no gaps into the room but somehow I guess there must be a draught. I feel for you OP. It's a minefield out there with blaggers and liars everywhere.

Also vaillant or worcester bosch for system boilers? I had settled on a Vaillant ecotec plus 625 System boiler but the latest heating guy said he only fits the "pure" ones. I can't find much sensible info on what the actual differences are. Also is weather compensation needed? I had one quote...

Thanks, condensation is a good call.

Thanks Guys, BTW FWIW i've had 5 people around including 2 heat geeks Nobody has asked about occupants and number of bedrooms until i've volunteered it. Nobody has looked at existing rads Nobody has done a heat loss calc. 3 have done a flow test, including the two heat geeks, but one of those...

No, system boiler for system boiler and unvented cylinder, from current open vent Y plan. Just been googling, i think its called a transition fitting and can accept 15-21mm pipes. The suggestion was to increase the incoming copper side of the main from 15mm (as shown) to 22mm to the unvented...

Hello My incoming water main from the street is a blue plastic pipe. I had a heating engineer in to give a quote for a new boiler and he said that because the incoming pipe is blue, it must be a 20mm so we should upgrade the copper pipe coming out of the black thing to 22mm - is that correct...

Wish it was. I'm getting estimates of nearly double that.

Thanks woody. I'm going to take this up with the architect as that's what I thought we were getting. To say I'm ****ed off with this whole process is an understatement.

Thanks. When you put it like that it sounds so simple. I guess it should be too. But the responses from the builders have constraints and small print. For example, one excluded paint whereas our spec was for mist coat and two coats of emulsion. One has external render and painted, the other...

Thanks. Best quote I've had so far came in today at £3900 psqm and it's a 14sqm extension but does have a 35sqm conservatory to demolish, there are 3 velux windows in the new extension, and a steel required as we open the kitchen into it. On the flipside the conservatory foundations are being...

Quick Q for those who know. I've heard guestimations for extensions as being around £2500 sqm for single storey extension. Is that finished as in electrics, plaster etc, or just empty shell? And, Does that include any sort of demolition or breaking through from the main building, oooh, like...

The 12k was stamp duty wasn't it, so unless you're buying under threshold there is no way to spend it on a mini cooper instead. In any case, its not building quotes related so please take your cooper back to the hair salon :D