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I already have a ladder down to the cellar. Store a few things down there. But I was thinking long term to make it residential.

Hi, My cellar is about 10 feet high and 6 feet is under ground level. It is uninhabited and on the ground is a few york stones and earth. The house was constructed in approx. 1810. I am going to put a staircase in but wasn't sure what to do about the bottom of the staircase. Should I just...

Hi, Just wondering what do the building regs say about vertical clearances from the top of your stove? I saw on a website that it said: "You must have 225mm above the stove to non combustible materials."...

Hi, I have exposed the fireplace by removing the plaster which was covering it. However, I am a complete building and DIY novice, and dont know how to go about opening the fireplace and securing it properly. If you look at the uploaded images (in the album - FirePlace 2) you will see that...

Thank you everyone for your advice. (tim00 - I am not sure what some of those acronyms mean. I am a complete novice) I decided to smash open the concrete. I have uploaded some more pics. It seems that the leak occurs pretty much in the region where the cast iron pipe enters in to the concrete...

If you look closely you can see the trickling leak.

This is where the leak is occurring.

Exposed

Hi, The downspout that collects the water from my roof runs down the side of my house and disappears through a stone slab. The water collected on the roof eventually passes down a further meter or so underground and then moves underground away from the house approx. 2 meters and out of the...

haha :-) Yes, I have seen them but not the ends of them... because the aerial is on my neighbours house and the cables pass through the joining wall from his loft in to mine. Do you think I should just cut the wire at the point where I can get to it, to inject the signal? thanks again

Many thanks for your response and help! However, how can I inject the RF signal into the cable when I cannot get to the end of it?? :-s

Hi, I am new on the forum. Hope you can help me out. Here's the situation. I know there are 2 TV aerial cables running down through my bedroom wall. (How? Because I have seen them run down in to the wall from within the loft space). One of them clearly goes to the TV aerial output...