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Hi guys, When renovating our lounge (house is vc.1900, red brick), we opened the chimney breast up intending on putting in a wood burner. The cost of the flue liner etc precludes us doing that so we initially settled on sourcing a cast iron fireplace and wooden surround off ebay - which we've...

Hi there, A year ago we bought a repossession as our first home, with ten weeks to turn it around. We were in a rush to get in the house (we were running out of time as our tenancy was due up) when we discovered the boiler needed replacing. With limited cash, a friend offered to install the...

Hi guys, since buying our house last year work has continued unabated. We're just getting round to sorting the garden - when we bought the house, the damp was horrendous - paving on paving on concrete put the ground level of our 1900's Victorian detached home about 6 inches above DPC! Very...

I've been thinking about boarding our Victorian loft. We've got about 270mm insulation (rockwool roll type)in there currently, which sits 170mm above the top of the ceiling joists (100mm). I've looked into lots of options; I've discounted 'loft legs' (price, fiddly, headroom) and running...

Our gas meter is stuck in one corner of our lounge - the pipe (yellow polyethylene?) comes in through the wall, into the main isolating valve, a flexible corrugated steel hose goes into the meter and then the gas supply immediately exits the wall and runs up outside the house, where it re-enters...

Hi, First time poster and not very technical, so please excuse my clumsy description of the issue... I seem to be having exactly the same issue as another poster from back in Nov 2010 (//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=250697) - that was unresolved then, and I'm not sure what to...