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Hi all Our garage conversion saga continues. It is a single skin blockwork construction My question is, is it feasible to add a second internal cavity wall? The blocks would be on top of the concrete slab inside. I'd assume the cavity wall would need tying somehow to the existing wall? The...

Hi everyone I have a Baxi neta 28 with a hive wired in. Can I just get a double check on my wiring if possible please. It has the clock below fitted in, do I need to remove this clock? Thank you

Hi everyone Pretty much the title really We moved into this house in October, it has a Baxi neta tec 28 GA fitted with a hive thermostat for central heating control only wired to low voltage controls Has been working fantastic but since we had our electric smart meter installed, the boiler...

Hi all, After happening across a cracking deal for 150mm celotex-type boards, I purchased a sufficient quantity to insulate the roof in the concrete block built garage the previous owners had partially built. The current roof construction is 6x2 joists which was overboarded and felted...

Hi all We've inherited a partially built single skin concrete block outbuilding and I'm trying to figure out how best to insulate the roof/ceiling. The current felt roof is going to be replaced with an epdm roof right over the top after being overboarded I have attached photos of the current...

Hi all We've recently moved into a new house where the previous owner built a fairly large (4m X 6m) concrete block shed/building but left it largely unfinished. When we viewed the house the walls were already up and the frame for the roof, he simply finished it with a felt roof and left it at...

Hi all We had our first home renovated from top to bottom in summer 2015, its starting to show the cracks where the builder bodged things or stuff has just gone plain wrong around the bath where it meets the corner of the room, we have large 30cm x 60cm white tiles, the tiles which meet the...

Hi all Last week we had a bit of a power cut/brown out and immediately after the alarm went off, I reset using the pin and it made all of its happy noises as though it was unset but the external bellbox/sounder on the front of the house would not stop blaring! We have a Veritas r8 system fitted...

Hi all! I've received my Hive2 from amazon and i'm trying to figure out how to wire this in. the system is set as a combi boiler we do not currently have a thermostat at all, the boiler has a manual timer fitted to it (the kind where you move the little plastic tabs) I'm a little stuck as to...

Hi All, we've moved into our house as of 6 months ago and now that the temperatures are starting to drop we're realising we would quite like some sort of wireless boiler control so we can switch on the heating from our bedroom for a nice toasty living room! what sort of boiler control is...

Hi all... almost got our house complete...however hit a roadblock with the stupid ikea sink we went with...now too late to swap out as i've already cut the worktop amongst other stuff the stupid, idiotic, craply designed 'atlant' waste system... does anyone know of any alternative that...

Hi all we're in the process of renovating our first home and the bathroom is turning into a tricky one... it's got very old plaster in there, and the walls aren't even, particularly the wall where we want to move the bathtub to... so... three options to correct this: 1) tile straight...

Hi all! We're in the process of having a complete home rewire done along with plumbing new ceilings and new decor In the kitchen my dear wife has decided she'd like some down lights We've roughly worked out with the electrician that about 8 would be sufficient The room is 5m long and...

Mornin all Have got a contractor coming in over the weekend and he's asked me to think about any extra wires I'd like him to run. Such as to future proof I'm assuming Thus far the list I have come up with is: CCTV wiring throughout (cover all entry points and side passageway) Ethernet...

Hello all New homeowner here looking for some plumbing advice The house we've bought has got an old 'back boiler' system. Which was temperamental at best of times according to lady we bought it from. In short, we want to rip out all the old plumbing whilst the carpets are up and get a...