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Relocating where the electric cooker will be located for a new fitted kitchen. Not decided which oven to fit yet or exactly where in the kitchen it will be located, cable length is likely to be between 3m and 12m from the CU laid behind a few inches of insulation (basement kitchen at the back of...

Hi, I've fitted an electric shower and looking for a suitable fuse box. Buying/fitting everything myself up until dealing with the mains electricity since that's illegal. The manual for the shower is at http://www.creda-showers.com/downloads top right image with description "Creda 550C...

That would explain why on Google I only found one place in the UK selling them in the top 50 search results. ah well :-( Wasn't planning on fitting myself as you have to be Corgi registered. Out of interest what can you legally DIY regarding a new boiler, is it just the gas/elec supply...

Maybe I'm underestimating the cost of a TRV (assumed under £10 each based on Screwfix prices?) so £30 for 10mins works seems high to me. The current boiler is quite old (at least 20 years) and if I recall correctly hasn't been serviced in over a decade (vaguely recall seeing late 80s on a...

I never thought to check in detail, but where I replaced a section of brickwork (about 30 bricks under a new DG window) it looked like a cavity. I'll check it out next time I'm there. David

Need to replace an old Worchester 2+ Heatslave floor combi boiler (apparently one of the first combi boilers). The house is an ex guesthouse on 4 levels (basement to converted attic) that used to have hot water in most rooms, but we've removed most of it now since we plan to use it for...

The plan is to overboard the ceilings since the current plaster isn't doing so well, which should make it a lot easier to skim. I haven't been rude though, I've been sarcastic to Joe-90 for his completely unhelpful approach and comments that we'll be devaluing the property by 25K! BTW if...

I made a post in this thread with two images (before and after) but it was deleted the next time I checked! Are you not allowed to post images here or something? Also my sig was deleted once as well (do the owners of this forum have a problem with sigs as well)? It was a single link, the same...

Thanks very much for the tips, that's the sort of info I was looking for. We had our flat roofs redone this week (felt replaced with fibre glass, they haven't done them all yet), one of the roofers has developed a fair number of properties in the past (over 25) and suggested using cement for...

Where the heck did you pull those ridiculous figures from? Oh wait, I have a fair idea :-) Does anyone other than the illigitamate child of Tommy Cooper have any comments on the original question? David

From what I've said how did we plaster then? Note we haven't started on the walls with the wood going though the brickwork yet as we don't have enough information to decide how to do that area (that's why I asked the question here). The walls we did had been reskmimmed (probably 20 years...

Funnily enough I started out as a scientist (studied at Uni to be a research scientist, Geneticist) so I suppose rocket science is less alien to me than plastering :-) We (myself) and eldest sone (14years) went to the house yesterday and plastered a couple of walls (re skimmed anyway) and it...

It's going to be our home as soon as it's 1/4 done, we plan to move in when the top floor is complete so I'm not travelling 80 miles in a day to do work on the house. David

We are talking here about putting a substance on a wall and smoothing it out. It's not rocket science, but like any skill takes a little time to master. Fortunately I don't need to be a master at it, just good enough to end with smooth walls where it matters Only time will tell though, will...

Have a lot of rooms in an old 4 storey victorian house that have plaster problems, also near enough all ceilings have problems (about 15 rooms worth) so need to do sometihng about them. For example in the attic conversion There's a strip of wood at the level of the base of the original roof...

I just joined the forum and Rooftec is doing the flat roofs of our recently aquired house in Skegness on the 6th April (couple of days from now). Will be blogging about it at http://www.oneworldcoffee.com/ when it's done (will take some pictures and moan a lot if not happy :-)). We got...