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I have Welsh slate coping stones on top of my brick built garden wall. The wall is a double-skin red brick type and the slates on the top are about 30cm x 30cm. The slates have come off and need fixing back on but I have been given conflicting advice about how best to do so - one mate said that...

Am thinking of fitting interior (pine) french doors to divide two rooms which are currently open plan. The gap is 1580mm wide. Any ideas of a decent supplier of such doors, plus the frame to fit them to, as there are currently no doors there so no frame already in place (solid wall on either...

I get your point about the hot air rising, but am relying on the fact that these are units that are specifically advertised for mounting high on a wall and for heating a room. The one I'm going for is advertised as being suitable for a consevatory and the kw/BTU output is more than enough for...

Magic. Thanks for the great advice - much appreciated.

Hi ban-all-sheds, The unit that I'm looking at is specifically designed for being mounted up on a wall and the fan blows heat out through a louvred grill at the bottom, pushing the hot air downwards. The research I've done online says that the Myson one I'm looking at is specifically desinged...

I've had a quote for £1600 (plus £300-£400 for scaffold) to paint the exterior (4 walls) of my detached house and have been told it will take roughly 5 days. Is there a good/bad time of year to be painting the exterior of a rendered house - obviously screaming hot sun and driving rain aren't...

Chris5, That's brilliant - just what I was looking for. Am happy to to have it chased out, if only to keep it tidy and keep the wife pleased. :wink: Will get onto a spark. Thanks again.

Hi all, I'm hoping to buy a fan convector heater to be fitted in my conservatory (a Myson Hi-Line) and the installation manual I've found online says that I should flush my central heating system before fitting the unit to the existing pipes (there used to be an old Myson unit where I am hoping...

Hi all, I'm hoping to buy a fan convector heater to be fitted in my conservatory (a Myson Hi-Line) and the installation manual I've found online says that it will need a 3A fused spur for power. The fan will be wall-mounted up high. At ground level, immediately below where the fan will be...

Myson! That was the brand the old one was. You're a solid gold genius Boilerman2!!!! As I live in Wales :cry: cooling it down in the summer isn't too much of a priority. Have looked into A/C but the way in which the conservatory is built and the positioning of the house in relation to...

Hi all, Have bought a house with a conservatory which, mounted high up on the wall, used to have some sort of heating/cooling fan contraption which I'd like to replace. There are two pipes coming out of the wall, which I assume are coming off the central heating and these fed into an...

Thanks very much. Was thinking that I wouldn't contact the Council/Highways, especially since my neighbours will just be happy to see a wall built, rather than the open wasteland that is there at the moment, so I don't think I'll get shopped!

Thanks for the advice everyone. Am gonna try to attack the problem this weekend. Unfortunately we are no longer speaking to the brother-in-law (unconnected matter!!!) so getting a replacement outta him is a non-starter! :(

My half-witted brother-in-law fitted my bath and taps, but unfortunately cut the holes for the taps way too large (measure twice, cut once....). He added a couple of large, fairly solid plastic "washers" between the tap and the acrylic bath and siliconed them in place, but they have begun to...

I am looking to have a garden wall built along the front edge of my front garden, which runs long the pavement outside the property. The wall will be around 1m high, 3.5m long, then a gate into the garden path up to my front door, then a further 4m length of wall the other side of the gate. I'll...

Brilliant reply - thanks very much for your prompt reply. The dining room is carpeted and the conservatory is tiled, so I'll put in a threshold to allow for a bottom bolt too.

I've got inward opening 'tilt & turn' windows in my entire house (put in by previous owner) and they are a bit of a nightmare. They get caught on curtains, you have to clear off the windoww sill every time you want to open them, if you have vertical slatted blinds on the window, like I have, the...

I want to put doors between my dining room and conservatory where there is currently just an opening in the wall. I replaced all the internal doors in my house last year with untreated, knotty pine doors and would like this new doorway to have the exact same doors. Since the french doors they do...

My dining room currently leads straight into my conservatory through an archway (the arched bit at the top is one of those plaster covered mesh ones, so presumably easy to rip out if necessary). The room gets very cold in winter and very hot in summer so I'm hoping to put doors in the archway...

Thanks to all for your advice. Ended up not as bad as I feared as the damaged area was restricted to just a couple of tiles worth. The rest of the tiles came up fine, so I'm just having to do a couple of small bits of patching with mortar. Thanks very much once again.