Search results

About to start installing pipework from radiators to proposed new boiler location. My house is a strange shape and the flow/return pipes will each be 16m in a straght line. It has occured to me that once the heatings on, these could expand and pull on the pipes that feed off to the...

Hi guys, I've removed the ceiling on a single storey extension and found the plasterboard damp, crumbly and covered with mould on the top (roof void) surface. Now that the roofs exposed, I can see the felt has a number of holes and when there is strong wind and sustained rain, water drips...

Having new bolier fitted shortly. Intended to construct airing cupboard around boiler (with the insides removable for maintenance etc.). I've noticed a few reports of houses buring down after fires started in airing cupboards containing boilers. Would anyone have an informed opinion if such...

Hi, I'm installing new radiators and pipework before getting a corgi in to commisiion a new boiler. Upstairs, the rooms are smallish and I'm putting a rad in each room under the windows. Downstairs there's a large, long room 13.9m x 4.6m (45'x15') with all five windows in one of the...

The inlaws wanted to put a solid oak floor in their new conservatory. After looking at the posts here I've suggested that solid and laminate are out and they need to go for engineered. I think I read somewhere that solid bamboo was very tolerant of moisture/temperature changes - and thus may...

Firstly a thankyou to WoodYouLike and the rest of you. Advice you've given to other posters has preventing me from ruining 70 sq meters of flooring. Earlier this year I bought (on impulse) a pallet of 83mm wide 18mm Solid Oak Flooring from B&Q intending to secret nail it to chipboard (PC was...

I've 22 joists (pine 200mm x 50mm x 3600mm) that I've just removed from their RSJ supports (trying to straighten everything up before I install new floors/ceilings/walls). Being tight with money I intend to reuse them. My question - is there any reason to replace them with new ones? I...

My first post - probably obvious to you guys, but I'm looked for a few hours and can't find an answer. I'm planning to replace the all the ceilings, floors and stud walls in my house becasue I'm changing the layout. (there are no internal structural walls - all the joists are supported by...