Recent content by Andy Unique

Hi, I have an outbuilding with a pair of large doors, both like the picture below. They’ve started to sag towards the centre, which might not be a surprise given their size and the lack of bracing. I’m not sure what I can do to fix it so I was hoping for some advice. I see 2 problems...

I'm starting to think I must be spectacularly thick because I can't see how to fit these together, but I can't find any discussion or video about it on the internet. Every fitting video I can find about shower panels shows them being installed without a shower enclosure, using the nice beveled...

Hi all. Sorry, I stopped getting notifications for new posts to this topic for some reason. Thanks for the additional contributions. If I can ask a semi-related question for the same project - downstream of the 3 phase distribution I have the supplies running to the two separate houses. These...

Yes, that’s the intention. The two houses are my parents and my family in a farm and barn and the arrangement is such that a chunk of what’s metered on one house is for the benefit of both anyway so they might as well be blended. I don’t foresee the two being sold separately for several decades.

Yeah, that's a good idea. TBH it probably doesn't make any difference at this stage (can't afford to do any of the fancy stuff yet) but I guess I'll know whether to plan around doing it in future. Many thanks to all of you for the quick input.

That's so simple it hadn't even occurred to me that might be OK. So that sounds like this: Given that my heat pump (etc) requirements are purely future planning at this stage, presumably all I really need to do is make sure there is an isolation switch so so that the electrician can work on...

Thankyou for the quick reply, John. No, it's possible he doesn't fully get it. We tend to have most our discussion verbally on the hoof and while I have no doubt about his practical skills this project is perhaps outside completely standard domestic stuff. Just to be clear, he is a fully...

Hi all, I am in the process of doing some once-in-a-generation changes to a property and I've got something I'd like to achieve but I don't know if it's feasible. The property is large and consists of two separate houses shared by members of the same family. There's also some fairly large...

Hi, I'm currently in the easy phase of repairing a shower that had leaked behind the tiles (the phase where I sit and wait for everything to dry out), and I'm trying to decide what to do next. The previous tiles had normal hardwood plywood behind them and it was all heavily water damaged and...

With these panel systems, if you use the sealing strip at the bottom where the panel meets the tray, what do you do at the point where you meet the shower screen? On a tiled shower the tiles/grout and bead of sealant between tiles and tray runs all the way behind the U section that connects the...

They look really good. Which panel product did you go for?

That is an excellent idea that I hadn't thought of. I presume it doesn't look as nice as a well tiled shower but appearances are a long way second to 'never bloody leaking again' on my priority list.

Yes, based on some internet research that’s what I’m planning. I’m just concentrating on cleaning the damaged material off at the moment so that whatever’s underneath can dry properly. Is aqua board the name for a type of plasterboard or is it a brand name?

I started the easy job of removing old, cracked grout in our shower yesterday so that I could re grout. Unfortunately it turns out that there has been water getting behind those tiles for quite some time and some of the tiles came off revealing that the board underneath is completely shot...

Hi, I could use some advice on how to convert my current heating system to the Wiser platform please. I currently have a combi boiler which provides both heating and hot water from its ‘heating’ circuit (the separate ‘hot water’ circuit is used to provide hot water to a part of the house not...