Recent content by Andy7

lol Agile.

Sounds reasonable Razor, given the heat exchanger is only a handful of years old. Oh, and thanks for the vote of confidence over the bathroom plumbing(!) you're all heart.

This ought to be a quick one for someone. My Worcester Bosch combi (24cdi, I think?) boiler is getting a little long int the tooth, but I'm going to keep her going for another season or two. Right now, whenever the DWH is on (specifically, noticed when the shower is running), the rads heat up...

I bet there's an App for that!

You guys! :roll: Still,thanks for a 'lively and informative discussion'. I did a little bit of stocktaking this afternoon and I have just enough 18mm OSB3 to clad the inside on the longest and weakest side. The one with the windows. The timber build is three sides extending a block...

Oh, I ought to add that there's only a couple of places where the studs are 1200mm and the timber part is an extension of a sturdy block work construction so it's already pretty stable. But point taken nonetheless.

Sound advice, and that settles it for me. Extra studs going in on Monday to 600mm centres. I'm putting vapour barrier under the PB anyhow, so should be pretty airtight. Thx

Hi, I'm weighing up adding some extra studs in my timber construction garden office to help stabilise the plasterboard verses the thermal bridging that will cost me. At present I have (from outside) 20mm british cedar cladding 25mm treated battens to hold cladding vapour membrane 18mm...

Just got back from Screwfix and indeed it IS a #3 Now that I've actually taken some time to look at the bits, I can tell them apart. Shame that they don't show what size bit is needed int he spec for non-trade diy'ers like myself.

Thanks, both. The bits I wanted were all out of stock for delivery from Screwfix, then I found out that there's a warehouse just nearby - gonna stock up on PZ1-3 to cover all my bases like big-all suggests. All my bits are knackered anyhow, so no harm in getting a fistful of bits - I have...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can zip me a quick reply to this? I'm buying a couple more boxes of Turbogold 6x80 / 90 mm screws from screwfix - they're BRILLIANT screws compares with some of the other rubbish I've used. They have lovely deep recesses for the driver bit and HARDLY ever slip when...

Just want a sanity check on this... I've seen various diagrams showing the installation of celotex td4126 etc (~100mm insulation with 5.5mm ply, you know the stuff). Most of them show it fixed directly to the joists and some of them show it mounted on board. My question is: mounting the...

Thanks, that was the answer I was hoping for :)

I'm building a timber garden office and have my footings all built, beafutifully level and square now! (hooray). My joists are seated on top of a ring of high density blocks with the joists about 300-400mm above soil. (I've compacted it down too, just to make it easier to work there) The...

After an age hunting down what was occasionally tripping my RCD, I found that the culprit was my dishwasher, a Bosch Logixx slimline. It had occasionally not drained properly, and seemed to improve after cleaning the filters etc. Now, it seems to be tripping the RCD when it's about 45 mins...