Recent content by Bloosman

Cheers guys, I'll give this a look... I may just go down the route of a new system with combi boiler if it's gonna cost too much...

Hi, Our house has a central heating system which is fed from a multi-fuel stove with a back boiler. The stove is on the ground floor, with pipework going up to the first floor and into a hot water tank, thereafter feeding 9 radiators. The hot water tank itself is fed by a cold water storage...

Thanks, that was what I was looking to do...insulation against wall, cable run and then plasterboard. And yes, it's a ring circuit in 2.5mm with a 32a circuit breaker.

Can I re-open this thread...? Insulation (ThermaFleece) now being fitted behind plasterboarding...but what should I do about cable runs to sockets...??? Can the cable be against the insulation or should it be held apart somehow...???

Thanks for that...getting a builder in to have a look.... Upstairs flooring runs at right angles to the joists, and the portion of wall I'm wanting to open up (about 7 feet in length), runs in the same direction as the joists.... However, the addition of dormers etc. to the first floor, and...

We live in an old, stone built cottage of one and a half storeys, with 2 x bedrooms and a bathroom situated in what is basically the roof space. The joists holding up the roof run from the front to the back of the building, a simple rectangle. On the ground floor, there is a lounge to one end...

Thanks for that...I'll give it a read...similar looking building (apart from my full length flat roof dormer). The room I'm working on is bottom right. I also have a steading attached to this wall, slightly lower in height.

Hi...the building is not listed. It's an old detached Scottish croft cottage built mainly from stone/lime mortar with dressed stone around the windows and doors. All I am doing is replacing the internal walls which were lathe and plaster on a stud timber frame, both of which were in a very poor...

Hi, I am currently re-furbing a downstairs room, replacing the old plaster with drywall, attached to a new timber frame. Three of the walls are external walls, which are very old stone and lime construction - no cavity. I would like to insulate these walls and wondered if I require an air gap...

Many thanks folks...problem now seems to be fixed... The small section of pipework leading from the feed to the ballcock connection (1/2" BSP, not 3/4"...doh) was in quite poor shape, and there was NO sign of a fibre washer, so it appears to have totally disintegrated over the years (possibly...

I changed the entire ballcock assembly...the "leak" is where the ballcock projects outside the tank and meets the water feed pipe...no washer there...(that I'm aware of...)

Hi, Following the recent cold snap, during which our cold water tank on the first floor began overflowing, the water from the "drip" froze on a flat roof, causing issues around a joint in the felt...:-( So tonight, armed with a new ballcock, I spent the good part of 2 hours trying to remove...

Ree, The "walls" I am ripping out are the stud plaster walls built against the three external stone walls and the fourth internal room dividing wall. This is the only ground floor room in the house with suspended timber floors, the rest are solid concrete. The joists and flooring were all...

I am currently ripping back the internal walls of a downstairs room, getting rid of the last remnants of lath & plaster in our house. Initially, the removal of the lath & plaster from the window wall to the front of the house left a damp smell for a few days, but this has since dissipated and I...

Hi, We have a small porch to the front of our house with glass around two sides and a full height wall along the third side.. It measures approximately 8' x 6 ' and is currently fitted with a flat roof :( I would very much like to build a double pitched roof fitted with clear plastic...