Recent content by boosh2000

Sorry - another question in reply, Shytalkz, sorry. Does the wood frame have to be secured to the concrete through the membrane? If so, how?

Well, it's partly to save money on heating, but also because we don't use it at the moment except when we have to simply because it's so bloody cold, so that's our rent down the drain.

Thanks for all this. I presume nogs are braces (doh!). I was thinking that I might have to have a 400mm grid across the whole floor area, so this is much easier than that. Would I also need to add these braces around the edge of the room (where the skirting would normally go) to hold up the...

Thanks for the advice, Shytalkz. I think my next task would be the floor rather than the walls (I quite like the look of the tiles and the concrete is easily as cold as them). So what size timber would I use to make a frame for the suspended floor, what thickness chipboard and what's the...

Hi all I'm hoping you can give me some advice. I rent a workshop and need to know the cheapest method of making it habitable: through insulating and heating. It gets no direct sunlight and used to be a butchers shop, so is tiled. The floor is concrete, the ceiling is (now) suspended and when...

As it's clay, you could consider digging a pond for the water to flow into.

Phew! (Is that right? :) ) So I've been worrying about nothing? I was beginning to think this might be a soak away because the soil pipe and other drains run away behind the row of houses (I know because I've had to blast them clear with a hose before now). I'd just managed to convince myself...

:roll: I've just dig it all to have a look and covered it up again. :lol: I don't think I've damaged anything severely. It is in a line from where the drainpipe drains and the pavement. The garden (and the house) is raised from the pavement by a couple of feet. Halfway across the...

It's definitely not gas (fortunately) because we don't have a gas supply in the village. It was a flat yellow plastic sheet about a foot under where the lawn used to be and there seemed to be rubble underneath it (but the there's a lot of rubble in the ground anyway). I suppose I'll have...

If digging just a foot - 18 inches down is it possible to put a garden fork through the main drain? And how would you know it had happened? I was digging my front lawn and about 8" down pirced some yellow plastic with stones and stuff underneath. I haven't done much more investigation, but I...

Calling someone a grease monkey is hardly the best foot to start on.

Anybody know anything about Godin lpg stoves?

Hi all My mother in law has a godin 3430 LPG stove and the pilot light is refusing to stay on. She got a company in who sent someone to look at it, took it apart, cleaned it, left without testing it and left it with exactly the same problem it had before he arrived (he'd also arrived 2 hours...

I'm trying to do my own basic servicing and using the garage for anything to do with brakes (don't trust my life to my own handywork!) and MOTs. After safely getting through oil changes and oil / air filter changes in the past, this time I was going to replace the fuel filter. I took the...

Okay, my business has just moved into an old butchers shop and this is now our workshop. Trouble is that it was a lumber room for 15 years and needs work. A past leak in the roof meant that the internal ceiling had been removed, so it's open to the corrugated roof (there are timbers there to...