Recent content by brk1

Thanks for that Tony, I don't know if a 240FF is the same as 240BF but basically its CH return and flow left side of the boiler, cold feed/hot water next to them with gas supply on the right side of the boiler with a drain pipe between the gas and domestic water pipes.New Boiler widths are the...

Thanks guys, sounds better than needing a new boiler just yet, only fitted new worktops a couple of years back, was hoping not to have to alter that side of the kitchen if the pipes had to be changed to suit a new boiler. What is the most reliable boiler these days when the time does come to...

Just some advice from some combi boiler experts, I'm well aware it's about time I had a new modern combi fitted to replace my aged boiler but wasn't hoping to incur that cost quite so soon after Xmas. Boiler is a Worcester 240 BF , been working flawlessly for years but suddenly last night...

By the look of them it's one of two, both similar, could be earthstone as they call it in B & poo , thats about £320 for a 1.8m length and is basically resin on chipboard comes out at about 30mm thick or could be Corian, basically another resin based product again very expensive ,look here...

To tell you the truth that insulation won't make much difference at all, because your new timbers will be sitting directly on top of the old ones (solid contact) and that's what transfers the noise,I was going to do the whole of my kitchen ceiling but my m8 at work had just done the same to his...

Thank you, I just wanted to be sure, If I go ahead and get a new cooker bought anf fitted, I'll have to re-tile where the old bracket was, I basically looked at a few to see if they all had a slot in an industry standard defined space, with gas safety regs changing so often it made me wonder, a...

Just use a normal mortice latch, basically all these townhouses as they're called (3 storey) that are always built these days ,virtually all the doors inside these houses have to be fire door (apart from cuboards etc) then some of those have to be as well, but they still get the standard latch...

Before you all jump down my throat for daring to ask about gas related stuff :) , how do the regs get interpreted these days, after doing up my kitchen I looked into maybe getting a new cooker, my old cooker has a slot for the stability bracket, all the new cookers I have looked at no longer...

You shouldn't have a problem raising your floor, but you might have problems later if anything goes wrong in your kitchen, is there any pipework in the ceiling, would there ever be a problem with any electrics in your kitchen, a lot of people get to their kitchen services through there upstairs...

Thank you, I'll get enough tiles to go behind the cooker now.

After re-plastering the kitchen anf getting it upright again the gas bayonet to the cooker is still sitting there just fine, but I would like to tile behind the cooker right to the skirting board, it's one of those standard elbow types, if I tile around the elbow then the gas hose won't go on, I...

I actually cut a bit off in the end and tried it end to end of several bits and it matched them all, was a long time ago when I last did some coving, it may well have been the same end to end but it was definitely marked up as wall edge, ceiling edge, probably scrapped the idea these day's, all...

Haven't fitted any coving in ages, sure last time I did the coving, it had a celing edge and a wall edge, just opened the cove box up and now it looks the same both sides, is all the coving universal on all edges now, theres no marking on the covind bto say ceiling or wall edge, thought I'd just...

The large sheets might me more cost effective, but a 2.4m x 600mm (don't buy those silly 1.2 m boards unless that's all you can get through your trap door ) chipboard sheet will save you a lot of cutting time and will fit through all but the smallest of trap doors, then when you push the tongues...

Thanks guys, I'll put a little cap on the end of it, then if they ever change the regs I'll have a wire already in place ready to connect :)