Recent content by curadh

Hi everyone, I was putting in some plastic pex pipe into a tectite speedfit joint(with the teeth so you cant take it back out!) and I forgot to put the little insert into the top of the pipe before pushing home( it was very late on a friday night!!)... I was just wondering should I cut the lot...

Thanks for the quick response ban -all-sheds. Those diagrams are a good help. Do you think there is anything wrong with the system, as in the previous live starting at a switch instead of the light rose. Is it just a case of keeping things organised and uniform by having the light starting...

Hi Everybody, Is this circuit safe? It works fine but as a novice I've little confidence in it. Live supply from 'common' on switch outside bedroom, going to 'common' on switch 1, via single insulated cable. Brown wire in t+e going from L2 on switch 1 to L1 on switch 2. Blue wire going...

I think you might be right! Man I'm so lazy!! Is it possible though or would the plaster just crack after a while?

All sorted! know exactly what I'm at now, *cough*didnt know the window sat on the sill*cough*, so will run flashing underneath and leave it vertical behind the sill, where it should meet 'queen closer' bricks. The sides will be closed with bricks at a 90 degree-er so they meet the outer skin...

wow thats some site glassman, plenty of reading to do! drilled one of the old walls yesterday, the cavity seems to be 70mm not 50mm. Also took up a window board to have a look at an older one, it seems to be around 60 or 70 thick, and the window sits on the sill at the back of the cavity.This I...

Hey everyone I'm stripping the walls of a kitchen to plaster over and have come accross a big sheet of chipboard covered in wallpaper. Instead of stripping the paper off it by soaking the thing, can I just plaster over the lot? Or for the sake of a few quid will i rip it out and put in a sheet...

Thanks Kevash, but I'm more confused now! Ive measured the existing windows, the external sill is 190mm, with around 50mm of that overhanging the blockwork. The window seems to start at the back of this, being around 60mm thick. The internal window board is 150mm and overhangs by 50mm also. Is...

Hi all, Starting my garage conversion tomorrow, window being delivered friday, to sit on a 9" cavity block wall. I am feeling a little jittery as I am fitting it myself. From looking at other windows I can guess it sits behind the concrete sill, on the inner leaf? or does it go over the cavity...

talked to a bloke today says to use slate to close the cavity. Surely that stuff would crack too easily if you drilled it.

In dublinia legs, the big smoke as you cultchies would call it!!! Masthermabate..!lol surprised that ones not well worn out at this stage! Rang around today for the stuff, tough to get it seems, whats the norm for closing cavities? Heard somewhere the thing to do is use half bricks, but not...

Howya legs akimbo Thats solved that! Genious. Thanks a lot. curadh

Hi Everyone, About time I stepped from out of the shadows...converting my garage into a bedroom was hoping to run a few things by all of you. I'm taking out the garage door and window above it, replacing it all with a metre high block(2 skins, cavity)wall and pvc window above. There is an...

hey mark, i'm no expert but in my experience an 8 inch rsj is used for load bearing walls, doorways and windows on non load bearing not as stringent. In general youve got to allow 150mm on either side of it so just add 300 to your opening. The bigger the opening the more you should give the...