Happy New Year.
We are in the last stages of doing our kitchen. It has been plastered with 1st fix electrics and plumbing.
Could someone advise on the best order to do things please.
1. Flooring (should this go over the whole floor and fitted base units over top or after the units?)...
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We are doing our ground floor kitchen in our 1900 terraced house. We have knocked out chimney breats through to the brick lean to room behind existing kitchen. What is the thickness of plasterboard required by building regs we need to use on the ceiling between the existing kitchen and...
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I am interested in using schlegel aquamac for our outward opening french doors, which seems to be very good stuff.
How does one know which profile to use for which type of door? Also is there anywhere it can be purchased in less than 10m lengths? Should it be intalled by a joiner? Is...
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We need to replace the rotten ends of floor joist in our first floor bathroom. Is there a recommended size of bolt for this purpose? And would dog toothed timber connectors be necessary?
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It is an external wall, is single skin and needs to bought in to be made level with the existing wall. Isn't it better to insulate where you can in order to minimise heat loss in this time of rising energy costs? I was thinking of some sort of insulating board. Do we need a vapour permeable...
The chimney stack had already been removed by previous owners. There is only roofing membrane and above that roof tiles. No loft cavity, or other walls. just roof joists. We had a structural engineer come so that he could drawings for the kitchen and he talked my partner through how to remove...
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We have just spent the weekend removing a small chimney breast from our bathroom. We will be eventually taking out the larger one underneath it in the kitchen
It is on an external single skin wall which now needs bringing forward about 15cm to be flush with the existing internal wall...
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I need to put in thermostatic radiator controls on our central heating system. Does anybody have any tips for the type of thermostatic valves that are best.
Also any tips for installing them.
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Is it possible to convert a bath mounted victorian style tap shower mixer unit to a wall mounted one instead of buying a whole new unit? Would it be just a question of getting different stems and where would the best place to get these from?
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We have just had a series of pine freestanding kitchen cabinets and worktops given to us by a neighbour. He thinks it is treated with Danish oil and wax mixture? The wood is quite dark and we would like to do something to the existing finish to make it lighter.
Can we remove the...
Our boiler is located in the bathroom of our house and it has been unseasonably mild for a week or more now.
We have the dial that is on the boiler for the central heating set on 2 (highest 6),
Where would a frost thermostat be located. I don't think we have on though. I would feel a bit...