Recent content by emmavix

We live in a cottage that was converted from a cattle shed in the 1970s. In the main bedroom one of the outside walls feels much colder than the other, when we had a chest of drawers up against it we discovered huge patches of mould behind them within a month or so & anything that touches the...

We have a 1870s house with solid walls. These had been covered with plasterboard & had become damp. We have quotes from a local plasterer, who's bee highly recommended and who's suggested we use Renderlite as an alternative to lime. Having read up on it, it seems this isn't recommended as it has...

We're renovating a Victorian farmhouse & planning to sand & varnish/oil the floorboards upstairs. We can do some swapping of boards, we plan to have a runner down the middle of the 40 foot landing so can swap out some of the better boards in that area. Most rooms are OK but this one is a real...

Thanks, though if I add in the grille & valves, the price is similar, a bit less admittedly!

Hi I'm not a tradesman but hope someone in here can help. If anyone has a Screwfix trade account, I wonder if you could possibly check a price for me? I priced up a load of radiators for a renovation job we're doing at home & compared prices with the Screwfix trade catalogue. Back in March...

I know these are dumb questions - I have asked for quotes (and system advice) from two heating engineers - locally both are so busy that we have waited 2 months for a date for a visit & will wait another month at least for a quote. In the mean time I need to work out whether what we want to do...

These are Eta recommended installers, and we've visited other places where they've installed boilers, they just differ hugely in their specs.

Largest two have a 3 kw rating, smallest is 2 kw, not sure if we need a 4th.

We've had 4 quotes for biomass boilers which have suggested boilers from 95 to 195kw. One of the companies has visited a few times but I'm not sure if they've spent long enough here to perform a full heat loss calculation. We need to install radiators throughout most of the building & I've...

That's why I was looking at 2.5 - 5Kw per room Tony & you do require BTUs to look at radiator sizes needed, which is why I mentioned them as I have the required BTU for each room already.

No, not a brothel, I'm afraid, residential training centre!

Though I also see these which offer 400W output: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dimplex-Wattage-Electric-Panel-Heater/dp/B0000YQ9LK (though I'd need several so probably less efficient).

Some of the rooms are very large, 50m2 (only a couple but they will need efficient heating!). They'll be used as training rooms, others mostly bedrooms, staff & guest. Only about 15 rooms will need heating for the first year as we'll still be renovating the rest of the building. But some of the...

We own a big old house with very few radiators. There are about 20 powered by a 70kw oil boiler but we need to install around 40 more radiators. (There are 59 rooms). We'd hoped to install a biomass boiler & make the oil boiler defunct but as a start up business we're unlikely to get the...

Hi I'm sorry, this is a weird query. We've removed some tiles in a bathroom that was once part of a cowshed and there's a distinct smell of wee. I'm planning to aquaboard (was going to do this over tiles but they were bulging & on inspection, they pulled off by hand!). I'm leaving the walls...