Recent content by Garnett13

Hi. Thanks for your info. I think my terminology was wrong. I'm after a hinge that offers resistance to the effect of gravity, but ideally it would also stop the desk from coming down past horizontal.

I want to build a drop-down desk. The best way I could describe it would be a large cassette case mounted on the wall! Can anyone suggest some hinges I could use to ideally offer some counterbalance to the weight of the desk?

Not sure what your point is, but next time you want to buy a car, give me the cash for a Ferrari, and I'll sell you a Kia. You wanted a car and you'll have a car and (by your rationale) everyone will be happy.

Thanks Aron. Any ideas on suitable products? The reason I blame the builder is because this plank was so clearly a duff one. We've got so much wood available it's ridiculous and his carpenter selects the dodgiest plank for the middle of the flat.

Yeah, so our idiot builders' latest f##k-up was to select the most useless planks for the most heavily-trafficked, most visible area of our new wooden floor. Now this is happening - is there anything we can do? I was wondering if there was some kind of glue/varnish we could apply to bond...

£30 per square meter laid plus £10 per square meter to lacquer. All ex VAT. So actually charging £48 per square meter. That does include replacing the skirtings, and taking off 5 doors and sanding and rehanging. So general consensus is that we should definitely be expecting the flooring...

Thanks. Yeah, I think I know what you mean, and I agree. Something like this, right....

Thanks Masona. That's really helpful. Regarding the planks - the hallway goes through a 90° turn just out of shot. It is therefore a big "L" and for the long bit, the planks run the length of the hallway. I'm pretty happy (apart from three other doorways that look like the one in the photos...

Hi. I'm hoping some experts can help. We're paying for a wooden floor to be fitted. It's costing £36 labour per square meter to fit (more than the wood cost!). This is what the threshold to the bathroom looks like:- Close ups of the bottom of the door frame:- ........... I was...

f you don't think raising concerns about things possibly resulting in the DEATH of you or your loved ones is helpful (even if they are slightly irrelevant to the question in hand), I don't know what would be! :lol: Anyway, thanks for your concern. I guess it's easy for a layperson like...

RJM2K is wrong. Builder is qualified. Don't ever go into detective work, will you, RJM2K. Property is owned on a long lease (though how this assists with my question about flue set up is anyone's guess. RJM2K, here's a link. Read the article and all the links therein. You're welcome!

rjm2k, thanks for all your help. :roll:

Gah! Been trying to find more info, and struggling with what terms to use. ANyway, found this thread:- //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=201696&start=0 ...which seems to answer my question. Back to the drawing board!

Thanks Muggles. So the builder was proposing something very much like what exists now: the flue exiting above the boiler. "Generally speaking a flue needs to have a continual fall back to the boiler" I presume this means the flue can never dip down and must exit the boiler and continue...

We are hoping to move our combi-boiler from where it is now low down on an external wall, to higher up on the adjacent wall. Currently the flue comes out the top of the boiler and straight out through a hole in the external wall directly above the boiler. Our builder suggested that when he...