Recent content by Jim589

Agh noseall. Apologies I thought you were talking crap! I'm really sorry. I get it now! That's a good idea!!! How do you finish under the steel? I was aiming for a suspended floor.

Guys, thanks! This really is a great response. Cheers woody, somehow I didn't see that haha. The corrugated steel was what I was on about. But I would have to go quite deep with that. You can see from my pic that I'm limited with room so very keen to go as close as I can. Really just for a...

Hi all, I plan to put a single storey extension in, down the side of my house, with the wall being as close as it can be to the boundary to maximise the internal size. The boundary is effectively a 3ft high garden wall, I haven't dug a trial pit but i'd be amazed if there was more than a foot...

Hi all, Just a question. I currently have an attic room which I am about to decorate. The conversion was done early nineties by the look of the materials and dates on plasterboard etc. I contacted my local council to see if this work was done under building control, which it wasn't (as...

Hi All, I have a very rubbish Biasi boiler. Never come across a worse boiler and I have been in the building trade long enough. Anyway typically the worst boiler is in my own home. the problem is, if I now turn the heating on, it fires up, house gets warm. However if I run a tap the boiler...

Hi guys. I recently bought a house. Its a victorian house with chimney etc. I want to put a multifuel stove in my lounge. Now i know this requies a class 1 flue and relevant certified engineer etc. There is already a flue in place, no idea what for, i did a makeshift pressure test on it...

They are slates. Ideally i want the "drape" to match the horizontal flashing at the top of the bay window. Basically in that pic, if they were slates, would you use soakers? cheers

Hi, Im putting a flashing like this on a slate foof, purely so it matches in with the apron/flashing at the top of an abutment bay window. Do i need to put soakers in under it all. Im sure you dont but ive begun questioning myself cheers