Recent content by kaygee

he didnt look old enough to ride a horse! We saw the plates online, these so called professionals told us it needed this gap to allow air to circulate and to prevent fire. now i can understand this around the insulation in the roof void but not blowing a gale force wind into my room. the...

hello all our wood burner was fitted yesterday....the wood burner is in a single storey room and the flue runs externally through the ceiling/roof void and straight up an external wall on side of our house.. the problem we have is around the flue internally where it meets the ceiling there...

.thanks for responses will be following your advice.

well folks my neighbor decided to remove his chimney breast from both floors. not sure exactly what remains in his attic. what we now see when we look at the chimney from outside is the leaning tower of Pisa. to his side the entire chimney stack is leaning, with cracks that look similar to...

wondered if anyone has any idea what this grey box is outside our home..its a part of the extension that was completed early 90's, there is a drain that runs under the single storey extension here, if its related? the box has holes to the front, it doesnt open and has us baffled..any ideas? :D

thanks, wow thats some bedtime reading for us. pleased we can install one within the extension! thats certainly good news... :D thank you...

hello all. we are currently in the process of submitting plans for a new single storey extension to the rear of our property. we would like to install a wood burner into the new extension. our Q is, what rules & regs surround the installation of a wood burner if not being attached to existing...

its nedl on the letter i got today. anyhow thanks for all your help on this subject...i feel better educated on it now and will return to my skip/scaffolding/flying brick view. :o

and what a delight he is to have as a neighbour!! ok steve, sorry for harrassing you so much over this.... so the guy from balfour nedl just needs to come in my house, have a cuppa, cut a wire and disappear again? if its thats that simple i will call him tomorrow ( if i am not too tied up with...

i have added a picture in my album of the black box with the cables coming out. if thats the case then as per your last posting steve will it just be a case of them chopping one of these nice wires and capping it off? then i can get back to looking at the scaffolding he has erected in my garden...

hi steve, lord this isnt my electric box!! this is my next door neighbours electric box that is hanging from his ceiling and his extension. my electric box is securely attached to my wall in its proper place. we live in semi dettached houses that were built in 1930's

thanks thommo, and facy seeing you here.. ok its my house, my next door neighbours are having an extension built to the side and back of their house, the neighbour wants to move his meter box as the wall it was attached to inside his house is no more, so his meter box is currently suspended by...