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This whole winter I've had bubbles and gurgling in the central heating. It's a sealed system with 7 rads on one floor. I went around bleeding all the rads, which went fine and improved things. But time the bubbles and noises always came back. Really getting on my nerves. The system never lost...

Hi - need some advice on an idea, please... My place is an 1900ish solid wall house. Externall bricks rendered and internally lime plaster with a couple of skim plaster coats over the years. Getting damp around a 1st floor window. (Window looks water tight). Builder suggests external render...

I've got a 1890s Flat with a bay window. Fairly typically large centre window and two smaller flanking ones. The side windows were screwed/painted/sealed shut until I freed them last week. No pullies in the boxes either. La Found the base of the bottom rail and its mating part of the cill had...

Hi and seasons greetings! Just coming to the end of my conversion and have cut away parts of the old plasterboard/skimmed ceiling to make way for the staircase and need a little advice please. The reveal is now new square edge plasterboard meeting the old ceiling at right angles - see the...

Hi, does anyone know where I can get some of these Plasterboard / Drywall shims? Seem to be popular in the US but nowhere to be found here. http://homerenovations.about.com/od/drywallsheetrock/ss/Drywall-Shims.htm Thanks in advance! L.A.

Just another thought.... I think if the conversion forms the 4th floor of the premises, the fire regulations get a little more complicated. Check out section 7.2.32 of this: https://www.slough.gov.uk/downloads/guide-to-loft-conversion.pdf Cheers, LA

Just converting the loft above my flat in to a bedroom, needed to get planning permission; even for three Velux windows. Bit frustrating, all the neighbours have full dormers done under permitted development. Process was simple enough and drawings were all line drawings done over a few of...

Hi Andy, Velux don't seem to advertise any hinge adjustment. The fitting instructions tell the installer to fit the sash and adjust the frame (with a crowbar!) to centre the sash in the frame. The bad news is this is all done before the top frame screws are driven in. I'd guess to...

Oh okay.. and a few more...

...some random pics taken through the install:And finally just

Just popped in three windows, this post aims to summarise my experience. Massive thank you to everyone here that gave me advice. Maybe someone will find this post useful too. I’m a DIYer, made my fair share of mistakes. If you spot any in this post let me know and I’ll revise. My place is a...

Brilliant! "Yes sir, that is a genuine premium bottom opening model that..."

Nice job! If mine look half as good as these I'd be a happy camper.

Can imagine there's a lot of seriously bodged installs out there - would like to avoid. Could do with a laugh, fancy sharing some of of your skylight horror stories? Cheers, LA.

I’m planning on fitting a couple of Velux’s as the next stage of my loft conversion, and could do with some advice from the experienced people here. Tiles are Marley Ludlow Plus and it looks like the top of the frame is around the third tile from the ridge. I really don’t want to disturb the...