The upper floor of our recently purchased house has internally exposed roof joist as a feature of the bedrooms. They are structural so have to stay!
At present they are finished in a brown porous stain, but I would like to make them less of a feature by staining painting them white/cream to...
thank you John and Rob I have a wood burner which I will have on during the winter together with the oil fired central heating so hot water will not be an issue in the winter , my concern really is the economy of having to heat water in summer using oil.
Thank you both , sorry if I was not...
We are doing up our new to us house and need to find a better way to heat water for bathing in summer.
Present set up
oil combi boiler (so no hot water cylinder)
no gas supply
house stands north/south with east west facing roof angles and no south facing area suitable for solar options.
We...