Recent content by rajk

skirting board are MDF - checked and have not shrunk. There are no sleeper walls for extra supports - to add the sleeper wall means removing the floor.....sounds expensive. Fortunately, its shrunk approx 5mm everywhere - will the wooden joist shrink/dry out anymore? The joist were...

Hi - I have got a floating wooden joist floor. The joist are 6inches by 2inches. Covered with 18mm ply. Then I have got polyplumb overlay panels for under floor heating. Then ceramic tiles for finishing. Its been just over a year and now the floor has dropped by about 1/4inch all round...

Hi - I have got a floating wooden joist floor. The joist are 6inches by 2inches. Covered with 18mm ply. Then I have got polyplumb overlay panels for under floor heating. Then ceramic tiles for finishing. Its been just over a year and now the floor has dropped by about 1/4inch all round...

Fitted a new mixer shower and flow/pressure is rubbish. Cannot have a shower. Water comes out ~ 1litre/min when hot+cold. See picture for setup. Negative or Positive? Salamander said Negative but Stewart Turner recently said Positive, initially did not know a solution..... Salamander or...

I have a open vented system comprising of hot water cyclinder + water storage tank + vailant ecotec bolier. water storage tank is approx 0.5m above hot water cylinder. I want to fit power shower. 1) Aqualisa or mira digital pumped showers good? 2) Digital or individual pump? 3) Is 0.5m...

I have got a public sewer 3m away in my back garden. So my extension is 2.9m. Building Control approved my foundations and a 50mm clay master sheet was inserted between the sewer and concrete. Just heard from the water board that they are rejecting the foundation proposal because I need to...

I want to sound proof a party wall. Anyone done this before? Reccomended companies/suppliers? I'm fairly competent so I will be doing this by myself.

mark - what UFH water system do you have? The extension will be approx. 20m^2 and nuheat.co.uk sell a kit which comes with 2 coils. Agree - concrete takes longer to warm up and depends on depth of screed. However, all the builders have recommended water based system.

Good stuff - my plans got approved last week and both neighbours complained!! One of the neighbours wrote a 3 page letter of issues....most of it was funny in a strange way.... I think some neighbours try to act as planning officers.

Looking into undefloor heating for new kitchen extension. Floor will be concrete. What do you reccomend; 1) water - nuheat.co.uk. Can fit heat pump on this system. 2) electric - theres plenty of suppliers, not sure about running cost, sounds expensive.

Hey - the plans got approved. 2.9m for the attached neighbour and 4m for the unattached. 4m was allowed because the extension will be in-line with the unattached neighbour. A few extension on my street have the staggered design because not all of the houses are in-line. Now need to get...

Need a cheap 24 combi boiler for a rental flat which has 2 bedrooms. I'm getting the following boilers; 1) Main - £540, 1Yr guarantee 2) BRG - £460, 1Yr guarantee 3) sabre-vokera - £440, 2Yr guarantee Which one do guys reccomend?

Not mentioned it to him but a similar plan was approved on my street last year. So I cant see the problem. Spoke to the planning officer and he said it should not be a problem cos theres a 2.4m gap - but they need to do a site visit to check everything. The planning officer is due to come...

Planning officer said he needs to do a site visit to see if the comments are relevant. What do you mean by a planning consultant? The drawings submitted have been done by an architect who says he has done this type of development before......