Recent content by SimonH2

Pretty certain it's part of the original build - things like the cross joists matching the main joists, both in timber and workmanship style. And if you look closely, there's a couple of boards marked that have the bottom part of the groove removed so they will lift out. I can still get under...

So not a daft idea then ? I was assuming I'll need a drain point, won't be hard to arrange. Any suggestions on sealing between duct and chimney pot ? Oh, and Santa would have a hard time as none of our chimneys still go anywhere. We just leave a window open for him.

We currently have a through the wall fan in the bathroom which is ... "rubbish". Apart from performance and noise (to the point where SWMBO will switch it off before showering), it's at the wrong end of the bathroom - as far from the shower as it's possible to get. I'm thinking of putting an...

Well whatever it was, it's gone now :rolleyes:

It was a very tight squeeze for the flue - anything bigger would eat into something structural (either the blocks of a block & beam floor, or the steels supporting it.) Others I got to look at it either wanted to run the flue through someone else's space, or put the boiler in the kitchen (which...

We've just had a Keston S30 installed in our rental flat - it was the only option that worked for flue routing, and even that was tricky. There's something I can't find answers to in the manual - and I note the online manual is an older version (04/2023) than the printed on (09/2024) one that...

I suspect most failures under surge conditions are down to "poor quality" electronics - everything built down to a price, no headroom in component specs, that sort of thing. I do have experience with stuff getting fried - but SPDs as currently fitted would have done ... absolutely nothing at...

Some suppliers say yes for the thicker boards. The problem is most suppliers only have thinner boards.

Which is largely a result of 2 things : "Levelling up" where other countries are enjoying better living standards. And part of that is less exploitation as ethics influences businesses via customer pressure. Worse exploitation where customer pressure isn't happening. For example, most of our...

You couldn't be more wrong there. Yes it us another tax - but it's set locally, collected locally, and mostly goes to support local services. For whatever value of "local" applies to your council area. As such, it is effectively a tax for local services used by a household. Yes, that is a...

How much income tax do those couples pay on £150k vs. what you pay on £30k ? In overall taxes, it's likely that they do pay more. But if we're talking council tax, then are you suggesting that someone in a £5M house uses 5x the local services that the person in the £1M house does ? Or 50x the...

As it happens, the shop up the road had Tim Tams in last time I was in - £2 for a pack with "not many" biscuits. Well I thought I'd give them a go, but was "unimpressed".

They came afterwards when someone "fitted" central heating. I put "fitted" in quotes as it was ... "a bit rough - especially in the way whoever did it butchered some of the boards. Quite literally, in places the pipes were supporting the board on top :eek: Not very secret - it's open to the...

Thanks for the ideas. It's reassuring to know it's not just me that's puzzled by it :cool: I did wonder if it had been left for (e.g.) pouring the concrete to make the slab - but if it was just that, why would they go to the trouble of finishing it off underneath and making a lift out panel...

Anyone like to offer an opinion as to the function of this hatch ? It's clearly been built as a hatch - lined and with trim underneath. It's on the landing in line with the top of the stairs. Underneath (last photo) there's a sort of shelf at door top level, accessed from the under stairs...