Recent content by simoniris

Karndean is pretty quiet - better than laninates anyway. In terms of quality I've always been of the opinion it's equally as good as Amtico. They've got a very good showroom at their head office at Evesham if you want to see the stuff laid.

Go to a DIY or tool store & buy a screw extractor [drill bit with a reverse threaded head]. Drill the appropriate sized hole into the stuck screw a couple of mm deep, and then drill out using a power driver / drill. Presto, sorted and no damaged plaster.

It would be a huge surprise if you didn't need permission for your conservatory, but that shouldn't be a worry. Fees likely to be around £75. You'll need a set of drawings at 1:100 showing the house as existing [floor plan & elevations] and the same showing the conservatory. You shouldn't have...

Thickness of slab will not really have a bearing on whether damp comes through, you need to lay a membrane [1000 or 1200g polythene sheet from your builders merchant will do] The correct construction for your slab would be [I don't know how large it is so treat these as approx thicknesses...

Is the door shown on the south wall the front door shown in the photo taken from outside? Which is the wall which is part solid part stud?

3 inches of concrete will be fine, bit of a bodge starting at 2" at the perimeter though [although if he's reinforced it, this 50mm/75mm/50mm slab is just about passable, just a real bodge! Why ever didn't he level it across the full width??!!.... could he not be bothered to dig it out properly...

Personal preference. I've only used Velux and Fakro in the past, both good. I wouldn't say Velux are that pricey - depends where you buy them I suppose and what terms you get. I think the Fakro ones we had were more expensive than the Velux equivalent [had they made one] would have been.

In that case stud walls are standard practice internally in flats. The question isn't so much why is it stud above but why is it solid below? I'm out of ideas without seeing it - any chance of photos, floorplan?

Broadband should be up round the 1/2/3 mb mark in most places now - 250k is pretty dire - has the ISP confirmed what speed it should be running at? Sometimes it can be slow to get into hotmail from messenger, they fiddle around with it and change the interface and it seems to get slower. You...

I wouldn't say it's either but it's not catastrophic. Is it a conversion of an old building? If so it may be that the floor level was different in the area and has been lowered/raised causing it to join a solid wall which has been extended in studwork. It may just be an old window or similar...

A good commercial grade chippie can swing up to 7 doors in a day. However, worth noting these will all be the same 44mm solid core flush door, with 3 butt hinges, overhead closer, mortice latch/lock, pair levers & cyliner thumb turn. Vitally they will all be into new frames which will be dead on.

uPVC doors tend to have several latch points up the door's leading edge side of the frame, a timber door would use a mortice lock. You will therefore end up with only one locking point in the weakest part of the frame - the lip on the edge, rather than the strip screwed into the reveal. Pull...

Only worry if you like total privacy while engaging in actvities in the smallest room or if the neighbours have particularly disruptive 'kitchen' habits. Structurally it is unlikely to be an issue - although without seeing it this is purely an assumption based on the fact that residents have...

In Explorer if that's what you're using Choose: > Tools from top menu bar > Internet Options Depending on version: In Temporary Internet Files box >Settings Browsing History box [Latest version - although not sure about Vista] >Settings >View Files Opens a new dialogue box...

1. Auto choke on the blink? - unlikely - presume your car is injection.... 2. Lambda sensor in the exhaust? - Incorrect reading of fuel content of exhaust fumes causing engine management to over fuel / starve on overrun / no rev situations approaching junctions 3. Air flow meter? - air inlet...