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excellent. yeah mine look like the set that come out on the youtube vid. thanks for your assistance.

cool. have removed the motor again and will take it to my local shop to order some brushes. Any idea how much they cost (roughly) Cheers

thought so. just strange that it ran without a load it and then stopped when i put some items in

My bosch washing machine (WVF 2401) has stopped spinning. I removed the motor, inspected it and re-fitted it. The machine worked fine on a cycle empty and turned the drum as normal. I have put half a load in and it wont spin. Is this the brushes that have gone or the whole motor? Any advice...

just to report back. I had my plumber friend round and he cleaned the venturi properly (there were some bits forming around the top) and touch wood everything is working properly. thank you for all your suggestions you've saved me a few quid!!

woody is right here, you need to be 1m away from the boundary to have any opening more than 1m2 in area.

most councils now require you to fill in a form and/or submit plans for PD. Usually they planners will check the building control plans (if they are on the ball). You will only get caught out if someone (an irate neighbour say) contacts the council to question whether your development is...

sorry got caught up answering queries in the building regs section. so this may not be an overheating problem then? will have the venturi cleaned properly and check then. Strange how sometimes it runs longer than other times though

correct, but you need a min of 1/20th. plus you have to pay someone to do your SAP calc and lodge it

if you want a fixed ladder that complies with part of the building regs (part K) then there are space saver stairs on the market, not good for everyday use but they work. Depends on what you want to use the space for really, if it is only storage then put a decent loft ladder in, if you want to...

thats correct. 100m mineral wool roll between the joists min 10 kg/m3 density. Stud walls only require a min of 25mm and 1 layer of plasterboard (min density 10kg/m3) either side to acheive min 40db rating, so as freddy says Gypsum do a wallboard 10, it has a blue back on it. if you dont want...

you have to be careful as at the time of your building works they were required along with an FD30 fire door and frame. The regs changed and now you only require an FD20 door with an FD30 frame. You cant actually get an FD20 door now only FD30, its really the intumescent strip in the door that...

to comply with building regs you need to provide a min 1/20th of the floor area within the opening light of the window. say for a 13.5m2 room you need 0.68m2 of the window to open at least 30 degrees

Water and Sewer maps usually only indicate public sewer details. The black dots are maholes so you should have one in your back garden somewhere. These maps are not 100% acurate but quite close, bit odd that it goes under your house but not impossible. You need to find it and check the depth and...

50mm will be fine, Cellotex or Kingspan will do, whichever you can find cheapest. you can install a vapour barrier or use foil backed plasterboard, whichever you want to use. This isnt 100% efficient as there are still some possibilities of cold bridging through the timbers but as a cheap good...