Recent content by Terstons_girl

Thanks a lot guys - guess you plumbers must all be charging so much that you can afford to buy better products for yourselves. Some of us can't.

Hi all, Fitted some new (cheap) basin lever taps from Screwfix this weekend, but dropped the blue screw cap off the cold tap. Can't find it anywhere and it's driving us nuts! Tried calling Screwfix for spares but no luck - cheap imports from Hong Kong they said and no spares. Anyone know...

The electrician is due back on monday to test everything and give me some paperwork which I assume will be this certificate.

Hi all, I've just had an old lean-to removed from the back of my house, and this has disturbed the electrics that lead to the garage at the bottom of the garden. The old wiring was unprotected inside the lean-to but runs inside hosepipe where it goes down the garden. The wiring is not...

Hi guys, I know this topic has been covered before, and I've checked the postings but I'm being very thick and still can't work out how my old thermostat wiring works. I have a Honeywell dial room thermostat and want to fit a new Digistat3 digital thermostat. My old thermostat has 3 wires...

Thanks to all of you - all the thoughts were very much appreciated :) TRV's it is then!

Wow adwt2004, thats the fastest response I've ever had! Thx!

Is it true that the current building regs require that when a new boiler is fitted, that the radiators must also be fitted with thermostatic valves? We're having a new combi boiler fitted and the corgi engineer said that he couldn't fit one with also fitting TRV's to the rads cos of building...

In some places the paint itself has blistered, and in other places the artex has come away with it. The artex is quite old (I know about the potential asbestos issue and am taking as much caution in wearing heavy duty masks as I can), but does artex go 'off' over time? Thanks Terstons_girl

Hi all, I've just painted over an old artex ceiling (house is 1930'a but I suspect ceiling is maybe 60's or 70's). The artex was unsealed. I used a very thin watery paint (B&Q economy job) which was so thin I didn't think it was worth watering down any further. However, the paint blistered in...

Hi all, I've just removed some wallpaper in my 1930's house and would like to paint the walls. The plaster is sound, previously un-painted but has a lot of fine cracks in it. These cracks are too small and far too many to fill by hand. Is there any way I can rescue this wall for painting -...

Thanks guys - think I'll probably block then up then. Cheers, Terstons_girl.

Hi all, I have a 1930's terrace house which has airvents in the exterior walls in the bedrooms. I assume these date from when the house was heated by real fires and were needed for ventilation. Now the house has central heating and double glazing can I just seal these up? And if so is it OK...

Thanks guys. It's a small house and I don't yet have a shower! But it sounds like combi is the way to go. Thanks again. Terstons_girl.

Thanks Chr15. BTW - what are the current regulations regardings controls and energy efficiency? (Not in detail - just a rough answer will do!)