Recent content by Tomoose

I think it said 3 3/8 on my immersion heater box spanner! I must have my wires crossed. Will have to think about how to drill through the blanking plate and what type of fittings to use to make it water tight. Any ideas? Alternatively, how do you drill the tank for an Essex flange? What...

Cheers for that, but can only see a 2 1/4" plug, and I thought mine was a 3 3/8"?

I've got the exact same problem. Did you resolve it in the end? A 1" to 22mm adapter could work, the salamander flange does fit inside a 22mm fitting (just!) and would still give sufficient flow I think. I too don't want to put an Essex flange in. Checked the make and model of tank and...

Decision has been made - its being closed off so we can have a poxy electric fire. Great. I will install a lintel before close it up though so in the future "when the kids are older" we can have a woodburner or something. Thanks for the help everyone.

Is there a continuation of a wall above it in the loft space? Are there joists that the wall supports? If joists span the wall in question, do they continue to the external walls and are supported by it and/or joist hangers, or do the joists stop at the wall you want to knock down? Its fairly...

Thanks for that - I'll hire an acro and a strongboy and get one slotted in for peace of mind. The flue is about 10" in diameter (8 1/4" internal diameter) and there doesn't appear to be anything holding it in place really at all, certainly no surround or owt like that, just hanging in free...

Hi I recently moved into a place, and the living room fire place just had a sheet of ply covering it, so I've taken that off, and removed the old loose brickwork from within, and all the cast iron fireplace stuff. I am now left with a nice opening which I will probably be building some...

Hi, first post here - seems to be a great forum! I have recently moved into a house and we have these metal door linings / frames throughout. Its very annoying because we want to change the direction many of the doors are hung, and the recess for the latch is WAY to high, and most panel doors...