Recent content by valve90210

I hate to bring back a long dead thread but having spent a chunk of today messing around in the loft hoping to get an area boarded and failing miserably as the previous owners have had new insulation installed meaning I need to raise the joists in order to clear the insulation. I have read...

That's not too bad, would save me some work...:) Yeah, I saw g&g on your profile yesterday. :). I will give them a call.

I see, tis a small world! How much was the window out of interest?

I added a new topic in the windows section and was advised that the best thing to do would be have a window made up to the same size as the existing window but with 60mm addon on the head then it can go in the same gap, not need a lintil and allow me to lower the ceiling too!!! :)

Cool, that sounds fairly simple and less work than I thought. Yeah, I'm in shepway, how did you know?

It probably would be about 60mm, just enough to stick some insulation in and board it. Would I need a lintil over the new window?

Taken from my project thread (Here) which sadly has not received many replies since my last post I thought I'd ask in here. I am looking to replace a horrid old window in my downstairs toilet which is in an old outhouse style building which is made with a single brick wall (single as in...

A second skin of bricks would be tricky as the outhouse bit also house a couple of cupboards and the ground outside is concrete and on different levels (quite what they thought they were doing during building I'm not sure!) My plan is to start with the mould and the window/air vent then move...

Hi All Having recently moved into a new house (semi-detached), I'd very much to get network cables run to every room as we have so much kit which wants to be networked and the number if only going to increase as time goes on. My plan is to have the modem/router installed under the stairs...

Under floor heating would be a bit tricky as the downstairs toilet is basically in what would have been an outhouse, so is not part of the main house and is separated by a rear lobby so would be very hard to run pipework etc to it. Also I don't really want to spend too much on it.

Good point, though I will make sure there is a nat round the toilet once done. I'd like carpet as at the moment it's tiles on concrete and is absolutely freezing underfoot!!!

Hi All Just under two weeks ago my girlfriend and I moved into a new house (new to us...it was built in 1950 apparently) which needs a whole lot of redecorating and doing up which is why we got it at a good price! :) I would define myself as a beginner when it comes to DIY and a bit...

If I can avoid having to cut into the wood of the mirror I'd really reathe do so, but it looks like I might well have to go for that type of fixing as I can't find anything like the ones I linked to originally anywhere.

Whilst that does look quite good, it's rather pricey! in fact with postage it'll cost more than the mirror!

The ones I've linked to screw onto the back on the mirror (or on to the wooden frame for example) so would be fine to use if I could just find them!