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What about if the socket / light fitting was installed in a "room" adjacent to the "kitchen" or "bathroom"? Then the walls between them removed, so making the sock/light now in the combined room? For that matter, what constitutes a wall & a door to divide the "rooms". And how long do these...

I'm definitely going to put batten all round the shelf, so yes, including along the back. I was hoping I might be able to use 18mm for the shelves - a slightly slimmer appearance but also reduces the weight of the shelf itself. Hopefully 2"x1" will be adequate for supporting both desk & shelf.

Hi, I'm trying to change our "office with a bed in it" back to a "spare room with a desk in the corner", so trying to utilise an alcove to fit a desk and shelves. The dimensions of the alcove are: - Back 1.1m - Left hand depth / chminey breast 0.33m - Desk depth on left -- full depth...

Yeah, and if you're not pot-E registered then you have to pay your local authority £400 to come round after every nappy change to make sure you've done to the same standard as every nursery professional

The more I stick my ear against the 'inside' of the area that the noise comes the more I think maybe what I can hear is a combination of *some* buzzing but mostly the scraping could be wings / insect legs etc,... Local council are only interested if its confirmed as mice or rats. And then it...

Putting traps nearby would be a problem - the only way we can see that anything could get in or out of the area in qustion is via the chimney pot about 2ft above where we hear the noise. The chimney put is above the flat roof on our 2nd floor loft conversion, so without a really tall ladder we...

We think we have some uninvited guests of some sort but can't quite figure out what. We've a standard loft conversion at the top of our standard vitorian terrace. So pretty much no loft, just a foot square triangle that boxes in the bracket holding the old chimney pot above (the rest of the...

Hi As the subject ! As soon as it's warm enough to turn the heating off, we're going to replace the rad in one room (as in this thread). I want to take the opportunity to replace the small old rads in another couple of rooms at the same time. I've tried a few online...

Thanks gas4you, The only rad in the space is 300 x 1000 (so same size you would spec). But it's definately not a K2. I dont know the brand (doesn't look like the stelrad we have fitted elsewhere last year). But the general design is similar to a Stelrad K1 (single panel, 1 set of fins)...

Hi mogget, A little while after posting I realised we (or I) was probably mixing BTUs and watts. But by then the PC was off ( it was 2am!). In this case, I think, the only different it makes to the verdict is how much undersized it is ! I would guess it's just "average" insulation for a...

Hi Tony, The BTU of the existing rad is something I've been suspicious about (See post I wrote at same time as yours mentioning the 2kW elec that was doing a good -- if expensive -- job). I did some lookups on the radiator panel size to try to find the BTU but of course any vendor...

Actually I think solving the heating problem is only part of it. I'm sure there are ways I can reduce the heat losses (better window blinds, thermal blinds in the velux, maybe check insulation in the void below the loft room floor etc). But we also did a test tonight with an old 2Kw...

Lack of insulation I'd guess would be your answer. Maybe but I'd hope not. To answer your question, about 3-5 years I think (we've been here 1.5 and it was done by the previous owners that were here about 5 years. I have the actual date on paperwork somewhere if it becomes significant). As...

Sorry... Already my post was rather long! It's a system boiler (Greenstar... either the biggest or 2nd biggest in the range); Sealed/pressurised - the loft rad is the highest point. The boilder/flow-return also feeds a circuit to the heat exchanger in the megaflow cylinder (The HW...

This is blatent profitering-opportunism by the retailers that are "proudly leading the way" here. Yes there's the environmental side of it. But it's gifted the retailers a golden opportunity to stop selling low-margin high volume items and replace with high value items. Even if the margin...

Hi - Hoping someone can give me some advice on a problem with our CH system, which is struggling to heat our 2nd floor loft-conversion room of our victorian terrace. - Boiler is only a year old and heats the rest of the house OK. - The rad in the loft room is blead and gets an even hot...

Wow. Living in similar era property where someone previous put in uPVC (and appear to be very cheap ones at that), I'm dead jealous --- both of your craft skills & the fact you're putting in modern versions of the lovely sash window.

And also contrary to the urban myth it wasn't "DIY electrics" (in the sense of home owner, an "electricians screwdriver" and some advice from a mate in the pub) but an organisation paid to do the work (as part of other building work). Shame there isn't a term for "Do it to someone elses...

I'm not an electrician so this is a customer's POV: How about giving the option? If the customer wants the dp fitted (after you explain the advantages of it vs the disadvantages of not) then can you offer the 'service' of co-ordinating it for the customer? [I'm assuming that you could...

It's a shame isn't it? The intention is good but it has the effect to deter the competent (small c) and careful DIYer from doing something properly because the LABC will often charge an-arm-and-a-leg to certify notifiable work even if our DIY work was comparitively small. [yes, I know it still...