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I have built a speaker holder in the top part of my fireplace (just below the mantlepiece). I had a British Gas engineer get vaguely threatening about it not being safe and inventing wildly stupid scenarios in which it would fall off, catch fire, burn the house down, and our insurance not paying...

From what I can see, the lead free ones melt at a higher tempperature. "common alloys are 60/40 Sn/Pb which melts at 370 °F or 188 °C and 63/37 Sn/Pb used principally in electrical work" Although I did encounter some magical solder that wouldn't melt even at 400+. I was trying to replace a...

:-) Thanks goingdigital that's positive to hear. Dormer is always the nicest option but velux is more affordable. Plus, a dormer needs planning permission from what I understand as your actually changing the volume of the house. I don't think you would get planning permission for a dormer if...

OK, as stupid as this question my be, I'll kick myself if I don't ask and it turned out to have been possible. Is is possible to raise the roof on an end terrece? I would assume the answer would be absolutely not because of the fact that you're joined to another house.

Just done a search for mounted binocular loupe and followed the links to the SMT stuff. OMG! this is like being in heaven!!!! Many thanks to you both, this stuff if perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had no idea this stuff even existed. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Thanks to you both for your tips on this. If you're finding that surface mount resistors aren't hard then it must be my technique that is bad, probably in part because I'm not using the right kit. I have a tip just like the one in the link (I've actually got three irons of various fixed...

Hi, Does anyone know the best tools for doing ultra fine soldering. Trying to solder components now is starting to feel like performing brain surgery with a spoon! Everywhere I've googled people talk about fine tipped soldering irons. I already have a fine tipped one though and could do with...

definitly think dehumidifyers are worth a mention.

Hi John D, Good link, with some good common sense solutions. Wet coats hanging up: solution = umbrella Tumble drying is not always a solution as it can cause clothes to shrink, Solution: tumble dry what will not shrink and use a clothes horse + dehumidifyer for those that will. That...

Thanks for you're advice, I really appreciate you both taking the time to explain what you did. It's certainly put a smile back on my face as I know it's do-able. Some brilliant solutions. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D I'd better have a look and see...

Thanks for that, looks like treatment is a complete waste of time in this particular case. I must have spoken to loads of people now who have said that this will just go away once the source of the condensation on the tiles is sorted out. Below is what it looks like. What doesn't help...

Thanks to both of you for your advice on that, the option you've mentioned will no doubt be the only real solution I have open to me. The fact that you've said the beams you've put down run parallel to the purlings must mean that the walls you'r talking about are the gable end and the...

Me and my wife just recently bought our first house. Only been in four months and we're looking to utilise to loft space. Really disappointed about limitations we've discovered but we're determined to make the most of it. We want to use it as an office room. Age: 85 years old Type: Stone end...

I'm sorry to say that I didn't get around to writing to the water company in the end, as there turned out to be quite a bit of other stuff that needed sorting out with the house. I guess we were just worried about building a conservatory and having to rip it up to allow any pipes to repaired...

Hi, I recently moved into an 85 year old house that turned out to have 'White Spot Mould' on the rafters. At first I thought it was Wet Rot from looking at pictures on google, but on inspection by a reputable company I was told it was white spot mould. The rafters are a little soft but on...

Hi ccrowe, Thanks for the tip. Just out of interest does that rule tend to apply for new builds? Ours is about 85 years old and is an end terrace. I believe the previous owners had alot of the electrics redone in the house in the past 7 years though. They plaster boarded all but two walls...

thanks hairyben, The next time anything like this comes up I'll use the screwdriver method if I don't trust the detector. As the kitchen door has a small window next to it my wife came up with the idea of using a longer curtain pole that will hold both a short curtain for the window, and a...

Hi Mattylad, No, nowhere near power lines. Found this post though which is weird and might support the foil backed plasterboard theory though. It certainly made me think twice about chrome light switches as this is something I'd planned to do at some point...

Thanks for your reply, Do you know what would cause wood to be detected as voltage? Everywhere in the house was plasterboarded by the previous owners so I suspect that some kind of foil backing on the plasterboard might be causing the issue. I've just had a thought, if you have a live...

Hi, at the risk of sounding like a complete loon...... Went to fit a curtain pole up so we can have a curtain in front of the kitchen door. Used a voltage tester to detect any live wires behind where I need to drill and the detector gave a periodic beep on one side of where I want to drill...