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Thank you very much, I'll have a read up on the site you mention and yes, will get a registered electrician in. Thanks

Loft space, plenty of it.

Just to resurrect this as I think my choice of words didn't help my query ! By "move" I really meant "change the position where the boiler is in the system" - ie: from upstairs to downstairs. Yes, I'll be getting a new boiler when the work is done. I agree that it would be madness to put a...

Hi all, Please excuse me if this has already been answered in another topic, I'm hunting for some advice. I'm chosing some spots for my bathroom, Screwfix is proably going to be the place I get my stuff from. I'd like to: Have soft start (which I think is where the lights build up to...

Erm... I won't be doing this myself, no way hosay. I'll be getting a registered CORGI person to do the work obviously. My questions were more about getting my head around how it could be done, so that I can either worry about ripping up a new floor when we come to move the boiler, or leave...

Hi I have a combi boiler, which was installed by the previous owners in our upstairs back bedroom. I want to move it to a more suitable location downstairs in the house eventually (into a ground floor extension that isn't built yet) and have some questions ... hope somebody can help? I'm...

Hello everyone I've just had some work done on the front of our house by a local plastering / rendering firm found on one of those "recommend a tradesman" sites. It's a 1930's house with a square bay on the front, which is timber frame. We had the old render removed, down to a layer of...

Hi. I'm wanting to fit my own alarm at home and was wondering if anyone could recommend a system? I think what I'm after is basic enough - control panel, remote keypad, ability to call a number of my choice when the alarm goes off (my mobile probably). I only have 4 PIR positions to...

Thanks Zampa, that's a great help. So Johnson's Pliolite it is, watered down with white spirit, on with a roller. I'm hoping that it will dry a bit quicker this time of year, purely so that I can get on with it and have the scaffold taken down. But I won't be rushing it and painting too...

I'm due to start painting new render soon - it goes on next week. How long should I leave it before it's ready to paint? I've been looking for the right paint to use - my criteria are the same - good finish, long lasting. The Johnstone's Pliolite looks good and I was thinking of trying...

Hi all, I have render on the top half front of my house up to the roofline. I had new windows fitted eighteen months ago, white sealant was used in copious amounts to seal the join between the new frame and the exisiting render. It's the wrong way round I know.. but this summer I'm having...

Hi all, I have render on the front of my house up to the roofline. I had black fascia board, soffits and gutters replaced last year - the firm that did the job used black sealant at the join to the render. It's the wrong way round I know.. but this summer I'm having the render removed and...

Thanks for the replies. Looks like I can't swap the master socket for a nice chrome one then. :cry: I wonder why so called "master" sockets are made / sold then if it's not permitted to replace the BT NTE5. Maybe I should move the master socket into the loft alongside my structured...

Hi folks, My BT master socket is in our master bedroom, which I'm currently redecorating. I'll be replacing all sockets, switches, TV points etc with screwless flat chrome. I've bought a phone socket from Toolstation, described as a Master, listed here (item # 52322)...

Thanks very much for that. I can (and will) avoid using junction boxes in the loft, but can't get away without it at the point of splitting the ring. However we have good records of what electrical work has been done on the house by a local spark after gutting it when we bought it last year...

I'm planning to install power into my loft on the next few weeks. As I'll be running a few things up there, namely a new PC / media server and the gubbins that go with it, and would want to leave spare sockets for future planning. Having read up on this my intention is to break the...

Insect eggs... I hadn't thought of that ! I don't have any water tanks in the loft - rightly or wrongly, we're fed directly from the mains, and have a combi boiler. I've fitted a new hatch and stop bead - I suppose I could add some draughtproof seal to the stop bead. We do have some...

Thanks JohnD. We do exercise good general ventilation practice in the house already, however from what I've seen I imagine that the previous owners may not have done. The relevant section in the article looks like... Since we have renewed the insulation in the loft we seem to be getting...

Thanks very much for the link. I'll give them a ring I think, just to see if it's breathable in both directions or only in one. If it's in one direction only, I'm still not sure which way round to fix it up. Gut feeling is for it to be a vapour barrier to any moisture in the loft space to...

Hi. I have some very novice queries about the roof timbers in our 1930s semi. We have just boarded out the loft and fitted proper lighting, so can now see everything clearly for the first time after buying the house last year. Now that I can see properly in the loft space, I've noticed...