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Wish I thought of that before I started. I’ve started putting up a few of the acoustic boards so probably more work to take them down now and instigate that plan

Thanks all. I have done a fair bit of research as well (previous house was very close to motorway- too close as it transpired, so we moved to a complete doer-upper!). The rationale for acoustic was I needed to reboard anyway, it was only a few pounds more than regular. I did have a look/think...

Thanks. Again fair point. It was one of those ones where the price difference versus normal boards wasn’t that much. The double boarding is as much to achieve the same ceiling depth as the adjacent lounge (which I’ve now knocked through to) to be honest. I should add I’ve already got the...

Thanks yes I do have a board lifter. I'm thinking that you are right and I have made an error. Perhaps the layer of the acoustic and then regular 9.5mm on top? I am using some rockwool as well. I was looking at the specs and thinking the difference as said was not that much but looking again...

Hi all, I'm reboarding my kitchen ceiling at the moment and just wanted to check on the below before proceeding further. Firstly, the existing ceiling was double plasterboarded. The reasons for taking it down was due to part of it sagging as a result of a previous leak (self inflicted-...

Thanks- makes sense.

Hi all, I'm currently renovating our kitchen, with an adjustment in layout and as such changing a freestanding cooker (induction hob and oven rated at 10kW) to having a separate hob on an island, with two built in ovens on another cabinet run. I have the dedicated 32A breaker and associated...

Yeah I was thinking I might have got to that point. The plumbing underfloor in this house has generally troubled me! I’ve debated whether we just need to bite the bullet and repipe before I completely redo all of the flooring downstairs. It does look a bit ropey, plus we have had small leaks...

Thanks- I've checked and a magnet doesn't stick to it. I can't see any markings or seams on that section of exposed pipework I took a photo of either. That said, that particular bit is in our living room where a section of floorboard has been cut out for access but I haven't done this yet in the...

Hi all, I’m redoing our kitchen at the moment, and I need to relocate a radiator to accommodate the design. The main flow and return pipework goes around the perimeter right under both where current radiator is, and where I planned to install the new one. Therefore what I had planned to do was...

It depends. A lot of radiators in your house may be perfectly sufficient to meet heat loss. We ended up upgrading just under a third- mostly K1s to K2s (one K3). Doesn't make sense imo to replace boiler and not at least explore an ASHP and get heat loss calcs/quotes. Just don't believe the...

Absolutely makes sense to explore ASHP options if you are replacing the gas boiler anyway- even more so with solar albeit granted you won't see much benefit in the winter months. UFH not required and probably unlikely you need to double capacity of all of the radiators.

Great. Thanks. Yes definitely only for the extractor fan.

Probably worded the above badly. I meant just cutting the wires at the top, where they drop down, and connecting them up together. I wanted to check if regs allowed the connections in the void if they were in a maintenance free junction box which I think they do?

Hi all, We have an extractor fan in our kitchen that I am going to remove (we will sort an alternate extraction solution). I can see the ring circuit cables coming down into the isolator switch (top right-ish of photo). Thought I'd better check- is it just a case of connecting the wires and...

Might be a bit late in the day if you have already bought the tray, and I'm not saying you don't want to firm up the sub floor as much as possible regardless of what your tray is constructed from- but the risk of cracking is the reason I went for a steel shower tray for the second shower room we...

Sounds about right. You either need to micromanage and check everything where most trades are concerned (and ideally have a payment plan that protects your interests i.e. a decent final payment, only payable when everything is thoroughly checked and working as it should), or do it yourself. I've...

If it were me I'd definitely explore the cabinet idea that you mentioned in your first post with back to wall pan...assuming you have sufficient room in front. Then hopefully a simple right angle fitting would more or less take it directly out through the hole. For one of my bathrooms I used...

No it doesn't. There's a window in the way, plus the way it is currently routed to run alongside the pressure relief pipework is the neatest way of doing it. The best way of doing it then would be to use rigid conduit pipe? I was looking at the galvanised steel conduit which is presumably the...

Thanks for the very detailed explanation and diagram (y) I just wanted a sense check as quite unbelievably the guy is insisting it should be fine and it is a fitting (as in the part) failure. As soon as I had a proper look at the gland it was obvious it was going to leak in that orientation as...