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That is exactly what I was looking for, simple and easy to just press the button and go take a shower.

Could you please suggest a timed switch for the towel rails in the bathrooms, and would like them to be in the region of hours, so an ideal "switch" might be just two buttons, one does 1 hour and the other does 2 hours. Those I have found go up to 12 minutes I think which is not enough.

I have a whole lot of these, Marmox boards they are called. I originally got them to tile over shower areas upstairs.

Exactly right! After every stage there is another to fix the problems created by the previous guys. Always the same story.

I have 37.5mm insulated plasterboard I could use, but I am worried about the fixing, it is just foam (rigid but still) and paper at the back. I want something sturdier.

There is a steel beam/lintel above my patio doors and above the front door. This mass of steel will transfer heat above the doors to the outside, so I will likely get condensation over the doors. Typically the exposed part of that steel lintel would be covered by 12.5mm plasterboard, which I'd...

In my current room, ceilings are low (2.3m), and you got to be directly under a spot light to discern details, plus there are areas with no spots above. It is a terrible design, and as I am getting older, eyes are failing, I need a lot of light to be able to discern details. For my new house I...

Hi guys, I am trying to choose the right downlights for kitchen and the living room, I see there are two main choices, one choice is GU10 compatible, so you can buy and replace, if needed, your own lamps, or, all in one LED downlights, where I presume you replace the whole unit if it goes...

There is a lot of condensation in the loft. It is a cold roof, with tiles on battens on membrane over rafters. Insulation in between and under rafters. Water condenses on the inside surface of the membrane. The membrane is Tyvek Supro and is 100% water proof. And costs a bomb. This happens on...

Yes and only 2 rooms have developed the cracks. I am terrified now and keep checking everytime I visit for new cracks but none so far. Touch wood. If it transpires that the cracks remain constant, then I will simply fill them in. The issue is that they are hairline almost, and impossible to...

There are plenty of noggins and steel beams there is absolutely no movement anywhere. Plasterboards are placed across the plywood and the joints do not coincide The cracks have only appeared where plasterboards join and nowhere else. On a lot of plasterboards. Will fill in all the cracks...

I ordered a low aluminium threshold for my very large and very heavy patio doors. This threshold is 135mm wide, and made of almost nothing. The doors being extremely heavy need good base support. I could not have the threshold hanging over the cavity, so I placed a 10mm thick steel plate over...

How did you close or cover the cavity in the end? How deep is it?

Ha ha, good idea. But why would tape cause a problem? Not sure if I mentioned this, plywood is a prolific material in construction: over the rafters, under the rafters, dormer cheeks and fronts, membrane above and below joists, partition walls, tiled over vertically or horizontally, it is used...

Sorry I meant 50mm overall diameter instead of 100mm. I am not sure what capacity I need, I do not think there is a minimum mentioned anywhere? So if there was a partial blockage in the hose you'd not know it for ever. Was my thinking. I did consider vertically up, and down, may still do that...

Hi, I have a cloak room and an ensuite next to each other, in the middle of the house, with no possibility of venting. There is a small crawl space above the ensuite ceiling to house one or two inline extractor fans and ducting hoses. I want to merge the two hoses and route them through the...

No heating in the house yet. Weather was 20C-22C/day and 12C-13C/night in first week, rising to 19C-25C/day and 11C-16C/night the following week. However, 4th week in, dropped to 11C/day and 2C/night. But I think the cracks had already been. Ceilings are meshed with steel beams, largest joist...

Exactly that. Oh the irony. I have been given 100% chance those ceilings will crack but they have not yet. I think now, on the ceilings with a million cracks, the plaster is spread too thin, since I can see the outlines of every single board. Being it too thin it then cracked. Other ceilings...

Yes that is what I meant, a human regulates the intensity of the gas hob ring by turning a button, does the boiler also regulate its burner's intensity ? The answer seems to be yes. I will consider this if I decide to install a boiler rather than a heat pump.

Excuse my ignorance, is it not a major hassle and spills everywhere with very dirty and staining water when you try to remove a radiator?