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onetrap... Now you spell it out, nice and simple... I can see where you are coming from. And yes, I do agree with what you say. To be honest, with the way she lives her life, she would not have a problem working around using wall mounted heaters & hot water cylinder. She'll just need a...

simond, Ohh... didn't engage brain... Air Source... I will look into that. However we will still need something to heat the water up after it has been blended... My gut feeling is girlfriend won't go for it as they look, err, well, err... And sitting next to a portland stone 1700...

Onetap, Their are a few reasons behind electric WET. Keep in mind it's my girlfriend who's purchased the house (purchasing)... I would argue the point that the efficiency is the same. The WET electric system (Fushion 10 Combi) and a storage heater work in VERY different ways. 1. Due to...

This might well be Royston Vasey, and we don't have street lighting either - it's great. The pub right opposite also helps ! That reminds me, they have just had an underground LPG tank installed, I will have a chat (over a pint) with the landlord and have a look at his system - oh err ! I'll...

Working on a house grade II listed thatched cottage. It's currently got storage heaters and economy 7. For various reasons I cannot use Oil. The village has no GAS supply and customer does not want to lug GAS bottles... I'm looking at going to Economy 10 (comes on cheap 3 times a day) and...

Kahrs flooring without question. Just put 130msq down in a house I've renovated. Great stuff... The 15mm eng. stuff also has stairs nosings that fit perfectly, so you can line your stairs in it too. I was paying £25/m2 for it. It is nice to lay - oh err !

Mmm... I didn't think under permitted development you could extend past the 'front' of the house line, even if it steps back for a garage. I could be wrong however. Now, if you ARE able to do so, then you need to use similar building materials to construct the extended garage area... I...

sorry, this should really have gone into floors, stairs & lofts... how do I move it ?

I've got one place I rent and I've given it a 25mm gap on the bottom of the door and I run the extractor on max time out - the tenants hate it, but I've never had damp in their !

When I do modern renovations and do full height doors in door ways, I use 8' x 4' door blanks and cut them to size. Even these still warm a little - more so of one side is into an understairs cupboard (not heated) and the other to the room (heated). Also bloody heavy, best I've done was a 65 kg...

Hi, My girlfriend is about to purchase a 2.5 storey thatched stone Grade II listed building with a pretty steep staircase up into the ".5 storey" almost like a second story - essentially in the eaves of the roof. The listed building office, quite rightly does not like the construction of...

The best tip I can give, but has limited usability is my the guy who works for me - Rob. You point him to the area you want insulated, you leave a large pile of insulation for him. You return a few hours later, it's done perfectly with pretty much 0 waste and it's all cleared up ! Alas...

I use a plastered rule for running a stanley down and then turn the board over and snap it. No dust.

Sure, box it in as long as you leave appropriate access for maintenance. Kitchen units is quite a cheap way of doing it.

At the rear of my girlfriends house (he quickly adds) they have had two extensions. The first was perhaps 60% size of original house. The second was 50% of original house. It was passed straight away.... So, as and when girlfriend wants me to play at building, We will put an application...

You also have to have the correct sort of sander - random orbital. It must have dust extraction. Equally, you have to 'work' the surface in a specific pattern, you don't just sand it.

Hi, Was the fitter experienced with mineral and did he have the correct tools ? I fit these work surfaces and you need a decent quality sander and vac - I use FESTOOL. You should be able to start from - excuse the pun - scratch on the surface. Sand it right back to rough and then...

Fair point. Quite agree. Do SIPS panels just use normal nails (from air gun/nail gun) or do they use skewed nails (as you would on a joist hanger) ? Sorry, just thinking out loud !! Not at all relevant... Paul.

My concern was prob. more aimed at it's structural capabilities in handling lateral load strains. I would guess lot's of small bits of wood (OSB3) would not be as strong as large continuous sheets of ply (running in different directions)... However, with all the glue that goes into OSB3 to make...

Under the new (well 2008) PD regs you can build a dorma upto 40m3 onto a mid-terrace. I've always constructed Dormer's using the following :- OUTSIDE Slate Horz. Batten (2" x 1") Breathable Membrane Vertical Batten(2" x 1") 18mm WBP Ply 2"x4" Stud wall (With Celotex between and...