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Hi Tony, Thanks so much for your reply, I have actually got a friend of mine who is a plumber coming to stay later this week so I thought I would just wait and get him to do it for me, which makes it very easy for everyone (apart from him!!) Thanks so much for your help, Dave

Hi Tony, Thanks for your response, it is indeed a brass one by the looks of it, what is the best thing to use to try cleaning/declogging it as this would obviously be the easiest solution? And what tools do i need to take it apart, just a couple of adjustable spanners? Thanks so much, Dave

Hi rjm2k, Sorry I should have been more specific, it's new to us but definitely not new, it's a Victorian terraced house that hasn't been updated in a while (although the central heating system was redone 5 - 8 years ago which is a lot newer than most other things here!) Thanks very much...

Hey everyone, My girlfriend and I have just bought a new house and we have a cold water tank in the loft. Whenever we have a bath or a shower and use a significant amount of cold water the overflow from the tank starts pouring out water because the ball float does not seem to float properly...

Thanks Jeds, that's very helpful. Looking through the SPGs i realise that i did see that restriction previously but it says this is not relevant if the outside space is not suitable for family use which the planner i spoke to on the phone said it would not be considered as. There doesn't however...

Hi there, thanks for your response. I have already done this (I did this before submitting the application and I spoke to a planning officer) but i found no mention of it anywhere. This is not to say it doesn't exist but i certainly couldn't find it (and by all accounts the first planner i spoke...

Thanks for your reply, that was rather what I thought as well! I will ask him for more details about the planning docs and see what he says. He claimed that most boroughs in London have similar regulations (but many have a minimum size of 2 bed flats with access to the garden rather than 3). I...

Hey everyone, Myself and my girlfriend have just bought a Victorian house in Hackney, London (standard 3 bedroom, 2 storey house). It has a very small patio (about 12 feet long) with a recording studio at the end of the patio (the end of our patio is a 13 ft high wall of the recording...

Thanks very much for your reply OwainDIYer, I thought as it was ground floor then the windows would be classed as an escape route as long as they open in the correct way? If not I can put a door in the bedroom out into the garden which could act as a fire escape route? If it is true that...

Hey everyone, My girlfriend and I are in the process of buying a victorian terraced house in Stoke Newington, London (borough of Hackney) to live in. We are going to submit a preplanning application to see if there's any likelihood of getting permission to convert it into 2 flats (for various...

Hi Nige, thanks so much for your reply that is what i was hoping to hear :) As you say it would appear all we can do to find out is to dig a hole in the floor, which the vendor might not be too keen on. Would we get away with drilling some boreholes to establish what's under there or are you...

Hey everyone, Myself and my girlfriend are buying a Victorian house in North London (Hackney). It's a 3 bed house with the equivalent of a 2 storey extension on the back (but it's not an extension it's original from when the house was 1st built). In the kitchen (at the back on the ground...

Hey everyone, My question is if a residential unit has been split into flats (unofficially/without planning consent) and they are self contained with individual entrances off a communal hallway is the 4 or 10 year planning enforcement rule applicable? ie Does this mean after 4/10 provable...

Myself and my girlfriend are currently buying a flat and want to convert the existing attic bedroom (which is a legal habitable room as confirmed by our solicitor) so that it has an ensuite, ideally more light and, if at all possible, some outside space however small. It's the top floor (and...