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Hi Frank, many thanks for your reply. There is a low beam directly above the doorway, so there is no need for a lintel or blocks there. Why are you suggesting heavyweight blocks? The wall is literally just a spur about a foot long. I was originally going to make it a stud wall, but, after...

To help with the layout of a new, small, ground floor bathroom, I've had to move a doorway to let me best utilise the limited space available. I've taken about a foot off the wall one side of the door, and now need to build a small wall the other side of the door. This wall will be tied into a...

I'm going to be fitting a bax mixer shower over Christmas for my mum, so I thought I'd be organised and I've bought a concealed fixing bracket to make the job easier (I hope). It's basically a metal bar with 2 brass elbows attached, each with a compression joint on one end for the supply coming...

It is kinda a crazy plan as you say, but I'm just running a few things through my head and this ticks a lot of boxes so I wanted to see if it was viable. The issue with an element in the radiator itself is that I thought the wet environment that the radiator will be in would make this...

Thanks for your response. It's a short term project, only about 2 months, so I'm not concerned about corrosion in such a short space of time.

I've described this as a central heating system, purely because the fundamental part of it is an ordinary radiator, but that's about the only thing that's ordinary about it. What I'm looking at doing is having a single radiator (say 1m by 1m), a small tank with an electric element heating it...