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Hi Guys, I am looking at putting a TV into our bedroom, and the ideal place to put it is on the wall that used to be the fireplace. Our house is a 30's build and the previous owners decided to put plasterboard over the fireplace and installed a radiator. If you tap the plasterboard, it...

Hi Guys, I am slowly working through the list of things that I can tackle in our newly bought 30's house. One of the things that we wanted to do was for the main bedroom to have exposed floorboards. We thought that this was going to be simple as every other room had floorboards under the...

Thanks for the reply. I am really shocked that it is costing so much. I can see the actual hardware costing £1500 including say an £800 stove, but £2500 to install!!!

Hi guys. I have just had a quote of nearly £4k to turn my existing gas fire installation into a wood burning fire. This including everything including a £1000 wood stove. We are going for a standard box with a stove in it and a wood (or concrete wood effect) mantle and matte granite hearth...

Thanks Eric I would love to be able to wait 6 months, but we need to fully redecorate so it would be counter intuitive to decorate and then rewire. Also remember that I am not (hopefully) chasing full height of the walls. Only the bottom foot or so. I have also just picked up from lidl a...

Hey Guys, Well the time to completion is getting ever closer. I am still trying to work out if I should just get someone in to chase the walls, or if I want to try my hand at it. How long would it take a sparky (or handiman) to chase in 15 back boxes, approx foot off the ground, in both...

Thanks again for you reply. I am also looking at chucking in sattelite cable into a few of the rooms, as at the moment we have sky multi room. Luckily I have a friend who is an installer. Audio wise, I have started the expensive road of Sonos, so no need for audio cables. I have a micro server...

Hi Lucid, Thanks for the reply. i work in IT, so I have quite a bit of experience with networking. But it has mostly been in businesses and schools, where we usually just chuck everything into external trunking. I have a very clear idea of what the networking is going to be doing, and also...

Hey Guys, In the midst of buying a 1930 4 bed house. One of the first jobs I want to try and do before we decorate is to fully network each room with Cat6. I am looking to chase the walls (foot from ground), lay the cable, punch down and terminate myself, but get someone in to plaster the...

Hi guys, We are in the midst of buying a 1930s house at the moment, and one of the things we are looking to do is to turn the dining room into a kitchen diner, and split the kitchen into a utility room / shower room. To do this, we will need to move or replace the existing boiler. All other...

No worries Planenut. If there was a wealth of properties out there, this wouldnt be an issue. It is just that this place is in the right location to get into an amazing secondary school, as well as ticking all the boxes (big garden, period place etc) I know that from what everyone says...

The reason we are still trying to get this place is that there is nothing else available..

Thanks guys, I know at the moment it is a sellers market. After speaking to our estate agent (who is selling our house), he has told us not to automatically expect a reduction in price to cover all the works. I have hopefully got a damp and timber survey next week (before they are inundated as...

Thnks footprints. I really like the house, and there is no way that I am going to pay over the odds for it. If all the works comes back at say £40k, I will only accbe looking to have £40k off the price.

thanks for all the replies.... We had a full structural survey done, and luckily due to downsizing, we are not needing a mortgage (moving from the hustle and bustle of London) It was the surveyor who viewed the roof. He also said that the rear patio and side access had been built up to be...

Hi Guys, Just had a survey done on a renovated 4 bed semi house we are buying in kent, and it has not come back good... We are awaiting back the written survey by the end of the week, but so far the issues are..... Leak in the roof, which has rotted and snapped a rafter. Lots of damp from...