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Hi Hotrod, Thanks for your reply, the Ceiling joists are 9.5cm * 3.5cm, I cant get under the floor at the moment but I know the ones under there are a lot bigger, just a guess but i'd say about 15cm * 5cm. The joists span the whole width in both rooms are all are the same size, under the...

Hi, In my house the dinning room, kitchen and kitchen utility room are all separate, i'm planning to knock them all into 1 big dinning kitchen. To do this I need to remove 2 interior walls. How can I tell if these walls are load bearing or not? one of the walls runs the opposite way from...

Hi, Now that the weather is getting good again I need to work on the windows at the front of my house, there are 2 wooden windows which have been painted with a horrible fake mahogany stain/paint and the wood is showing some weather damage. I've never repaired wood before, I...

Thanks for the reply's, very helpful. The water staining wasn't on the boards until the recent snow, and its only directly above the bathroom, there is no insulation above the bathroom as the bathroom as recessed hallogen lights which have a load of electrical connections in the loft, i'm...

Hi, When I moved into my house about 3 years ago I noticed a couple of the roof boards had came away (don't know what they are called, you have the slates on the outside then the felt then whatever it is the felt is stuck to). After the rotten few weeks we've had with snow I went up the...

I did some drawings on what I plan to do in the loft, would be grateful if somebody could cast an expert eye over them and let me know if this will work, or as I need to re-position the supports does this need planning permission.

Hi, I am looking to either create storage in my garage or in my loft, I run a small business and my excess stock is stored in a spare room, while this is ok I want to free up this room for guests. I only have about 100-150kg of stock. I was thinking I could store it in either my garage...

Sorry to bring back an old post, I added sharp sand and organic material to my garden and rotovated it in, and it worked :D cant believe it, first time in 3 years I now have good quality grass growing. Over the past 2 days however the rain has been pretty much non-stop where I live, and the...

Hi, I bought my house about 4 years ago and the previous owners had just laid a new lawn, it all looked good, of course I moved in on the summer and everything was freshly laid. A couple of months later I soon found out why. Underneath the turf they had put about 1-2inches of good quality...

:D Was in B&Q last night and found this stuff, Extra Strong Solvite Active Wallpaper Stripper, it comes in a spray gun and goes on the wall yellow. I scored the border and applied this stripper, and took a scrapper to it, the border came off the wall leaving the glue still on the wall, I...

Hi, I've finally got around to decorating my spare bedroom and not before time, the previous owners had painted the whole room blue, blue walls blue roof, blue carpet, it is horrible. They also added a blue patterened border around the whole room, how nice :) Today I tried to remove that...

I've just recently had my bedroom skimmed with a new coat of plaster, everything looked great until I did the mist coat. On the ceiling used to be artex, this was skimmed over and when I painted a mist coat of watered down white matt emulsion you can see the undelying artex in some places...

Found this website: http://www.simplifydiy.com/electrical/extractor-fans it says I should work out the cubic meters of the room and multiply this by 15 to 20 to get the size of fan I need. 2m x 4m x 2.4m = 19.2 cubic meters x 15 = 288...

Cheers Richard, Didn't know about the electrical certificate, it's a good job i'm no good with electricity and was going to pay somebody to do the wiring. I understand through the roof is an easier option to take but i've bored these type of holes before when fitting a tumble dryer...

Hi, I am going to be installing extractor fans in my bathroon, en-suite and kitchen and i'm looking for some advice. The room sizes are: wide long high Bathroom: 300cm 400cm 240cm En-Suite: 180cm 240cm 240cm kitchen: 300cm 300cm...

Will definetly give this a go, cheers, any ideas if the leak is in the pipework under the floor?

Hi, I recently got a new boiler installed, Worcester Greenstar 42CDi, and its working like a dream. The only problem is that the pressure steadily falls, in the past 2 months the pressure has fallen from 2bar down to 1bar, so I topped it back up to 2bar with the filling loop. There must...

Thanks for all your help, I agree there is a lot of soot, but the boiler has been there since the house was built (about 20 years) and I don't think previous owners took care to ever clean the cupboard. There is a ventalation pipe running up through the roof and a vent at the top of the...

No problem, the boiler is called a Marathon 50C... Thanks

To be honest I dont know how the cylinder is heated, I assume its a boiler as when I turn it on using the controls I can hear flames firing up. It's the same unit which heats the central heating water which heats the water for the cylinder. The cylinder is right above this unit in the same...