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Hi, My son has recently bought a house and is busy pulling it apart and renovating it and we have a couple of plastering-related questions that I hope you can help with. One of the rooms has textured paint on the walls and it seems that the best option to get rid of it is to have it...

A very good point about this being a good time to bite the bullet and get all the work done. I think based on what has been said it's time to get somebody to look at it. Cheers all.

The reason I was thinking about getting a new CU is that the house currently has an old-style fuse board. My son and his girlfriend have only just bought the place and are in test and tear-down mode at present. They have yet to move in. At the weekend my son turned on the emersion heater...

Yes, I am sure you are quite right. It's getting the point over that is not quite so easy. Thanks.

Regarding the planned 3 lights in a 1.2 x 2.5m room, does anybody have any comments on this? This is my son's/girlfriend's house and they want these lights. They are thinking of using 3 x 30-40W bulbs. Is this sensible? One in the shower cubicle, 2 outside? I think that it sounds like...

Yes, thanks for the advice, but finding a good guy should not be hard. Just by chance I am contact rich at the moment. My son is a plumber and they use a good spark, his girlfriend's dad is a builder, the kid across the road is a qualified electrician and another neighbour is an electrical...

Thanks guys. I get the idea on the zoning now. With regard to the insulation, I will look at some form of loftcap.

OK thanks, comments much appeciated. An electrician it is then.

Hi, I want to install some ceiling downlights in 2 upstairs bedrooms, but before I do I would like to know if anybody here perceives this as a fire hazard?. I am told that it should be be OK, so long as the loft insualtion and anything else that might be up there is kept a respectable...

Hi, I would like some basic advice on replacing a consumer unit. I am an electrical engineer, but not a qualified electrician, so I am not familiar with the regs, nor with working practices. When replacing a consumer unit how is the incoming main isolated? Presumably it's not just rubber...

Thanks again. I may have a builder going there at the weekend, so I will see what he has to say. Paul

Richard, Thanks, I do understand the issues and I will save a print-out of the dialogue that we have had for reference. I went back to the house at the weekend and spent some time in the loft - more to do with a partition wall that I building for my son than to do with the damp in the...

Thanks Richard. At present I don't know what the space is between the rafters and the ceiling in the area where the ceiling slopes with the roof, but I am pretty sure that it will be as small as is possible to build. It's a small house and I don't think there are any generous amounts of space...

Thanks chaps. And with regards to the mask etc., when I stuck my head in the loft last week I was struck by how many particles were visibly floating around. I got itchy just from a couple of minutes staring in. I have already made a mental note that I am not going in there without boiler...

Thanks, I appreciate all the help. I will look into Celotex. Not sure what it is as I write, but I'm on it. Cheers Paul

OK, I will check it out. Thanks again.

Thanks, I will pull the insulation away and open up a vent. I don't know what kind of ventilation is there, I have only visited twice and I didn't notice. does it have a bearing?

Hi, Thanks for a good reply. The reason I mentioned too much insulation was that I saw one web site that was suggesting that condensation could occur if insulation was not just between the joists, but starting to go up the roof aswell - closing off any venting between the loft floor and the...

Hi, Can anybody advise me on insulation between the roof rafters? My son has just bought a small house and I took a look in the loft at the weekend and noticed that it looks a mess. There is too much insulating material piled up between the joists and there is no felting under the roof...