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I got a vent axia from screwfix and it’s almost silent. Look for the lowest decibel rating, a few lower than most makes a big difference in a quiet bathroom. We can see the steam flying out the vent when it’s cold outside.

Mine took over a week of tweeking the flows to each of the zones to get the right temp in each room. Mine is set in concrete though and takes a day to see any difference. The boiler is set to 70 but the ufh regulates down to about 45 and that keeps the house at 23. I needed to move flow from the...

The trickle vent is kept closed, the neighbour is quite loud when he’s talking but it’s like he is in the room with you and he’s a good 10ft away. They have a wooden building with a window in that’s near ours that’s always open and he sits right next to it. I thought new windows were supposed to...

We have keylite manual windows and they are fine. We wanted electrical but the extra cost for 4 of them was a fortune and better spent elsewhere for us. The rain noise on them can get annoying when trying to sleep but the extra light and ventilation is worth it.

I have had new windows fitted but they are terrible at keeping noise out. I can hear the neighbors talking away like they are in my room. They were fitted as part of an extension and the cavity was filled full of fibreglass insulation and the edges were filled with foam then screwed to secure...

The builders added it to mine as the extension runs at an angle

You will need to coat them loads of times with danish oil. Mine had about a dozen coats by the time the fitters left and need to be done each week for the first few months to build up the protection. The wood will look loads better once coated, just a bit on a lint free cloth and wipe with the...

Run a full bath and see if it keeps going hot then cold, after a few mins of running it should be a constant hot stream of water.

I've had wet underfloor heating installed and I'm trying to figure out how to get it balanced properly. It's four zones plus rads upstairs. Rads are nice and hot and three of the zones (2 in kitchen and 1 in living room) are nice and warm floor with the rooms easily up to 24 degrees. The bedroom...

We had a 5m beam installed that holds the corner of our house up and that cost a grand for the beam and calcs were 250 which included 4 beams plus 2 ridge beams. Try your council building regs guy, he is likely to know someone who he works with.

Our 1ton beam that supports the entire corner of the house had to have a 3 engineering brick pillar, this was more down to the building inspector than the architect. The architects don't always get the dimensions right on the drawings compared to what building control will allow.

I'm looking at putting wet under floor heating into the downstairs while doing my extension but have a few questions. I have a baxi duo tec 40kw combi, would this be suitable to run the upstairs rads and the underfloor heating? The temp needs to be able to be set for each room, kitchen, living...

I bin every letter that comes from a random builder who has been touting for work through planning applications. They just don't seem trustworthy to me. They could be the best ever, but it just a seems an underhand way of getting business.

Could you use an engine crane or 2 to lift and move it around?

If it's an older car and not worth much it can cost more to have the cambelt and tensioner replaced than it is to buy another cheap car. Mine was due 15k miles ago but it's a 53 plate car and a nitemare to change it. I'll change the car before the belt. I have a 61 plate Astra but that's worth a...

I've tried a splitter like the one posted above and it gave a really dodgy picture, if a picture at all. I just use the normal tv out/rf2 cable and connect a magic eye on the end so I can change channels from the other room

It looks like the actual flue is within their boundary but when it starts extracting it's then crossing into your side. It should be about 2m from a boundary. Even the fence looks to be offset from the house, add in the roofing, the line of paint and the small gravel soak away on the floor, it...

I'd be very careful about demanding the removal as you are going to need their cooperation if you need to dig your foundations next to their wall.

The paint on the back wall seems to show the boundary as being on the outer edge of the over hanging guttering. Looks like there maybe 6" or so that belongs to the neighbour even if it's inaccessible.

Is it within the over hang of their guttering? It's possible it might be just within their boundary and a flume divertor kit to direct it upwards might cover them.