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Ah, I see. That's a really good idea. Thanks a lot guys for all the advice and pointers!

Thanks for your reply PrenticeBoyofDerry. With regard to the bath, do you level the bath 100%, lock it in and then start a full tile on the edge? Thanks!

My wife and I are redoing our bathroom and were wondering what to start. We have done a fair bit of tiling in kitchens, dining rooms etc, and are pretty good at it by now, but never somewhere where the wall tiles meet the floor tiles. My father in law says to do the wall first, then the floor...

Hi all, I have a single socket in the kitchen that was used for the dish washer. The dish washer has since been removed and i want to just put a blank plate over the old socket. There is a single live, single neutral and two earth wires (one coming from the cable and one from the current...

Thanks for the reply loply. Yeah I would rather get rid of the moisture, rather than, like you say, just move it around. The house has solid walls with render on the outside. I put a vent into the chimney stack on the right face in the dining room a couple years ago where the problem is...

Thanks a lot for your reply Flyboytim. Is there anything that I could do to stop this happening in future years? Would adding a vent/airbrick somewhere help with the air movement in these corners? I guess this would still keep the corner cold, if not colder, but would help move the moisture...

Hi, I hope this is the correct forum to be asking this. I live in an end terrace and on the corners of each room at the gable wall, the paint is peeling and bubbling off. There is also some wet looking staining on the wall, which are quite low down up to about waist height. I have...

Hi, thanks to every one for the replies and lots of information! Very useful stuff. Remember, the current set up was in place before we bought the house, we have changed nothing except removing the stove. @Blagard: Thanks for the link, some good information in there. @Richard: The house...

Thanks for the replies. @Blagard: Ok, that was probably my bad. We lit a smoke pellet to test the draw, not a full fire, as I was suspicious about there being an ample one for the open fire. The reason we knew the stove was dangerous is when we came to redecorating. The white paint above...

Hi all, I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I moved into a house a couple of years ago that had a wood burner in the living room. A new header was installed in the breast with just a hole in the middle for the flue, and then the piping/lining all the way up to the top (at...

Thanks for your reply Blagard. None of the radiators in the house have thermostatic valves fitted (yet). What I find strange is that with the dining room radiator removed from the loop entirely, the radiator got as hot as you'd expect (incidentally, both of the radiators in the living room...

Hi all, I have a radiator on our ground floor that never gets beyond luke warm. I live in a three storey Victorian end terrace and the problem radiator is on the front outside wall. The boiler is outside at the back in a boiler house. All of the other radiators in the house are on an inside...

Thanks for your reply Charnwood. I guess what I'm after is just a timer then, my current one doesn't have temperature controls, just program when the heating should come on/off (I'll update with the model when I get home). The only temperature control I have is on the boiler (oil) itself...

This may sound like a stupid question to those in the know (and likely is), but can I replace my standard heating programming controls, with a wireless system? Currently (for reasons known only to the installer and previous owner of the house) my heating controls are outside in a utility...

Hi, we moved into a property that had a wood burning stove fitted in the living room. It turned out that the stove was ridiculously dangerous so we removed it, to replace it with a cast iron fireplace. Initially we only wanted it to be decorative, but are wondering now if we can use it. My...

I live in Northern Ireland in an old port town. I measured at the windows at the front and rear externals walls and they are both a shade over 11 inches. The external is rendered too. Does this point more to having a cavity do you think? Maybe worth drilling a hole outside a couple inches to...

Hi guys, My end-terrace house was built in 1895 and so I assume it to have no cavity due to its age. However, in our dining room we removed the plaster down to the brick on the outside wall and noticed that the brick pattern is a regular pattern, not the alternating pattern typical with...