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Maybe Specsavers would help you as I bought one flat, not the entire block. The reference was simply for scale. We're not asking for surveyors drawings yet, just a guy on a forum asking others whether anyone had experience of converting a 4 units garage into a 3 unit garage or whether it might...

Absolutely and as that will be almost impossible to achieve naturally, the only way to establish a baseline will be to do so artificially, by raising the temperature to a certain level and then maintaining it there or advancing it further. You may be starting with 18c, 15c, 9c as ambient room...

I bought a flat in a small development of 12 properties, each of which has an allocated garage. The problem is that the garages were designed in the 1970s for 1960s size cars and as such, modern cars no longer fit. This might not be such an issue except that we need to provide electric car...

A requirement will be to be able to run 2 showers and a kitchen tap and have no disruption to the hot water availability or the temperature. I have run those before from a 300/400L Megaflow on economy 7 electric with mains feed but there was no gas at that property. Now we have gas in this one...

Freehold owned by management company which is owned by the 12 flat owners with 950 years remaining.

Thanks. Forgive the layman's question but any reason why not to have 22mm all round ? Why branch down to 15mm ? Is the trade off on performance not important or would it put too much strain on a boiler ?

Thanks. I assume this is with a prospect of moving everything from tank to mains fed ?

Currently I have a gas boiler feeding the central heating on radiators (8) and towel rails (2) plus 2 bathrooms with showers and 1 kitchen sink. It is an old fashioned tank fed system with a store of hot water (limited and not enough) and an immersion backup. I have elsewhere and want...

All radiators need replacing, 3 in bedrooms, 3 in lounge, 1 in kitchen, 1 in entrance, 1 in hallway. Current setup is 8/10mm pipes and 20+ year old gas boiler. Is it worth it to feed radiators with 15/22mm and just replace all non 22mm plumbing in the property ?

I'm buying a circa 40 year old property which has central heating presumably powered by a British Gas 330+ boiler but there is also a Backersafe immersion heater. This was like my parent's setup decades ago. I want to gut the property and redo the lot but in the UK, do we have a gas boiler that...

I've been looking at some heating panels to go in a suspended ceiling, probably 1200 x 600 and perhaps like this: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/BNRP06.html However, I am concerned about 95c surface heat and the other ceiling tiles near it. I'm replacing all the tiles in any case but...

Some useful comments, thanks. For the jokes, thanks also :) To round it off, we asked and the original quote (though not detailed) had him disconnecting the existing machinery and connecting the new machinery (which won't be there on the day) and it was then padded out to a day's charge...

We're not on about a DIY option but trying to estimate the work involved when it sure isn't a day's work, which is what we first got quoted. Of course we already have single phase on site but at present the cabling in question runs from 7 x 3 phase breakers to 7 machines. The replacement...

I have a building which has and needs 3 phase power but I also have some machinery which I want to use that is single phase. So on a circuit that is currently 3 phase, what has to be done to turn it into single phase ?

I need to heat some shops which are currently using plug in oil filled radiators. There is no gas and no option for any form of central heating. I have thought about air curtains over the doors and perhaps some radiant ceiling panels but I am not sure how well these work in practice. Any...

Sorry, perhaps I was not clear. If the cost to resolve it was say around £500 then we'd just have someone in. At £1500, I'm looking at how to do it myself. There is nothing wrong with the door, only the frame is shot but it is complicated by the over door opening where reusing the existing...

Quote we have at circa £1500 or so was to reuse the existing door. Add another £500 or so for a new door ! It is commercial but in removing some machinery they cut through the existing header and the sides. Absolute mess but I'd rather not throw another £1500/2000 at it !

I have a circa 0.9m wide glazed external door where the frame has been badly bodged by some historic "carpentry" ! Consequently, I would like to rectify this and secure the entrance going forward. I have a quote of around £1500 from a good chippie but in truth, I'd like to save that cash and do...

Thanks. This would seem the ideal solution, to take the connection in trunking from an existing socket to the fused connection and then hard wire in the heater at that point. That removes the need to extend the cable from the appliance and is visually the most pleasant (aside from chipping into...

Historically the same places have run 1 or 2 x 2/3kw heaters on extension leads but I consider this unsafe and want a better solution, hence the ideal of the low heat background heater on a wall and a safe way to extend a connection to the 3kw heater (to replace the current heaters on extension...