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Many thanks all - 50mm batons it is then :)

There's already a light in there - in a nutshell there's the cupboard (which is walk in size) and running parallel to it a larger utility room - they're both fed off the same light switch in the utility room so no separate switch - the cables are a legacy of previous owner (pre P regs :D ) so...

Possibly too late - but try and get hold of an angle grinder - it'll save yer fella loads of hard work and frustration - the pipes on mine had best part of half a cm thick pipe walls - way too much for a saw - even the grinder took a while.... Or you could just laugh at him struggling.... :wink:

Morning chaps, Currently plaster-boarding over a wall in a big cupboard that has some cables running along it unprotcted (it's just bare brick so the cables just been clipped onto it). I'm fixing batons to the wall then attaching the board onto that, which will create a void of about 2...

Did that bit months back when I built the columns, just taken me 3 months to get round to doing the rest of it :oops: Was thinking about that, but wanted to be 110% sure it weas solid, hence the use of rod to secure it to the wall - if the effort needed to get the s*dding thing onto the...

Cheers fella, Did a strange combination of the 2 at the weekend - fitted 12mm threaded rod deep into the wall, and drilled holes into the sleeper, (filled the holes with gripfill and hammered the rod into the wall), then used a bit of brute foce and ignorance to get the sleeper to slide...

D'oh! :D Nice one - yer sweep will be able to give you an idea of what to do - as for a replacement lintel - a reinforced concrete one will set you back about a tenner - maybe a bit more depending on what size it has to be - try yer local wicks. You'll need to support the stack while you swap...

Wool has served sheep for thousands of years is natural and allows moisture through.... Foil has been used for cooking turkeys for decades :) Wool's better IMHO - and as a pernikicy s*d - that fella in the loft is using normal insulation, not wool - wool's more grey coloured and you don't...

I'm wondering of Napalm's classed as organic - it's petrochemical based, and what is petrol but refined oil, and what is oil but dead organic matter left for thousands of years..... Hmm - thinking about it scorched earth policy may be a good fall back position *Time to book an air-strike...

Much appreciated folks - just got to broker the weed genocide with the other half now - she wants to have an organic garden - I just want to have a garden that I can walk into without getting nettle rash :x Happy days

Finally the end is in sigt for re-developing my house (6 long months of re-wire, re-plumb, redecorate everything, new floors, new kitchen, building works, windows and of course a new kitchen sink :) So I find my attention drawn to the garden - which since the previous occupant shuffled off...

Morning chaps, About to buy a a nice chunky sleeper as a mantelpiece, which will be supported (mostly) by a single column of bricks on either side. But I'm stuffed as to the best way to permanently fix it up - should I screw rods into the wall and "slide" the sleeper on to the columns, or...

Hmmm - tough old one this. Had excactly the same problem myself back in the summer. F'raid you're probably going to have to bite the bullet and remove the lot - but without photo's it's a bit tough to say for sure - can you provide any?? Going from personal experience I had to install a new...

Morning folks - well - having seemed to havew kicked off a debate about the properties of PVC, boss white & hemp, potable water and god knows what else, I thought I'd better post back with the results..... ...... ...... Good news!!! I decided to play it ultra safe and...

Thanks for the advice folks - didn't mean to kick off anything though :oops: Guess my sucess or faulure rate will be measured by me either posting back here or in the DIY disasters thread on Monday morning.... Wish me luck :)

This is true - however the "way to tell" - if resulting in a response of "oh - it doesn't work" will also result in me getting what is known in domestic circles as "a kicking, plus a night on the sofa" - and I really don't want that :wink:

Morning chaps, Just wanted to check this before I take the plunge and finish the job I'm working on - Fitted a new cold water storage tank in my loft last weekend (need to increase hot water pressure from the h/w tank etc etc), last weekend I fitted the tank up in the loft (old one's...

Cheers Chris & Gasman - muchos appreciated..... So I take it that the tank lids are a right sod to fit if you have to feed the expansion pipe through?? Oh well - such is life I guess.... Cheers for the advice - doubtless I'll be back for more advice as I start the work :D

OK, cheers for that - but seeing as I'll have a cutout in the lid and the bylaw 30 kit is stuff like a valve to let air in to the tank but not nasties like flies, what's the point in the kit? and should I waste 7 quid on it seeing as how I'll have a cutout? Does this remove the need to conform...

Morning folks, More question in the ongoing saga of me moving my cold water tank up to the loft to increase pressure / reduce noise that annoys the missus when I run hot water at night coz of the noise of the tank filling back up. Went to a few places last night to cost up replacement...