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I'm in the process of renovating a house and have just finished off putting foil faced insulation board (Cellotex) under all of the rafters in the attic. I was planning to put my satellite multi-switch and terrestrial TV booster / distributor in the attic and cable running across the attic...

Thanks for the replies. I’ve done the calculations for the radiators and then looked at the pipes are actually in place and it is something along the lines of – From the boiler there are two pipes (one 15mm, one 22mm / 7/8) that go into the cement floor. From there, there are four 15mm...

Hi all, I'm about to start to fit chip boarding to my loft (Victorian end terrace), I know that I have to leave a gap so that the chip board shouldn't touch the eaves (to allow air flow), but is there a recommended or minimum gap that is required? Similarly should there be a gap...

Sorry OP I don't know the answer, I was searching the answer to a similar question and came across this thread, so if there is anyone that knows the answer, I'd also appreciate a reply. Thanks in advance for any replies.

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I've bought a Victorian 2 up 2 down which I am in the process of renovating. The mains fed central heating system has been altered and added to several times resulting in a hotch potch of different size and types of pipes with many joints and blanked off ends. The one good thing is that it had...

You’d be surprised how many you need! I counted up how many I used currently and counted 12 single points and was in my living room only (TV, DVD, Sky, Playstation, CD Player, Amp, Landline, mobile charger, Laptop, Fishtank x2, lampshade)! Being as I hacked all the plaster off, I don’t see the...

Hi all, Sorry, another ‘how much does it cost’ thread. I’m trying to get a feel for how much it costs to rewire a 2 / 3 bed terraced house (less the kitchen). The specification is pretty much as follows (basic white fittings) - 27 Double Sockets 12 Light Switches 8 Single Lights 1...

Thanks all the replies. I started to get quotes from a TV installer and an electrician and yes it has got expensive rather quickly! I decided to the TV / sat / network installation myself, but are struggling to work out what width metal gang boxes I should be using. Bearing in mind that...

I’m currently in the process of renovating a house which needs all the plaster hacking off all the walls and total electrical rewire. As I having this work done, I thought that I would just as well bring the house up to a ‘well above average’ (I’m not talking ‘state of the art’) standard on the...

Since posting this, I did some further research and started to do some stripping on the many layers of paint on the newel posts and bannisters. I got the point where I could see the dowels for the upper newel posts. These were drilled out and with a bit of gentle encouragement the upper newel...

That sounds like an ingenious way of doing it! A couple of questions - did you lay anything like netting or foil under the bottom of the joists to stop the insulation dropping down? Also did you lay anything like a plastic sheet / membrane on the top of the joists / bottom of the floorboards to...

I've just bought an end Victorian terrace house which has a Cavity wall. When the Surveyor did the survey on the house, he was over the moon to see one as they are so rare. After I received the report, I rang the Surveyor and discussed the possibility of adding cavity wall insulation. He...

Did you take out any of the bits after? Was it a difficult job?

Hi all, I previously stripped the paint off the stairs of my previous Victorian house. I did it all in situ, using paint stripper, heat gun, sandpaper and lots and lots of time and graft! Anyway, I’ve moved onto house no. 2 (again a Victorian house) and want to strip the whole of the...

I'm not sure if you have resolved this issue now, but I've never seen parquet flooring originally fitted to bedrooms in Victorian / Edwardian houses (they tended to reserve the grander designs to the ground floor only), therefore there is no guarantee that the bitumen used to stick the bedroom...

Thanks all for the replies. I’ll take a look at both these potential solutions. Thanks. But if you have plastered over the conduit, doesn’t it make it hard to then change the cabling / wiring at a later date? I think that that is good advice. I’ll start doing that, so will probably come...

Sorry to bump an old post, but I’m in the same position as the OP as I’m planning to buy a house which needs rewiring, therefore giving a good opportunity to put in TV / Sat and phone at the same time. I don’t understand how you use cat5 to replace speaker wiring. How do you transfer sound...