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I'd be reluctant to spend that much on it. We were hoping to replace it next year anyway, as we need rid of the green tank to jiggle a few partitions around and make a bedroom more useable. It's just awful timing as I'm currently heavily 'invested' in blooming santa and his sudding elves lol.

It's very very quiet to be honest guys, I can hardly hear anything at all from it. Usually it's a very noisy old thing. If I had to describe the only sound it's making, then I would say it's a fan noise, it sounds more like a whir and on closer inspection balanced on me tool box, it sounds as...

With respect Tony, I don't know any engineers :) , and everyone we know either rents or has brand new houses with service cover on brand new boilers, so a recommendation is proving hard to come by. Thus I'm in the stage of trying to find an engineer I can trust. While I appreciate the vast...

Evening people, Our prehistoric boiler has ground to a halt. The Pilot light is lit, but it's not doing a great deal, the unit itself is stone cold, and needless to say there's no heating or hot water. It seems to be making a ticking noise from the control panel. I've booked an engineer...

Or you could try 'Open Office', it's a free open source variant of MS Office, you can open and edit all MS Office files on it. http://download.openoffice.org/ :)

Hi people, I'm trying to get my head around the building regulations, and what is actually safe and practical to do when it comes to drilling/notching floor joists. I've read that you can notch the joists, but only up to 0.15 of the joist depth (is this correct?) and only within the...

Oh dear, what have I walked into lol :lol: The idea came to me purely because we have limited depth to work with....it's very very borderline whether we could fit in insulation and screed and get it all level....it's more likely we'll end up with the finished floor height exceeding the...

yes there's reasons? :lol: indulge me lol :)

Potentially a silly question which I haven't thought through, but my head is absolutely killing today lol. If the subfloor is completely level (just humour me here lol), and there's Celotex/Kingspan already laid (no screed), is there any reason why Marmox board (or other tile backer board)...

Did the 'old' 50% glazing rule apply to each wall, or just total area? I liked the idea of some sort of conservatory/extension with brick sides but full length glass panels at the front. Does this now in effect mean that you could build a brick extension without building regulations...

Yeah it is on our land (just), right where I'm wanting to put a new fence (previously the bottom of the garden/drive was open fronted), but I will try and clarify, is it likely to be Council or Fire Brigade who deal with this do you think?

Yeah that's the sort of thing, although the one we have looks more like a stubby version of this:- The yellow bit on the front has long gone, probably ripped off by kids (can't see it anywhere). Wonder what to do with this, as a marker it's useless as there's no information on it, I...

Hi all, after clearing a bit more of the bushy weedy stuff from the front of the house, there's a small 'gravestone' looking thing....I seem recall a decade ago it having a yellow piece of metal with a black H and some numbers on it (this appears to have fell off and probably been chucked by the...

Hi everyone, I'm looking at maybe putting down some sort of Gravel or Aggregate on our driveway (now a lot bigger after lopping down some hedges) as a cheaper option to having the whole lot block paved. I understand a weed barrier will need to be used, but this got me thinking about...

Lol, define a 'big one', what make/model are we talking about? :lol:

Hi everyone, I'm looking at buying a Black and Decker Scorpion/Bosch Multisaw, or other similar reciprocating saw, and I'm just wondering if any of you lot have any recommendations. I'm looking to pay no more than £40-80, and it would be used initially to cut a couple of feet off a coniffer...

Hi there, yeah I appreciate it'll need Building Control to take a ganders, I'm just wondering if it's purely structural, with no electrics/insulation/stairs/windows whether it would eat into our Permitted Development allowance, or not if it was kept purely as a storage area. We're looking...

Hi everyone, a quick one for you.... I'm looking to make my loft into a more useable space for storage. If I was to partially convert my loft, replacing the current wooden W shaped truss arrangement with beams/purlins, and putting thicker floor joists in and new chipboard flooring, would...

Good stuff, thanks folks, it really is evil stuff, I had visions of it being impossible to get rid of. :D

Hi everyone, got a big old tree, about three times the size of our house (the street was designed around the trees) which is partially within our boundary. The field next to the tree has a bit of an issue with bindweed, which the housing association that owns the field seems reluctant to do...