Search results

Hi, Having an extenstion built at the moment and already have an insulated slab down. To get up to FFL I will need approx 60mm of screed but as I understand it takes 1 day per 1mm to dry. I really don't want to wait 60 days before I can start to fit my new kitchen so I am looking for an...

I'm building an extension and need a door and a window. I have planned them to be standard "off the shelf" sizes with a door height of 2100mm and a window height of 1050mm so they fit to the brick courses. I've looked at B&Q and found the perfect size door and window except the height is...

Many thanks for your reply.

Hi guys. Both stains and smells but mainly the smell as i know you can get stain block paint. Mike

Can anyone reccomend a product to cover the odour. Ive heard b i n is ment to be good. Mike

Hi, I'm looking to buy a house but the owner is a smoker and the whole house stinks of smoke. I would plan to replace all flooring but is there a paint product available that I can just paint all the walls and ceilings with that will block all odour and stains before I paint a final top...

I'm looking to move house but I need to be able to convert the garage of the new house. The area I'm looking at has had permitted development removed and planning permission is required. I know I will need 2 off road parking spaces but there seems to be a grey area in the policies. The...

I can see most of you points although I have taken advice from a professional into the correct fuse, cable size etc. I'm only tring to save the electrician time. I'm sure if I tell the electrician that I have saved him chasing a wall, climbing in a cramped loft space etc etc then he will be...

they probably don't like it because they know they can make more money on parts. i will be getting 2 quotes. supply and install and install only. mike

Its OK, I've seen an MK for cheaper on Screwfix and I can get a 45a MCB for MK. Thanks Mike

Hi, I'm looking to have a 10.5kw electric shower installed. Its a Triton shower and the instructions state I need a RCD and a 45amp MCB. My consumer unit is the old re-wireable fuse wire type so I plan to have a new consumer unit put in. I will be getting an electrician to install the...

You should lay a vapour control layer over the celotex. To quote from Celotex's installatiion guidelines based on over slab installation... "Lay a polythene vapour control layer over the insulation to minimise the risk of condensation and to prevent liquid screed migration" Just go to...

No advice sought as the groundworks guy seemed to know what he was doing. water company want a cross section plan to show the pipe was bridged correctly, but they say they need to see 600mm either side of the pipe. so back to my original question..... mike

Plans were drawn but the water plan supplied by the water company was way out, at least 2m. the groundworks guy did the foundations and said he does it this way all the time. even building control was happy. mike

A friend of mine is building an extension and the foundations will cross a public sewer line. The sewer pipe is about 2.3m deep and the foundations have been dug down to the invert level of the pipe. Shuttering was used either side of the sewer pipe, approx 150mm either side, and then the...

I have a showerforce turbo 2 pump in my loft. It was already installed when I moved in. There was some spluttering and assumed air lock issues so I installed a surry flange to the top of the tank and this seems to have sorted it. After I found the instructions for this pump it suggests...

OK, so the topic of boarding over insulation has been covered lots but my main observation is people have recommended cross-batterns of around 50 - 100mm so you don't compress the insulation. In my loft my rafters (trussed) are 70mm deep so with 270mm of insulation I would have to use 200mm...

Perfect - Cheers guys. Mike

Thanks for that - so just to confirm... So I can take a dry lining backbox and install it in a custom made wooden box and then wire up a double socket as described by Taylortwocities? Many Thanks Mike

I've after a desktop socket or even one of thoes pop-up sockets but they are very expensive, even on ebay. All I need is a switched double socket above the desk that can plug into the wall socket below the desk. I've thougth of a switched extension gang but I do like the pop-up or desk top...