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I am not doing the works - Its a friends place Was just curious how much this would cost if I did something similar - What is your view?

I have attached pictures of the area I mean. There is a black strip on top of the ground floor windows which is worn very badly. Does this need replacing or should I paint it with Bitumen style paint? Is this like a black felt band?

I have attached pictures of the area I mean. There is a black strip on top of the ground floor windows which is worn very badly. Does this need replacing or should I paint it with Bitumen style paint? Is this like a black felt band?

Yes and am getting quite silly quotoes of about one grand for a simple visonic system I think thats steep considering security warehouse sell the Kit for £300 inc vat

A straw poll of people I work with indicated this would cost upwards of 25K That seems increddibly expensive - My personal view is that you would get change from 10K

Have considered buying the Yale wirleess EF-KIT3 alarm. It looks pretty neat and does have iphone intreaction - I have read about a few problems that people on here have had. My question is whether it is possible to not use the Yale bell box and use a ADT box. Basically I do not want people...

Hi Does anyone know any suppliers who will supply the new visonic powermaster 33 with the KP-250 keypad? Seems like a nice bit of kit which has a shiny keypad. If anyone is around in north london to do this that would be great as well - Obviously on a paid basis!

Visited a friend of mine who has constructed an outbuilding. I took some pictures below. He is a bit quiet about costs and how long it took I wanted to ask what the cost of this would be if I wanted to build something similar. I am in london - It measures 9 m long and 2.4 m high. It is all...

I have a rather old boiler system and have found a two port valve which feeds my hot water cylinder. I cannot find a two port valve on the central heating pipework. The boiler is a back boiler which is not a combi - It is an ideal mexico I recently bought a Drayton MiTime programmer with...

Hi Not sure if this is the correct place but our alarm needs a reset. We live in North London (near Cricklewood). The system is a Scantronic 8361 and if it cant be reset then we might well choose to upgrade to a new system (provided its sensible to do that) Please PM me if you are...

They are getting paid by the day - So it does matter to me It means we under budgeted for this !!! I am trying to see whether they are useless or we are optimistic

Our place is getting drywalled at the moment - I bought 35 sheets of 2.4*1.2 plasterboard. Two guys have been working on this for about 4 days now - Does that sound long to you or not? I honestly thought it would take a lot less time to put these up. Some of the boards have been dot and...

This weekend my hubby will be putting down engineered floorboard We have already bought the floor and underlay but we are thinking whether to put something on top of the floor boards? I was thinking of buying 18mm Plywood as a base (which is thick!!) but Selco suggested we use 4mm...

Me and hubby recently bought a small studio flat. It is very small. There is no gas only electric. There is a cylinder with an immersion heater which is about one metre high. Is it possible to get much smaller cylinders or heater elements. I am thinking of having something equivalent to an...

Me and hubby recently bought a small studio flat. It is very small. There is a chimney breast which I would like to remove but we have had conflicting advice from some tradesmen. The chimney breast above has been removed many years ago and there are gallow brackets in the flat upstairs...

Hello helpful people I have an old boiler - Its about 20 years old. It has a Drayton programme switcher . I have noticed that I cannot switch on just the hot water. If I want hot water I need to switch on heating as well or use the electric immersion heater which is super expensive...

Hi It was previously glossed woodwork. Should I try and put on another coat of gloss after a week like has been suggested once it has cured and I have done a scratch test? Mind you my nails are quite long and sharp so I might get through the paint easily

It needs a second coat - Can I get away with another coat of gloss after a week or should I stick undercoat on and then gloss after? Thats where I am getting confused about

Hi All I am looking to have someone drain our boiler and clear out sludge without power flushing (as done want to damage radiators) that are old Th eproblem is I cannot find someone reliable - I try to stay away from those MyBuilder / ratedpeople websites so can anyone suggest where...

Hello guys and girls My hubby started on painting outside the house and did not use an undercoat. The woodwork was in genrally good condition and he just applied to coats of leyland gloss Should undercoat have been used and what do you suggest we do now? Should we put on a further coat...