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Hi, We have opened up an old fireplace and were going to put a wood burning stove in it. A fella came round and did a smoke bomb and smoke leaked out of the chimney stack on the roof. So we were going to get a steel liner dropped in. The missus has now decided she wants an open solid fuel...

I haven't bought any boards yet so will get what people recommend. Is scraping/sanding the best approach then - i guess over 21mtre square it would be quite time consuming? Don't get me wrong we're not afraid of the work but the whole house is being renovated so we've a mulititude of jobs...

Cheers - will take the chipboard up and replace with ply as you say. What about leveling over the old mortar on the remaining ply in the dining area? Am I best to use a leveling compound, a thin sheet of ply or will the laminate underlay be sufficient to cover any anomalies? Cheers

Hi, We are having our breakfast kitchen redone, it's dimensions are about 3m by 7m. Half of the floor seems to be solid, with old tiles on top, then chipboard, then the mortar/residue from the tiles I lifted. The other half is plyboard nailed directly to the wooden joists. Again this...

Cheers chris. So you would advise burying these in a stud wall if we potentially need access. We are having a false ceiling put in the room below so I might ask the builder to lower it more so the wast pipe can run under the old joists but above the new ceiling. That way there should be...

sorry my maths is letting me down :D I meant for the gradient to be shallower - so I guess something like 1:50. So if I use hep VO traps on each shower and keep the gradient at 1:40 then I shouldn't have any problem with having two shower running into one 50mm pipe? cheers

Hi, we are having our bathroom redone to divide it into an ensuite and main bathroom. We'll end up having two showers side by side. The joists mean the wastes have to run above floor level. To hide the waste rather than boxing it in we had a double stud built with a 65mm gap to run the...

Hi - probably a daft question but here goes. Can you get mono taps for basins wiht one tap hole that don't have a pop up waste lever on them? We want the push waste so we are wondering if we have to avoid mono taps with the pop up waste lever on them. Cheers john

Hi, We are having our whole house renovated and the builders have got on alot quicker than expected. So quick in fact that they say the plastering could start next week. The snag is I thought they would take longer and have only just ordered our bathroom suites (for a main bathroom, an...

cheers for confirming that. I'll ring BC to make double sure in case different councils have a different take (apparently sheffield don't approve some insulation that most other councils do) thanks again

I was always under the impression that a toilet door could not open into a kitchen and you would need some sort of lobby area and two doors dividing the two rooms. After googling this it seems not to be the case and I could have a toliet door opening into the kitchen as long as the toilet had...

I am currently gutting our house and have stumbled across some wet rot on the 2nd floor floor joist. The area where the rot is had a shower above it (I don't think it has been used in about 6 years since the previous owners bought the house) so the rot has dried out. The problem is the rot...

Probably a daft question - if you have new studwork would you get the door lining for the internal doors fitted before plasterboarding? Just need to know when I specify what I want from the builder. Cheers John

nah, not dot and dabbing - there is a fair bit of that needed as well but I'll leave that to the plasterers. The plasterboard is for all the attic rooms (3 rooms + shower room) and the second floor (4 walls need boarding). Plus ceilings to 6 rooms and the entire 2nd floor. I think the...

Hi, We're renovating a terraced house that we hope to move into before Christmas. A builder recently gave us a quote of £13K for putting up studs, plasterboarding, insulation, soundproofing, kitchen fiiting, some other odds and ends and all the joinery work. I've already ripped everything...

We've been to a few plastering places around Sheffield (aristocrat, troika, abbey mouldings) and had a look at their cornices and they look really good. Plus you'll be able to see the detail rather than the original coving which is covered in layers of paint. At about £20 for a 3m length it...

Hi, I've taken down a lath and plaster ceiling and in the process we've lost a 2 metre length of coving. We are going to plasterboard the ceiling and would like to keep the coving . The builder suggested it might be easier (and cheaper) to hack the remaining coving off and put some new...

ah, the other side of the hills - an idylic land! Live in Sheffield but a born and bred Lancastrian. Cheers for the URL I'll take a gander. Greshams near us had some 3 inch Victorian architrave that looked good. And the double torus skirting looks good enough for the skirting. The next...

off to travis perkins to see what they have in stock. Otherwise I'll get in touch with some local joiners (sheffield area)

cheers for the advice - i'll do as you say. Take the standard stuff off. The ornate stuff isn't that ornate - it's just alot more moulded than the modern sort of san stuff. Off to Travis Perkins with a cut off the architraves to see if they have anything matching. Cheers john