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Ok - I have a dilemma now! I have no problem taking off the upstairs skirting but the ground floor skirting is quite ornate and alot taller than the modern stuff and I haven't seen any replica's. I guess I could get some more machine cut but I reckon this would cost a fair bit. If in the...

Hi, we've purchased a 1900 terraced house that needs renovating and we want to keep the renovations. It was an old student house and alot of the internal joinery is badly damaged. We've found some good skirting at a local timber merchant but none of the architraves look moulded enough. The...

Hi I'm just wondering if any plasterers out there can give me some advice. We're renovating a house and any loose plaster has been taken back to the brickwork and I've removed all lath and plaster / plasterboards from the stud work. So basically all that is left on the brick walls / studs...

Hi, The past owner of our house moved the original bathroom to make way for an extra bedroom. We would like to reclaim that bedroom as a bathroom and we've come up with a design to divide it into the main bathroom and an ensuite. For the ensuite the toilet will be positioned on an external...

Hi, We are putting a shower against a non-external wall and we would like the shower's waste pipe to be non-obtrusive. We were wondering if you could hide the waste pipe in the stud (the floor joists run the opposite way to what we need so we can't run them under the floor). If we have a...

Thanks for your replies - the space suite from Ideal standard seems good. I think we might have to increase our dimensions from 150m2 to 160m2 though... I'll redraw the plans. Ta

Hi, we are in the process of coming up with a design for an ensuite and we are wondering if 1.5 metre square is sufficient. We plan to have a compact toilet, an 800*800mm quadrant shower and a small corner basin. Entry will be via a bifold door. You will occupy the same floor space for drying...

Hi, We've bought a terraced house that spans 3 floors and it needs everything gutting including new central heating / boiler. We've had 4 plumbers round but they each seem to recommend different systems so I was hoping someone here could give some independant advice. In our current...

Hi we are buying a house that needs renovating. We don't plan to live it in whilst the refurb is going on. What do most people do about insurance in this situation? Do you insure them as unoccupied houses or insure them as a renovation project with the public liabilty etc? The latter seems...

15K - gees. That would leave us with 5K for the rest of the house!! I went to the homebuilding store in Swindon (which was pants but thats another story) and there they said some people spend over a 100K on it! I think I'll investigate what Chri5 mentioned... cheers for the advice

Hi, we are undertaking a full rewire for our house and we are quite keen to install some sort of home entertainment system where we can have our music routing to different rooms but served by a central server/PC (or the like). We quite like the idea of the speakers in the ceilings and have...

Cheers for your responses. I understand what you mean by wanting to be 100% happy before putting your name to a job. If owt goes wrong and you have signed it off, it is your repuatation that is in jeopardy. I think what you suggest about lifting floorboards and chasing our the walls etc...

A quick question to any one who works as a sparky doing house rewires. Would it markedly reduce the cost of the job to the client if they were to run the cable themselves? Are sparkies open to this or in your experience would you not work on a job in this case? Are there part-p...

Hi, we are planning on changing the layout of the rooms in the 2nd floor of our house. The rooms are all currently divided by stud partitions. To save costs so the money can be spent on more important jobs like the central heating and rewiring, I am considering doing the new studwork myself...

Hi, we are in the process of buying a victorian mid terrace and the survey has come back saying that "the triangulation to the roof structure in the rear eaves void is incomplete". They recommend that additional timber struts be installed to connect each alternate rafter to its corresponding...

Hi, We are in the process of buying a large mid Victorian terrace with living accomodation over three floors. It is in a state of disrepair and needs various jobs doing to it. One of these is an overhaul to the plumbing and heating. We plan to have a bathroom and ensuite to the first...

Thanks for the advice everyone. It looks like we've got quite a lot to consider. We had our house valued three years ago and the estate agent said it was at the ceiling price. Not many houses go up for sale on our road or the next one so it is difficult to gauge the actual value. In...

Hi, I live in a 3 bed end terraced. We've got two kids and are thinking of moving, and where we live (Sheffield) everything goes to sealed bids so it is a bit of a palaver buying a house there. But we like our house and the area so we are contemplating extending instead. We are unsure...

Hi, I've seen some posts saying underfloor heating takes a while to heat up. Is this just for electric or water as well? Also, I've read it is not economical to install in an existing property. Why is this? We live in an end terraced (currently with a combi boiler) and are thinking of...

Hi, We had our bathroom refitted about 3 years ago and retiled. There is an internal window sill above the bath. The shower is over the bath so when people shower the water gathers on the window sill. The grout has gone mouldy in places and looks pretty unsightly so i started to rake out...