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I have been in touch with my labc today for some information regarding a building warrant and re-wire. There are some internal work to be done in the house as well as the re-wire. I was informed by them that if I undertook the re-wire it is my responsibility to get the electrical work tested not...

Cheers for you quick reply

I am in the process of drawing up plans for house renovation. There is and large downstairs shower room which I would like as a downstairs toilet come utility room. I am just wondering if it is possible to have the tumble dryer and washing machine in this room. This would be about a 1 1/2 M gap...

I have been trying to contact the building standards department at my local council for some time, phone call never gets answered and the e-mail address does not work. I am trying to find out some information on what work on my house needs a building warrant. 1. There is a little store room...

I am looking for some electrical work to be done, New consumer unit, kitchen ring main, house wiring testing. Can anyone recommend a good electrician in moray. Cheers Russ

Cheers for you reply, would it be possible instead of stripping the walls to score the paper quite heavily, then pva then skim?

Many thanks for the replies, When the new kitchen goes in will be an electric oven/hob so gonna get a corgi guy in to disconnect and cap off the pipe. Looked at the instructions for the boiler and needs the vents there, cheers for all your help. Russ

Just a couple of quick questions, 1. My combi boiler is in a cupboard upstairs, the door to the cupboard has to vents in, which i guess are for the boiler. Would it be possible to pub a vent in from the outside and replace the door? 2. I am starting to strip out my kitchen, the gas hob...

I have started stripping the wall paper in my bedroom to find the plaster board has been papered straight onto. The house was build in the late 50's, was this standard practise back then to put up plaster board, fill the gaps then paper over the top. When the wall paper is stripped would it be...

Thought it would of been a case of swapping new for old so will go down the electrician route, cheers

1st of all let me start of by saying thanks, been reading this forum for sometime now and finding it very helpful. I currently have a fuse box which looks very old and worn, so looking at replacing it with a consumer unit. Between the meter and fuse box is a switch, so can turn power off before...

So feed the mains water to the kitchen sink, boiler and water tank, take all the other cold supplies from the tank?

Yeah it is a bug bear for me. With having two kids at bath time the dishwasher is on, go to run them a bath and it takes and age. When i get up for work I have to run a bath, as i dont have a shower, flush the WC bath stops filling, turn the cold tap on to clean my teeth bath stops filling. Russ

I have just moved and having a few problems with hot water. I have a combi boiler and when the cold tap is turned on the flow from the hot tap is minimal. The same happens to the hot if the washing machine is on(only cold feed) or toilet is filling. So would it be possible to have a storage tank...