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ooh more replies whilst I wasn't looking jstallan, I would ask for the name of your guy, but I guess he will up his quote now, based on his experience with your shelter :lol: hiring this kit will cost me about £640 8 yard skip (2 weeks).....200 concrete ringsaw (1wk)...250 (...

so if it's not a proper full-on bomb shelter, how will that affect taking it down? The bottom line is, I'm reluctant to part with 2 grand just for the sake of having someone else do the hard graft to take this structure down. On that basis I will happily do it myself... ...but if there's...

ah, Fred Dibnah of blessed memory. I would happily have given him £3,000 to take it down. Bet he would have left the house standing too. edit: my calcs show it would be 2 1/4 cubic metres of concrete and 3.5 cubic metres of brick assuming single thickness down one side and double down the...

sorry I should have given a bit of narrative. that is a shot of the outside of the shelter, from the garden side, looking in. What you see is a lean-to between the side of the house and the shelter, the covering is made from corrugated plastic. I guess the flash and the dark makes the plastic...

did people actually shelter in it during the Blitz - I can't answer that one. All I can tell you is that the previous owner (who moved in in the early 70s) said that was what it was used for. :?: is it constructed like you would expect a bomb shelter to be constructed - maybe not, by the...

Hi JohnD from looking, I cannot tell / don't know where to look I can see the top of the roof from the landing window - it looks like a sort of rough screed (repaired with tar in one corner). From the inside, it is smooth - plastered? Would the steel shuttering be under the plaster? I...

would be nice if it was, as then it might come down in a more 'controlled' way rather than the roof just crashing off the walls. But I'm not sure it was built that way. On the side adjoining the house, I can only see one run of bricks that the roof is sitting on, unless the roof has somehow...

Thanks Deluks Safe (independent) working platform - the only place for this would be at the back of the shelter, so I would then have to go underneath the structure and through the garage to take the rubble to the skip at the front. Or I could store the rubble at the back of the house till...

Firstly, just to say that I really appreciate all the help and input I get from the participants on these forums - a knowledgeable and friendly crowd if ever there was one. I have an air raid shelter built at the side of my house. It is solid but in a poor state, and needs to come down...

may be a bit of a late reply, but The GIMP will certainly be able to do this - it's open source (free). And probably has a batch function too. What format did you use to save your scans? Remember that if you re-save .jpeg files multiple times, you will get some degradation in quality as...

pretty much like that, yes. OK, I will rest easy. Many thanks

thanks Static roofer said old tile was 6" x 10" single camber clay tile new concrete are interlocking.

I am having my hip & valley pitched roof re-covered with concrete tiles (Marley Eternit 'Ashmore'). Old covering was clay tiles. The roofer is not proposing to put in any new collars or struts to support the weight of the new tiles. He says that there is actually less weight on the roof...

ha ha - just need to get it to play the tune whenever the boiler kicks in now 'da daddle-ah, da da da dum dee dee dum dee dum'. Think the previous owner retro-fitted that light.

Cheers Onetap I've attached a pic of our programmer - no CH without HW. Perhaps i still have a semi-gravity system? It may have been updated since, not sure. Anyway, I will be up in the loft this weekend poking around the tanks whilst the missus changes the programmer from HW to...

Thanks for that. I have 2 tanks up in the loft - Feed & Expansion is the smaller one, right (other one feeds the HW cylinder)? Never checked for pumping over - do I just spend a few minutes looking at the F&E overflow pipe when the heating is on to see if a lot of hot water is coming out...

Recently moved in to a property with an open vented system, that has not been serviced for at least 5 years. Boiler is a potterton Kingfisher 2. Some of the rads are a bit rusty, and when the pump kicks in there are blubble sounds. One rad downstairs is 2/3 cold, 1/3 hot. I am thinking gas...

I had an Ideal HE Excel C24 combi boiler in my previous (rental) property it was a freaking nightmare. we kept getting the 'overheat' error (code 2). when the boiler was actually working, the CH thermostat would tell the boiler to kick in and... nothing. Woke up freezing so many nights...