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Hi Guys. Just discovered that the house I've just bought has a 9" solid wall extension at the back. From what I can guess, it must have been a coal shed/outside loo/store at some point, attached to the back of the house, and the previous owners have knocked through to make a kitchen. It the...

That's quite expensive :shock: I've had quotes for floor sander and edge sander for 30+VAT per day. Although, not much good if it won't do the parquet :roll:

Sorry to butt in, but I'll be doing this myself soon. I need to sand my floorboards, and was planning on using a floorsander, with an edging sander to get right to the skirtings. Are you saying that I can't use the floorsander to do the parquet? Cheers Dave

Thanks masona. I'm guessing I'll have to cut some of the pipe away, as there's not alot of room there! Can you get plastic elbows/pipe to attache to cast iron? I know they come in different sizes! Thanks again.

These are the images of the downpipe and gully. Closeup of downpipe and some damage to render. They tried to ease it with a piece of lead by the look of it. I've removed the images! Any ideas of the best way to tackle this? The pipe is all rusted at the back where they haven't painted...

no sure its splashback as such. I'll try and take a picture later, but basically a concrete gully has been build running down to the front wall. The downpipe runs down the all into this gully. I don't think the water actually runs down the gully, it just sits there and it above the DPC.

Hi I have a cast iron downpipe on the outside of my house, which doesn't have a shoe on the end. It stops a couple of inches above a raised concrete gully. I've only just bought the house, and noticed some damp in the corner internally, which I think is being caused by water sitting in the...

Not sure I understand what you mean here? Are you saying that I can still get the full cert? :oops:

Cheers for advice :wink: to be honest, I wasn't looking at it to save money, it was purely on recommendation from the builder that will be doing other stuff around the house. Think I'll get a corgi guy in!!

Thanks for the replies guys. Think I'll get a corgi in to do the gas stuff. Would a corgi guy usually be able/prepared to do the wet plumbing stuff as well, or is it generally accepted to get a plumber for the water and corgi for the gas?

I've had a recommendation of a plumber from my builder. He says the guy is very good and can install a combi boiler/pipes/change plumbing etc, but is not Corgi registered. I know I will need a gas safety cert. He says he can get the cert by using another plumbing firm he uses to inspect the...

Thanks for the advice, I've arranged for a SE to visit the property and do the necessary. Guy is charging me £200+VAT inc drawings etc, so seems reasonable.

Do I need structural engineer calcs for this? Builder I know reckons I don't, as he can get a lintel that's guaranteed up to a certain weight? I thought I'd need building regs, and as a result structural calcs? Cheers Dave

Had another thought. Have you got MAC address filtering switched on at the router? If you have, have you registered the MAC address of the wireless card registered?

when you go to control panel, network connections, right click on wireless network connection and choose properties, double click TCP/IP, does it say obtain IP address automatically? Strange that if it is set for DHCP, it's not getting an address. Usually an unallocated IP address would...

The autoconfiguration disabled is due to the fact that you're not using a DHCP IP address. What IP address does your laptop have, and what IP address does your wired deskop have? Can you post an IPCONFIG for each of them?

Is this the type of thing you wanted? Be aware that as you extend the cable the signal tends to degrade![/url]

There is an element of cross-over with the channels, the only safe ones to use with no crossover are 1, 6 and 11. These don't overlap. Failing that, have you tried updating the network card drivers? I notice further back that you've disabled the software for the wireless card, and are now...

When you had the connected status, could you ping/access the router from the laptop? What channel have you got the router transmitting on? Reason I ask is that I have a Linksys WAP that won't work with my laptop on channel 1.

Do you use your laptop on any other wireless connections? If not, why not just disable DHCP on the router and assign a static IP address to the laptop?