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In another post on this forum I mentioned that I would be soon taking down the very aged hardboard ceiling in our cellar which is nailed directly onto the floor joists of the room above. The void between ceiling skin and floorboards above has no insualtion or sound deadening material at all. As...

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As adding to the bottom of each joist will ultimately reduce standing height in the cellar and I barely have enough at the moment then it looks like I will have to approach this from a cut and reconnect cable.

So would the preffered solution be to cut each cable and then reconnect with the cable being run through a hole in the middle of the joist. Also not sure relevant but the floor joists are original in a house built in 1902.

Afternoon All Am looking to tidy the cellar and this will include taking down the current ceiling which is only hardboard nailed onto the floor joists of the room above. As a recent extension was added, the electrician simply ran the cables over the surface of the ceiling covering and cable...

Directional?? As in the water only flows one way?? That's fairly advanced.

Any issues with using 22mm cooper into the rad as the heavier look would be more authentic considering I remember the old car iron pipes being more chunky.

Brilliant, thanks for a great reply. As we are looking for a more traditional install to retain the original look of the rad then to the top is fine with us. Thanks again

I am supplying valves and bushes/adapters cause we want a particular style and that impacts on side available. If we plumb to the to of the rad then we can choose different valves.

Could make it look better aesthetically with some copper pipe rather than the plastic convenience however is there an advantage to bringing the hot water at the top?

Greetings All Picked up two rads today (not the one in the photo - not that good yet) and prior to pressure testing I have been looking at materials and means of getting someone to plumb them in. One thing that has been obvious is that the old rads have four equal inlets and outlets; I have...

Thanks Opps, some things to consider there. Am taking onboard what was mentioned previously about filling with water and then putting some air pressure in afterwards with a foot pump. The rads are fairly short, less than a meter long on both instances. Cheers.

Have decided to take the large coil of blue pipe that is sitting in the cellar and feed it through to the cold space under the front room floor and leave it coiled there instead. Wrapped in heavy plastic it can sit there rather than taking up space in an area I want to use. Thanks to those who...

As this is a terrace house then it has to go through the house, at the external points (front and back) then it will be dug into a trench however for the run under the room at the front and also into the cellar it can't be trenched.

Greetings and Salutations Approx three years ago we had an extension built and the builder at the time put in situ pipework for a replacement water main. This went through to our cellar where the remainder has sat there coiled waiting for something to happen. The builder didn't come back to...

Greetings and Salutations Have got two victorian cast iron radiators which I am restoring and have had them shotblasted back to the bar metal however I am struggling to find suitable products to prime and paint them other than your simple rattle can. Ideally I would like to spray using the...

Thanks for the advice

No chance of breaking any tiles cause they will all be lifted before any work to remove the skirting begins Yes we can once the floor has been levelled. Nope, from last experience they are held on by wooden pegs that are fixed back into the brick work so by removing the skirting it damages as...

Aside from the above pressure testing then I presume everything else is about getting a suitable thermostatic valve on one side and an open/shut on the other?? Oh and a bleed valve on one of the top points?? When stripping the paint off is just ordinary paint stripper products is sufficient?

Ahh I like it, will definitely be doing that :)