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Decided to make the house our home.

Thanks Chris, I'm liking he sound of those 3W led's. I'll get all the wiring checked out and have a good read of Part P.

I'm at work at the moment so can’t get any photo's The fuse box itself is a failrly new one, 3 years old. It's the trip type rather than the wire type. It's split into different sections, for 16amp lights ground floor and 16amp lights 1st floor, then you have the kitchen appliances on...

I need to fit a bunch of flush mounted spots in my kitchen. I'll be stripping the wire all the way back as the wire is very old and brittle. I can wire up notmal lights but never really played around with spots. I'm looking at about 12 - 14 spots in total. Any advice on the sort of...

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm going to be painting the house later this week if it's not raining. So I'll be making good the wiring.

Very nice, I'll be watching this thread with great interest.

Looks great !. Any reason you didn't extend the front 2nd story as well ?

Very impressive indeed. Any tips you can give me as I'm going to have to fit some worktops once my extension gets finished. When you say male cut, what sort of cuts are you doing for the work surface. If I'm honest I haven’t got a clue where to start with fitting worktops, but I'm one of...

Did you get the call ?

I have to say that I was not impressed with the mess that the sky installers made when they installed Sky TV. Is it common practice in a situation where you have the dish at the back of the house but the 2 sky plus boxes in the rooms at the front of the house to throw the cables over the roof...

Really ?. As I said the existing structure is already there. Brickwork for a lintel needs to be done to support it, but this is only 300mm of brickwork one side and 700mm of brickwork the other side. Lintel then goes up. Wall support at sorrect height goes up. Beams are put in place...

ok so under £2k is looking promising at the moment then :). I'll get a few more quotes first.

I have an extension of 5800mm x 2800mm. It's currently seperate from the house and by this I mean the floor level drops about a foot. I want to raise the floor up to make it flow through with the house but this means I will need to raise the old roof up. I intend to get rid of the roof and...

You know what, I've been thinking about some floating shelves for some time but never even though about the framework then sheet wood. I was always thinking of thick wood and some sort of long bolt to achieve the same effect. Very good job mate.

Depending on your carpentry skills you could either make a cabinet or buy one slightly bigger and cut it down. If you want a fitted cabinet then there would be no need to keep the skirting boards inside the alcove.

Had a similar problem when puttin gup my curtain rail after I had new windows fitted. The plaster work just kept crumbling and the brick behind it had been removed packed out with more plaster. I bought some rad repair from Wickes, sets like metal in 3 minutes. Filled the area pushed the raw...

I don't suppose he get's an "A" for errort then ? Poor guy, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when he showed the finished project to your sister in law :)