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In a kitchen we currently have a frigefreezer running off an unswitched socket, with one of those multi appliance grid switches on the other side of the room which turns the power to the socket on/off. We want to install a dishwasher next to the fridge, but it will need power, there are no other...

Hi, We're currently looking at buying a timber frame house (one of the mass produced Persimmon type homes built approx 10 years ago) - I'm presuming it's timber frame (ie sip panel) construction as that seems to be the way the big builders have worked for the last 10 years. Currently there is a...

So, a bit of background: I own a 1904 cottage with solid stone wall (about 500mm thick). It has french doors from the original building at the rear which would have lead outside, unitl a (really awful) conservatory was built in the 1980s, I believe these doors were originally a window which...

Thanks - I realise that about the air in the system.... but we're undergoing a house renovation so have had to drain the system down a few times, and everytime we refill we get an airlock in the boiler itself as the AAV has seized - the last time we had to crack the existing AAV which thankfully...

Had a similar issue, existing pipe was 2 inches underground, I wanted to replace pipe and move mains inlet, water board said needed to go under the house by 2ft and come up through the floor (where I was bringing it in we have 1000mm deep re-enforced concrete raft, quite how I was going to come...

The AAV on my Grant Combi is blocked - so I keep getting air in the system, then it over heats. I've got a replacement AAV, presumably the old one just unscrews and new one screws in (once the system is drained obviously)? Does it need any kind of seal on the thread, or are the washers on the...

Over the last few weeks we've noticed the pressure in our boiler has been rising and the pressure release valve has been dripping. Its been getting worse : I drained off a bowl of water at the weekend and the pressure was down at 1.5 bar. By the evening it was at 1.8 and back to 3 bar by the...

Just wanted to follow up on this.... the solution (I hope!) was to screw some plasterboard offcuts to the frame, scrim tape those onto the plastered wall then skim the whole lot... looks ok..

We have just had a large hole cut in our wall between two rooms to take some glass blocks (one is the hallway which has no windows so we want to get light in). The wall is/was concrete blockwork with a scratch and skim coat. Everything I've read about glass blocks suggest that we use lintel...

We're in the process of building an extension - I'm doing some parts myself but getting in trades to do the parts I don't have the skill or knowledge to undertake (which so far seems like quite a lot!). The roofers came and batten and membraned the roof last week and installed several roof...