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Plasterboard sounds like a good idea, especially as I've got a few sheets left over. Can't see how it would be any worse than wood considering that the ceiling that the lights are being recessed into are constructed from plasterboard. I will just have to make sure there is plenty of free air...

Thanks for that, Salem2000 that means I'm okay. I'll get making my boxes!!

Building the wooden boxes sounds cheaper than some of the things I've seen for sale, but how do you know if you have a fire rated ceiling?

Dare I say I got them from a certain catalogue firm :roll:

I should have said that I've already bought the downlights :roll:

Unfortunately mine are in the loft space :cry:

This cropped up in a previous query of mine when I was wondering what the advantages. and disadvantages. where of low/high voltage lighting. The thing of loft insulation and reference was made to constructing boxes to keep the insulation away. I'm beginning to wish I'd stuck with traditional...

Many thanks bab for your advice :)

I thought that if the water got too hot it would vent off the hot water tank into the expansion tank. :? I don't think I've got a zone controller on the tank. I don't know its proper name but its designed to fit on the pipe that comes out of the hot water tank and depending on what it is set...

When you say well insulate them, do you mean the usual foam stuff or there something better? All the rads at the moment have TRV's fitted, I thought they were a good idea (the pump is controlled by a thermostat on the Hot water tank which swithes it on when the water is hot enough)?

Thnks for that. The valves sound like a good idea. I'm fitting a further 4 radiators. Tehy are rated abiut 5000 BTU each and the boiler's max output is 45 000 BTU.

I moved into a house that had a central heating system (an oil converted rayburn and 6 Rads) which just simply did not work. The rayburn could make lots of hot water but could not cope with one rad being on. This was explained to me in this forum some time ago. :shock: Having extended the...

Thanks for the advice Crafty :)

I am getting ready to install the lighting in a 3 bed extension. We have decided to go for downlights but I am not sure whether to go for mains or low voltage. Apart from the obvious, whats the difference between the two? Is one better than the other? Also the ceiling into which they are...

Sorry for the delay, had to go off to work. Underneath, the timber is still fine and it only appears on the bottom face. I was just worried it was the start of something worse. I can take a photo of it but I will have to work out how to post it (please bear with me :roll:

I am quite concerned about the floor joists on the ground floor of my house extension that was built about a year ago (internal work still on-going!!). :oops: The floor is constructed from 6" x 2" timbers supported by 3 dwarf walls (2 running along the exterior walls and 1 in the middle)...

Thanks for the info guys. Gripfill it is then!! :D

What is the best way to install window boards? ie how to fasten them in place. I am completing an extension consisting of concrete block outer wall with a timber constucted inner leaf wall. The windows are uPVC and so do not come with a rebate to accept the 'tongue' of the window board...

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I bought an old(ish) Westwood Gazelle sit-on lawnmower. :D It does a great job but is let down by the fact that the only way it will start is by jump starting it from my car. :( There does not appear to be much to the wiring so I was wondering if anyone out there has a similar model. :roll...