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Hi Helen, BOSS is the trade name for PTS - just in case you need spares - this should be your first stop. Cheers Lawrenso

As a follow up - it is actually Water Regulations - 1999 - now to decide what to do about it?? Cheers Steve

Hi, I have just seen that it is against building regs to bury pipework in screed without it being removable and all joints should be accessible. I know that in our 4 year old house that we have poly pipe buried in the screed on the ground floor for both hot and cold and there must be a...

whoops - it was late - please forgive me :lol:

Dont PVA the walls- this forms a barrier and the tiles will only bond to that, not to the plaster/substrate. BAL do a sealer that is available from Topps Tiles specifically for this. I found this out when I removed tiles in our kitchen and came off very easy. I thought it was down to our...

Thanks for that, a good idea to have it seperate, I never thought of that. I have found this in my search, has anybody any exerience with it?? http://www.securitymarketing.co.uk/roboguard_features.html Cheers Steve

Thanks for the response breezer, perhaps I should clarify, we live up a unadopted lane - no street lights etc.. and I would be willing to pay for the right stuff within reason (ie the outside detection). For running cables, all our walls downstaires a wet plastered brick and block, and was...

Hi All, Our builder installed a wired alarm system (the box is marked SL?). It consists of 6 hard wired PIR's and a bell box. However, my work takes me away a lot and my wife wishes for the system to be upgraded to give the following. 1. External Monitoring for up the sides and around the...

Hi Steve, did you have any joy with this, we are having the same issue, with our shower actually going stone cold tonight. My wife stopped the water and got out, I reset the boiler and then there was hot water... Cheers Steve

I am actually replacing the handrail - do you think I should be able to drill right through this tenon? ie - it is just a dowel holding it in?? Cheers Steve

Thanks Noseall, I think I get what you are on about, but not sure it applies here. Here is the image http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/album_photo.html?c_photo=1420518889 Thanks JohnD I wonder if it is nothing more than a dowel, as each end of the handrail is not pulled tight at all, so...

Hi, After an accident, we need to replace the handrail, some spindles and the base bit to take the spindles. I have no issues with doing the work - quite the opposit, however, I am a little bit stumped as to how the handrail is attached to the newels. attached is a JPG diagram showing the...

My other posts have been on this matter. The reason we have had the kitchen replaced is that we have had to have the floor in the kitchen ripped out to be re-levelled due to shoddy work done by the builder - the house is only 3 years old - we had a floor that dropped 2 inches over the space of 4...

Hi Softus, thankyou for your apology as although I don't find your non-constructive comments insulting they smack a bit of thread spoiling. I did come to these forums to seek advice from people in the know - I thought that this was one of the purposes of them. Perhaps I should change my...

well - received his invoice - 50 hours at his hourly rate. This is for the removing of a stud wall and the replacement of it with a stud wall with a pocket door insert. and putting in the units listed above with a bit of plumbing. To be honest, I think that I am going to have to quote the supply...

hourly rate - we have a neighbour up the road who has built 2 houses, and it was his project manager who put us in touch with him - highly recommended. We had this guy round on Saturday morning about our concerns with the quality and speed of work but he said we were being picky. When we had...

We did trust him - but his level of work has shown he is not up to the job. I can do better but unfortunately I have a full time job to do. I am just about to phone the kitchen company to get a price and order new pelmets of which I will end up replacing. On Saturday he only had a couple of...

Hi Guys - seeking a bit of advice here about the times it should take to fit the kitchen in the links below http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/6327682 it consists of a kitchen with 400mm floor 800 mm pan drawer 600mm cooker 500 mm drawers corner carousel unit 1000mm base 600mm...

Thanks for the replies - Thanks to JasonB for giving me those pointers to the BS's, and to Moz for trying to keep my feet on the floor. The builder is a small local builder - not a large national builder. Luckily he has done everything in his name so if it comes to it it will be off to court...