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Would it be pointless to keep the header tank just for the shower such that there would be a guarranteed pressurised cold water feed? Our main concern in all of this is that our shower works superb at present - probably also because we have a pump between it and the cylinder (which I presume a...

I was planning on doing an ad hoc loft conversion for simple storage and so forth. Then last night I saw a neighbour's house and changed my mind. She paid around £6K for a professional conversion with joist strengthening, window, staircase, plumbing and electrics, etc. A very slick job...

We pay £1 a month for caller ID and it works just fine. We do this because we get around 3-4 withheld numbers calling us every day. I have a number of strategies that I use depending on my mood. 1) Just ignore the call. 2) Pick up the phone and then put it straight down again. This...

No, the shower has a brass panel with two large brass knobs.

We have a traditional Ideal Mexico boiler and we are considering updating the heating system and replacing with a combi. The advantages, apart from efficiency, are that we would lose the cylinder & header tank and also move the boiler from being in a kitchen cupboard to the spare wall in the...

Huddersfield - near Junction 23.

I just checked again. The ceiling joists are 2"x4" and they do not run the entire length of the house as I previously thought. Intead they run to about the centre of the house (about 3 foot over the second bedroom). At this point they run side by side, parallel with the same kind of joist...

We're in West Yorkshire. We're really, just looking for a "quick-fix" solution to make sure it is safe and secure. The last thing we want is to have to rebuild the ceilings or start removing roof parts to get new joists in, etc. Tonight I'll have a look at the ceiling joists to check the...

I think you're right pieman, I've spoken to quite a few people at work at the general agreement is that the supports are just ceiling hangers designed to stop the bedroom ceilings from sagging. One person has suggested that the ceiling joists might be strengthed using (as he put it)...

I was actually considering the idea of replacing the supports one by one and where possible having the bottom of the support actually resting on the ceiling joist, rather than going right past it and being simply "nailed on" as it does now. In this fashion, I could then saw half an inch off...

They show the way in which the supports are simply nailed to the sides of the beams, both in the floor of the loft and also in the celing of the loft. On the last picture (the floor of the loft), you can see the back of the plasterboard where the support almost touches. I guess the main...

There are actually more of the supports that I had thought. I have posted some pics. They are about 1-inch square but some are missing.

We recently moved into a 1966 semi and just started looking at the loft with a view to using it for light storage (after I have chipboarded the floor). However, we have about 8 vertical trusses spanning between the floor joists and the roof. The thing is that they are very haphazardly placed...