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I have looked at the lafarge site and there are a few good tips. with regards the order which i intend to do things ie. vapour barrier and then stud frame then insulation then plasterboard. Is this order correct. Also - Do i attach the vapour barrier direct to the inside of the external wall...

Finally about to convert my single skinned utility room to be part of my kitchen and remove the doors and frames which currently divif=de the two rooms. Here are my plans and questions if someone can give me a few pointers it would be appreciated. 1. line the walls with a PVC membrane. 2...

The wall appears to be fairly watertight. The outside of it is pebble dashed and probably has 1" of plaster that the pebbles are set in to. here is also a damp proof course which is bonus. The inside wall also has a fairly heavy scratch coat on the wall so i would like to think that before...

So far in my life i have been a mechanical design engineer, A sign manufacturer/installer, a trained painter & decorator, A computer programmer and have managed to be successful at them all. I get very bored very easily and love new things, I am sure with a bit of hard work and some...

I am interested in becomming a plumber but can not afford to give up my day job and work as an apprentice. I had thought about doing the OFT 101 course in order to allow me to start working on my own in this field and slowly increase my skills as i go along. Ideally doing an NVQ part time...

I have a utility room that was built on the back of the kitchen at the same time the house was built. The only problem is is that it looks like the builders where lazy or else had a shortage of materials and only used single skin and did not bother to frame the inside and add any insulation. The...

I have acquired a new french door frame and set of doors which i am hoping to use to replace my old rotting ones. The old ones are wood and the new ones are double glazed Upvc. The width of the frames are identical but the height of the new doors and frame are 2 inches less than the original...

I got up this morning and turned the heating on and the boiler did not ignite. I checked to make sure that the photocell was working and that the boiler was sparking OK and it was. I bled the pump to make sure there was a steady oil flow and there was. The only thing that i can think of...

what do you mean which way are ye facin? when you say line and insulate what do you mean by line? also what would be the best material to insulate with? Thanks.

I currently have a utility room which is accessible from a door in the kitchen. The room is almost like an extension to the building although it was built at the same time as the house. My problem at the minute is that i wish to remove the oil fired boiler from the utility room and move it...

finally got the time to do this. I thought that most oil tanks took a standard 1 1/12" to 1/2 " reducer from the oil tank and then a 1/2 " elbow and on to that attach the gate valve and any other sundries such as a gauge and a filter. When i went to do this i found that the reducer and the...

My original shower was 9.5 Kw running on 30Amp fuse via 6mm sq cable. The shower is being replaced with a new 9.5 Kw one and i have a few questions. Should the cable be 10 mm sq rather than 6mm sq? Also I know that the fuse rating should be 45Amp rather than 30Amp so how do i go about...

All i am doing is is installing a new tank as the old one is too big and in the middle of our garden. I have the new one on a solid level fireproof surface and it is the correct distance from windws walls and boundaries. So in a sense it is just like i have picked up the original one and moved...

I am about to hook up a new oil tank to my boiler and just want someone to say if i am going about things the right way. Gate valve connected directly to the oil tank using ptfe around threaded connection. Guage connected directly to the gate valve using ptfe around threaded connection...

its the 9.5Kw one in white only i paid a fair bit more for mine than that. You should have blanked out the prices. You know how to make someone feel good on a monday morning.

looking at the manula and it doesn't have a pump. Its a new team 9.5Kw electric shower. It doesnt seem to have any more model information than that.

All the switches are in the correct position. The current state of plat at the minute is that no water comes out at all no matter what power setting you have set. You can here a noise from the unit which increases and decreases, when the power switch is turned to a higher setting you can see a...

My electric shower is 6 months old and last week the PRD went on it. I got a replacement part and installed it. When I turned the shower on at the isolation switch water automatically came out of the hose even though the power switch on the shower unit was turned off. A few hours later i...

Should the fire valve be connected directly before the pipe enters the building? Also do most systms have pipe buried under - is it an appearance thing more than anything? In my set up as soon as the pipe has come from th pump and passed through the fire valve and isolation valve it goes...

Thanks doitall for your help and info. Is it OK to fit the fire valve underground? Also if I am not removing the existing pipe from the boiler but just extending it is it not then ok to keep the existing fire valve where it is? Also do you have any knowledge of Suntec pumps and bleeding...