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Don't know but i would order them from the states. I've order lots of items from the states. When you consider the exchange rates it will quite often work out less than half price even including the postage costs. Fishing reel £200+ in blighty £94 delivered from Good ol U S of A Gun...

All depends on whether the roof rafters are designed to take the additional point load from the water tank at their mid span. Was there originally a water tank there, or is there a similar arragement on another of the rafters. If not you might find the lower portion of the rafter will...

In that case you will be able to answer the question, are vaillant boilers the same as glowworm?

Have to disagree with the broad brush reply given by noseall. (sorry) I work in a structural engineering practice and have to design roofs all the time. You can not just make broad brush statements about timber grades without knowing the following points and then carrying out some design...

Not going to use BG as they quoted £85 to run a piece of 32mm plastic pipe through the wall from an upstairs cupboard and down the wall to a gulley and lots of similar extras on top of the £1500 installation cost on top of the boiler costs which were £250 dearer than buying them from a...

Thanks for that. Thinking about it i think he did say Glowworm not baxi, but might have also said that baxi same as worcester??

Hi. I will be updating our old heating system in the not to distant future and have been doing a lot of research into different products, eg rads, boilers, programmers. etc I had kind of made up my mind that i wanted a vaillant eco tec 828 but when we had BG salesman round to give us a...

pullers don't seem to work in this type of situation, trust me i've done a few. Cut a slot in the disc braking face, through both sides of the vented disc. When you crack it the crack will extend right through the part that has become fixed to the hub, thus loosening it making it now...

use an angle grinder with a metal cutting disc or a hacksaw and cut a slot in the disc from the edge towards the centre then place a cold chisel in the slot and hit with a club hammer to crack the disc making it possible to remove. All of the above assumes you are replacing the discs with new...

You must also ensure that the ground level in the house next door is the same as it will be unlikely that the walls have been designed as earth retaining structures. You must not go any lower than 300mm above the underside level of the existing foundations (unless you want to go to the time and...

As a draughtsman in a structural engineering practice i know that we as a company would recommend that the walls be built in at least a solid 215 thick wall a standard cavity wall construction. Either brick and block or 2 leafs of blockwork with the outside rendered. You can build with 1 leaf...

has anybody any experience of using the following products. Shield All stone impregnator http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Natural-Stone-Impregnator-for-Porous-Stone_W0QQitemZ6051913547QQihZ009QQcategoryZ42128QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem and CreArt adhesive...

Hi jason Many thanks for all your advise. I'll let you know how i get on with the job when its completed. one last question before i order materials. Is the 50/50 mix of grouts suitable for use on the floor or would i just use a straight mix of the Superflex wide joint grout.

Jason I'm going to order some bags of Bal single part flexible from trades-direct.co.uk Any idea on the approximate coverage per 20kg bag. i've got approx 21sq.m to tile on the walls and 2.5sq.m on the floor. The rapid set flexible mentioned for use on the floor tiles only comes in...

Jason. Thanks for your response, much appreciated. Couple of small questions.. Quickset under the floor tiles because they're larger and won't dry properly with normal flexible adhesive or to allow the floor to be walked on earlier. or both? You say 50/50 mix of wide joint and...

The PVA adhesive will stop the water in the adhesive from being soaked up by the wood behind thus stopping the tile adhesive from drying. It can't dry out from the front because you've applied waterproof tiles on the outside face. As you are only tiling over a cistern that shouldn't get wet...

Hello to everyone on this forumn. I've been reading a lot of the previous posts and have found them to all be very useful and sometimes quite funny. To get down to buisness. I'm about to tile a bathroom with a stand alone shower cubicle and am planning on going down the following route...