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One of the rooms in my house has a concrete floor - I think it was previously a kitchen and the carpet is held by the normal gripper strip - its nailed to the concrete - the nail depth is around 1"

My preferred way of doing it - if you have the internal space - is to construct it in the same way as an external wall in a timber framed house. Leave a 50mm cavity then erect your timber frame with a breather membrane such as Tyvec, facing into the cavity but attached to the frame (in new...

Not all cheap tools are rubbish, I started a loft conversion in a previous house 8 years ago and bought 2 £20 cordless drills, one to use, the second as a spare but to have an extra battery to swap over while the first is being charged. It was used well with the loft conversion - every rafter...

Always start with the basics first - do you have a spark at the plugs then check that you are getting fuel to the engine.

An extra layer of plasterboard will not really provide any additional insulation, your best bet here is to put insulation between the rafters but you should leave a 50mm gap between the top of the insulation and underside of roof and install ventilation to the roof so air will flow through this...

I would get one with an integral shutter - this opens automatically when you switch the fan on and stops draughts coming in when the fan is off. You can get it wired to come on with the light or on a separate switch and some have adjustable over-run timers so they stay on for a while when you...

Sounds like the fire wall has stopped the through flow of ventilation between you and your neighbours house. To correct this you will need to install some eaves ventilation on both sides to get that through flow back, the recommended amount is a continuous 10mm wide gap for an un-inhabited...

How many radiators/and size of radiators do you have in your house? Reason I ask is that your boiler will have a maximum capacity of water it can heat and if this is exceeded, your water will never get hot enough to heat all the radiators together but turning a few off, reduces the capacity and...

Thanks for the information - its all starting to make a bit more sense now. My Camcorder is a JVC GR-D240 which has a DV out socket which is IEEE1394 standard, I had a look at www.savastore.com and they list a few firewire cards of this standard. Looks like I will need one of these cards, a...

I have a digital video camera (mini DV) and wondered if I could connect this to my PC and transfer the video taken onto DVD. I think my PC spec is ok (P4, plenty space on hard drive etc) but I am not sure if I need a video card - the video camera says you can connect to a PC with a DV connector...