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Cheers matt - youre a legend. Have laid the 900 - great fun! will wait 24 hrs (or do I need more time since I laid approx 6mm thick?) before applying dpm. Got alot of pinholes in the 900 - presumably these will just be filled with the dpm liquid as I apply it? My fault for not getting a...

Cheers, will phone a plumber tomorrow.

Hey - thans, you mean on the inside of the plastic control panel? THere is a bar code printed on the side of the left panel too. Once I know the GC number, how do I work out if its the 23 or 28kw version? I suspect its the 23 as the bloke who owned the house before me was a tight *******.

Ive just discovered that my boiler, which is supplied by a separate circuit, seems to have two circuit breakers on the consumer unit - is there a reason why this would have been done? I cant work it out myself. One is a standard circuit breaker, the other is an RCD one (if thats what you call...

Im doing my kitchen at the moment, and the cooker is going to be moving about 20cm to the left, away from the existing bayonet fitting for the gas. This will mean the gas pipe in its current location will be within a new base cabinet. Do I need to have the gas pipe moved, or can I just leave...

got the ends, as they were headed into sockets which have now been removed, it is standard 13a ring main for kitchen sockets. Just needed to work out which way round my kitchen one of the sockets was wired (ie the short way or the long way!) as its on the other side of the room from the other...

Thanks for the advice - decided on angle grinder to make initial edges of the chase, plus drill/ hammer/ chisel, seems to be working ok so far - bit messy mind. The sparkys not doing it cos I am on an ultrastrict budget, plus im pretty confident I know where the chases need to be so should be...

Title says it all really - whats the name of the tool I need etc etc? Cheers

Ive got an elecrician coming on Monday, and I need to cut chases in my kitchen wall before he arrives - Ive started off with an angle grinder, and then using a cold chisel to knock plaster out. Is this the best way of doing it? Its taking bloody ages! Also - when I knock out the plaster for...

BTW - is it pretty common practise to leave the wall foundations in place ina modification such as this? I'd have thought it was more sensible to remove it completely, if its not offering any lateral support. THe guys who did these modifications were (to my knowledge) total idiots btw.

Thanks for the info - 99% sure there is an RSJ, its in a bloody big box running across the ceiling. Pretty sure there is no insulation in the new bit of floor, but its only about 2 sq metres, and the rest of the room has the original concrete floor which is about 100 years old. THe floor...

Hi, My kitchen previously had a load bearing wall across one end of it, which separated the old kitchen from the outside toilet/ coal hole. This was removed about 7 years ago by the previoys owner. Whilst ripping out the old floor in there the last few days, I have noticed that there is a...

Thanks - This may sound like an incredibly thick question, but when mixing the compound, I should mix all 3 bottles of 900 liquid with all 3 bags of 900 powder at the same time right? And then shoull I just pour the whole lot onto the floor in one go before troweling? Thanks

Thanks for your advice Matt Got all my materials now for this job and just about ready to get on with it - but after removing all old floor tiles Im beginning to suspect that the floor has a slight slope to it. This isnt something Id anticipated. I bought two bags of Stopgap 900 for the...

thank you for that enlightening response! I suppose I should have asked the question: "How do I tell if my boiler is the 23 or 28kw version" I cant see any indication of which it is. What is the GC number?

I need to put in a garden tap, for which I need to run a standard piece of 21mm copper piping through one exterior wall (about 15cm thick - do I need to get a core drill or is there some kind of heavy duty long masonry drill bit I could use?? Thanks

Ive got an Ariston Microgenus combi boiler for which I need to buy a new secondary heat exchanger - I have two part numbers, one which corresponds to the 23kW version and one for the 28kW version apparently - problem is I cant work out which one I need. Any ideas?? Thanks

Cheers, I'll give them a ring on Monday. How about using a diamond cup disc on an angle grinder to get rid of the crap? Its fairly loose in places anyway, and its only an area of about 4 square metres.

Sorry for the multiple posts to my own question. Shot blasting machines appear to cost a fortune to hire and are bloody huge to boot.....any alternatives - aside from alot of manual labour that is?

Just read somewhere else that doing this would not be a good idea. However, comments on my alternative would be welcomed: I have an RSJ running the width of my kitchen from the extrnal wall to a party wall. The cooker hood will be installed on the party wall, so a duct needs to get from...