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Not sure if this is the right place to post this.... Im going to install a cooker hood in my kitchen, in a spot virtually directly under an old chimney breast in the room above. Is it possible for me to pass the ducting up into the old chimney and vent it that way (about 5 to 6m vertical...

Should have said - I wont be installing the UF heating straight away, I will leave the self levelling compound a good few weeks to dry out properly before installing it. Surely heating is only likely to cause problems with very 'young' floors, as the continuous expansion/ contraction and...

Great advice - thanks guys, They are definitely coming off as Im refurbing my kitchen in a few weeks anyway so will be doing some plastering. Think I'll use the caulking to seal Cheers

Thanks for that - I had a look at that post before. Guess I just wanted a bit of reassurance! Will look into hiring a shot blaster.

What does anyone think of my plan? Im on tenter-hooks! :)

Hey, thanks for the reply woody. I think we are talking about the same things. They are like plastic strips which cover the sides, top and bottom (forming the window sill) of the wall opening, on the internal side of the window. To be honest, I'd happily pull them off and plaster the inside...

My house has uPVC windows, and in the kitchen the window frame (the plastic box set into the wall) has come away from the wall on two sides, on the inside of the window only fortunately. I think I know why this happened (struck by an over excited washing machine repeatedly some time ago) -...

Hi, I guess this a question for Matty really - you gave me some advice a while ago about wooden flooring over a (potentially!) damp concrete floor with no DPM. Anyway, I have now decided against wood, and am planning to tile the floor with underfloor heating. Currently, the floor has...

Hi, I just read this post - and was wondering which option you went for in the end? Your situation sounds like it was very similar to my curent one! Thanks

Hi, Im planning on tiling my kitchen floor, but am in need of some advice on floor preparation etc. Im planning to use some sort of natural stone tile, and also am planning to install electric underfloor heating. At the moment the floor is laid with crappy ceramic tiles, which are cracked...

If the wall is currently stripped of paper/ paint etc. You could always use a bit of fiishing plaster and skim down to the top of the skirting starting about 20-30cm above the top of it, building the plaster up thicker near the sirting top. THats whay I did on my very lumpy lounge wall.

Hey - Thanks for the replies guys, thought I wasnt going to get any for a while there! How would you say they compare with the IKEA faktum kitchens? The fact I can only order 8 minimum is a bit of a bummer as I was hoping to order most of the units from IKEA and then use a screwfix...

Hey everyone. I am thinkng of laying quarry tiles in my kitchen which has a solid concrete floor. THe floor is quite old and has not got a DPM, so possibly some slight issues with moisture. At the moment I have horrible ceramic tiles very badly laid over a crappy bituminous liquid DPM which...

THanks - how about inhibiting/ anti scale solutions which have acid compounds in them - eg the No Nonsense anti boiler noise stuff? Surely thats pretty weak acid isnt it? Ive got some of their anti noise and inhibitor in at the moment and the pH of the CH water is alkali rather than neutral.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Last night I flushed it out (not with powerflush) 5 times and water was still brown after that, with suspended chunks of iron oxide. Decided not worth flushing that way again for now - so just chucked in inhibitor and some descaling treatment for now. My...

sorry - being a bit thick - does 'doing it FOC' mean they should be doing it for free?

Well.....they've been out about 5 times now, first of all replaced pump, then diverter valve, and at time said heat exchanger had some muck in it, but that they had got some/ most of it out. THey then had to come back as a something was leaking, and water temp was nowhere near high enough. At...

An ariston microgenus - piece of crap I know but a new one is out of the question!

My boiler is playing up, and the root cause of the problem seems to be the secondary heat exchanger being full of gunk. British gas home care wont cover it as its a corrosion/ scale problem... In the service manual, it looks pretty easy to remove and repalce - so just wanted to check that...

Im soon going to be renovating my kitchen, installing the units myself etc. I was wondering if anyone had tried the range of kitchen units and doors etc that screwfix sells? Theyre ridiculously cheap, and I suspect probably made in such a way as to reflect this - but thought Id ask. Cheers...