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Hi We moved into our house in April last year, the house had an extension when we moved in and plans for a loft conversion. Having looked through all the paperwork that came with the plans, we find that there is no completion certificate for the extension. The council did a 'summary...

Well, quite a big difference! We've not had anyone out as yet, but there are bits and pieces we'd prefer to do ourselves. The difficulty with that is, which bit to get done first! Presumably the plumbing and electrics, followed by walls/velux windows etc... I'm always concerned when we...

Thanks for all your tips! Sorry for mentioning my quote was unaware this wasn't allowed although it was more advice on how to spot a dodgy tradesman that I was after. Link is great and I'm sure that'll help a lot. We have 2 more people coming out, both of whom have done other people's drives...

HI We got a price to get the drive monoblocked and our garden (which is a mess ) done. We were quite shocked by the quote, £1900 for the drive, you could only get one car in it. £2500 for the garden. We had hoped that it would be around £3000 for the lot. This quote was from a...

Thanks for all the tips.....bit of a minefield isn't it! Will bear all your suggestions in mind if we proceed with this, still trying to calclulate that we can actually afford it! It'd give us a big bedroom and ensiute so it's very tempting!!!

Thanks for all the tips! Just one more question, the plans we have include 4 velux windows, 2 at the front and 2 at the rear. Someone further up the street has 2 dormer windows and 2 velux windows...we'd prefer that, but believe that dormer windows are very expensive. Would we have to get...

Plans are 3 years old so we should be okay....sorry to be a numpty, but whats BCO? Thanks!

Can I also suggest, over and above Search and Destroy, Adaware and Hijack This which are IMO essential for getting rid of Spyware a really good wee utility called Crap Cleaner, can be downloaded from www.ccleaner.com Cleans your temporary internet files and registry (getting rid of the...

Hi When we moved into our house, there were plans for a loft conversion. We now find that we're quite keen on the idea. Thing is, you hear so many horror stories about dodgy tradesmen! We wondered how it works, if we get people in to give us a price, is it likely to escalate? Is there a...

Thanks for all the help and tips, we'll investigate it over the weekend....hopefully I won't need to post again about this, but Allan doesn't think any of the TRVs are the wrong way round!!

Don't know about the bypass thing, Allan is at work right now, will ask him when he gets in....and will get him to read the link...no way can he have fitted the TRV's the wrong way round (would never happen....he's a man :) Prior to him reading this I just wondered, the clunking/banging noise...

Off the top of my head I'm at work right now, it's a Baxi 105e and yes we do have TRVs fitted (something else that we've done....could that be the cause?) Will get Allan to check the pipe from the boiler.

Hi We have a terrible clunking/banging noise coming from our room. We started by bleeding the entire system, then replacing radiators (although the clunk was there before). The boiler thermostat is fine. We've put inhibitor through the system. There is now only one radiator that we've not...

Thank you so much! Hopefully this will calm him down!!!

Hi We have a plastic bath, which is relatively new....I'm dead meat! Dropped the shower head when I was cleaning the bath and it's chipped the bath....angry husband!!! In our last house, which was new, the shower tray had a crack in it. One of the guys from the site came out with a wee tub...

We hired a Rug Doctor carpet cleaner to do our beige carpet in our old house, you have to pull it very slowly, but the carpet came up a treat...we did sell the house in a week so it couldn't have looked that bad! Was about £13.00 to hire it if I remember rightly. Should have mentioned, we...

Thanks for the advice, the boiler we have is a Baxi 105e. We have 8 radiators and a heated towel rail in the bathroom. Honestly, the toilet is freezing and nope we don't watch telly in there, but don't want to be uncomfortable when we're doing our business :oops: Any heat would be a...

Don't know how good it would be but there is a product called plastikote that I was considering using for something similar, it claims that it can be put straight on without primer. It comes as a spray paint or can be painted straight on. I've seen it in art shops, maybe if you do a google on...

We moved into our house in April and we have a baxi combi boiler which is in a small toilet. The toilet itself doesn't have a radiator and now that the weather is getting colder, the toilet isn't very warm. Is it possible for us to put another radiator in there, we really don't know if there...

In a previous post, I explained that we'd bought a shower bath, at the moment the 2 doors just sit against one another and don't seem to join very well so we thought if we got a magnetic seal down the edge of the door it would be more effective.....unfortunately I can't find where you can buy...