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I think I'll do the batten and board thing -as that's wot I did in the bathroom so I know how to do it. Thanks all :-)

The creak/cracking sounds like it's coming from very particular spots on the ceiling. There's one or two 'favourites' but in general I can pinpoint origin of the noises to within 6 inches - or at least , that's what it sounds like! And they are not near the eaves - they're in the middle of the...

Have had a floorboard off nearby - as I say, the walls are brick-built and rise up from earth, which is covered in set pitch (the 1907 interpretation of a damp-proof course...?). No smell of damp, but methinks that any wall made of old-fashioned, porous clay brick, laid straight on the ground is...

Can't think of any way to deal with lack of DPC, other than dismantle house and start again, but being mid-terrace, the other properties have done a sterling job of holding mine up since they were built!!

No draping going on, no door either, so always 'open' ;-) just cheaply built miners' cottage dating from 1900's with no DPC, to speak of, other than a layer of pitch on the earth upon which the bricks were laid or to judge by appearances, simply thrown up in the air and allowed to lie where...

While not wishing to gain a reputation for being picky, they don't not get hot 'cos they only consume 5 watts, they don't get hot 'cos they don't contain a filament that heats up and glows... BUT, the light energy created by modern bright LED lamps will heat up enclosing objects so don't be...

Nothing much - bulb only on when door open...

In my 1900's-ish brick-built mid-terrace house, there is a space under the stairs which I use as a larder. The walls are brick and are permanently slightly damp, with the damp getting more noticeable the nearer the ground I feel. At the mo' the walls are covered with lining paper, painted. But...

All I can say is that I once made bookshelves out of a load of scaffolding boards, left in my garden after the roof was done and they've done sterling service for years! :-)

and get the right sand... http://www.stastier.co.uk/nhl/guides/sandmort.htm

Pop your face mask on and get sweeping - that's what I did... my ceiling voids were full of coal dust - Eugh! I kept the windows wide open when I brought the ceilings down and most of the dust went out the window! :-)

When I moved into my very modest brick-built turn-of-the-last-century town house in central Bristol, I was faced with a similar issue. After I had hacked off the loose plaster from the worst walls, I found very poor brickwork with unfamiliar mortar (OK with my experience, any mortar would have...

Screwfix? http://www.screwfix.com/search?search=gu10 Good names - I bought a set of chinese ones a few years ago... won't be doing that again! :oops:

Hard one to call - don't think I can recall any difference... The back bedroom faces west and so catches the predominant south west winds, but I don't recall the issue being any worse or indeed any better when it's blowy. The only thing I can add is that if I had to guess, I'd say it sounds...

(Servers stay on 24/7 and their hard disc drives keep going for years...) Replace yours with one off of fleabay - look for drives from western digital, or seagate - or think about buying a solid state drive from Samsung, as these are getting cheaper and cheaper and can give you nice performance...

My century-old, mid-terrace, brick-built 2 storey house has a loft... both upstairs rooms had new ceiling joists and plasterboard ceilings about 10 years ago. Every 10-20 minutes I hear a creak/crunch from up in the ceiling of the back room - no such noises are heard from the vicinity of the...

This is quite common with Bravias, apparently... try doing a factory reset.

I am no expert (which won't stop me posting on here... ;-) ) but I have just been trying to get more info. about my own WB 24i junior and I doknow that there are a lot of different older models - which one exactly is yours?[/b]

I notice, gasright, that you have been thanked 51 times - on this occasion, I think I'll give that a miss... :wink:

Just out of interest, guys, why does my combi boiler pump had a lever with 3 settings on it? Why would I choose one setting over another? It's been on I out of III ever since it was fitted and all the rad.s getting jolly hot, jolly quick so I was wondering what the other settings are for...