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Hey Not sure what exactly she had done on the roof of the house who knows if they even did anything? All upstairs bedrooms are fitted with vents in the wall and also the kitchen larder has one. Bathroom has an extractor fan but kitchen does not. I am not sure if the walls are cav ity...

Hey everyone, my mum lives in an old flat roofed house, I think they were put up during the war time as temporary accomodation but then they just kept using them, only picture I have to show the type of house is this one http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2972/73541526.jpg It is an end...

Sorry, its been a long day so my post probably didnt make much sense and I have just spent the last couple of hours outside tyring to dismantle things and unfreeze stuff, not to mention having no heating really sucks, my hands are like ice. I want to get a plumber to do it as I really dont...

Hey, thanks for the reply, the boiler still fires and if i bleed the pump some hot water drizzels out, I have shut it off completely now so I dont damage anything. The plastic pipes come out of the house are fine as they are fed through larger pipes which are then cemented around. I did...

Hey everyone With the cold weather recently my central heating stopped working last night, after some investigation tonight it seems the pipes running from the boiler to the house have frozen and one has split, now whoever installed this boiler was a total cowboy, the pipes are ran about a...

Hi, does anyone have any ideas on the best way to check for a header? Cheers. David

Thanks for the reply, how do I go about doing this as I have never done it before. David

Hey everyone, I am looking to fit patio doors in my living room where there is already a window, guy in works think its a pretty straight forward as he has done it before, he says there should already be a lintel in place so I dont have to worry about this but am not 100% sure. My window...

Hey, I am in the middle of refurbishing my living room and I am getting it replastered next week so in the process of removing skirting board and door frames etc but it is prooving to be very difficult First the skirting boar isnt very deep and actually goes down the back of the floorboards...

Yes, bonding is for the ceiling and fireplace, I will not be putting a fire back in as I have mounted my tv above the fireplace, I dont really need the fireplace tidied up but he said it would only be an extra £10 for materials do it, I am building a unit that will cover it all anyway but for...

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies, the room is 21 foot by 11 foot I think, I have also removed my fireplace so its back to the bare brick, he will be tidying this up for me also, he will also be doing my window frames which are made of metal, he will be bonding plasterboard on there first the...

Hey Had a plasterer come out and give me a quote tonight, to do the entire room and ceiling he quoted £220 plus materials, I would have to strip the old artex ceiling though, but seems easy enough as its mostly falling off. Does this seem like a reasonable enough price, he said he was...

Hey everyone, I am in the process of redecorating my living room and I will most likely be getting the entire room replastered, I am tracking the walls for my surround sound system to hide all the cables and I want to try and get rid of my radiator pipes. All my downstairs radiators are...

Hi, thanks for the help, I think it will be best to just get it plastered, I know a few plasterers who will give me mates rates so shouldn't be too costly, will get them out and get a few quotes.

Just took some pictures of the bad areas to show what I mean, this is just some of them, there are multiple areas similar to the pictures, also notice how close a nail hole is to the wall that has been tracked for a power socket, whoever was putting up the dado rail must not have even checked...

Wow, I was completely off the mark then, I did a quick search on google and a lot of people said sanding plaster shouldnt be a problem. I do not want to put up any sort of paper again! My room is about 21foot by 11foot, How much roughly would it be to replaster the entire room including...

Hey everyone I am just about finished stripping my living room and have noticed a few problems that I will need to sort before painting it. There has been a picture rail at some point and when this was removed someone has filled it in pretty badly as it must have ripped chunks of the plaster...

Hey everyone, I am in the middle of building an entertainment unit for my living room using some 12mm MDF, I have got all the wood cut but have a few problems. Some of the bits of mdf are warped slightly, should I just screw it altogether and it will eventually straighten up or will I need to...

I wont be putting any shelfs in front of the fireplace, they will be at either side so will need to run cable from left to right to connect my amps etc together plus I want to have access to run cables in the future so if I had a pipe running through from left to right I could run cables through...

Ok, I have had another idea. I want to build 2 av cabinets, one for either side of the fireplace, I will also be building a stud wall in front of the fireplace to bring it out level with these av cabinets, but cabling might be difficult, I know I could run it through the stud wall but then...