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PBofD, No, it can be any sort of heater. She really only uses it when she feels cold, like before the room has warmed her up. The Dimplex is fine except she can't hear the TV over the noise.

we have a 3kw Dimplex fan heater for occasional use. It's very good except for the noise it makes at any setting. Anyone know of a quiet, small heater? A 2kw heater would do. But it must be easily portable for a frail lady.

I had a neighbour once who treated his chippings paths with something used by the Railways on their lines and embankments. It stopped weeds for years but it also sterilised the soil around the paths so nothing would grow there, either. I don't quite know why I'm telling you this except to...

Whoops, I hit the submit button by mistake. To bring the post to an end let me say, again, that you've been most lucid and helpful. Economy seven is the way to go for ease of installation, ease of maintenance, and ease of the mind when it comes to payment. I daren't mention the c word again...

Yes, JohnD, that's what I wrote all right. But as the investigation went on it became clearer and clearer that some options could work out pretty dear. Servicing an unvented cylinder annually for instance. And I just got interested in the whole thing and needed a focus to base a post...

This didn't start out as an exercise in saving money. We've had a door blocked off from the kitchen which gives us the opportunity for more cupboard space in the hall. This is where the dhw cylinder is sited.. So I thought if I could move the cylinder as well I'd have even more storage...

I see what you mean about weedy flows. I'm rapidly going off the idea of an elec shower.... Do you mean getting an calor gas boiler just to heat hot water? I didn't know they existed. If they do, wouldn't that be more expensive than electricity?

JohnD, I like the way you figure. That way of working at one tenth of an hour is clever. So, realistically, the costs could break down like this: A cylinder of hot water at 5.1p = 46p x 365 = £167.90 pa two showers using 2kwh at 10.572p =...

An economy seven direct hot water cylinder or an electric shower and a couple of instantaneous sink heaters? I find this very hard to work out. Our hot water cylinder holds about 140 litres of water and the night time rate for electricity is 5.099p per kwh. It takes about 3 hours to heat...

The previous posters are exactly right. You do need petrol and something above the normal diy kit. My next door neighbour hired a guy last year for a job similar to yours. He turned up with a Husqvarna extending and angle-adjustable hedgecutter with which he did a grand job. Apparently you...

Of course! I should have seen that myself immediately. Thanks for your reply.

I have a copper cylinder, heated at night under economy seven, using one long immersion heater element. I intend to replace the cylinder with a more modern one with proper insulation I there any real advantage to having a cylinder with two immersion heater elements entering from the side...

Get somebody knowledgeable to look at this. When branches grow together at too close an angle the contacting areas of bark and wood can compress each other. You can usually see the compressing ridges. The areas are actually weakened and vulnerable to splitting apart when under stress such...

Hi Guys, A disaster! I don't use Windows as my operating system and, when I used Linux to try to load Imageshack, I've crashed my system. At the moment I'm using a 'live OS - one that runs from a floating CD only) to communicate and a fair old trouble that's been too. So I'll sign off...

Right, I'm slowly getting the idea. I'll certainly enlist in Photobucket, or similar, but it will have to be tomorrow now. I've been digging in the garden and I'm tired. Thanks for all your posts.

Oh dear! I've downloaded a couple of pictures of the consumer units to Picasa, my photo program. I've also created an Album in Diynot.com. The trouble is that I have to select a 'browse' button to start putting the snaps into the album but I can't find the button. Anyone know where it is...

Hello ban-all-sheds, Yes, we have peak and off-peak supplies. The mains supply and meter are in a box on an outside wall. The box has two fuses from which two heavy supplying cables enter the house to the consumer units. A single, heavy cable for the 'everything else' consumer unit...

Hi, We are all electric in our place. There are two consumer units, (both with MCB's), one for the seven storage radiators and one for everything else in the house. The 'everything else' one is connected to a 63amp, 100ma trip, RCB. I've just noticed, when decorating the cubby, that the...

Hi, What do you need to know? If the stove is freestanding, is the problem just getting it out of the house? Or is it so big that it has to be dismantled? I can't imagine that it's built into the walls... There's all sorts of things we could ask - is the flue pipe just resting on the...

If you can't start afresh, as suggested, you could just carefully staple fine chicken wire over all of the scaffold boards. Put down tightly it makes a fine antislip tread.