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Hi guys, I have a hole in an exterior wall that I belive was intended to be a window opening for the previous owner, It is about 30cm tall and the same again wide. It has a sheet of plywood on the outside covering it and same again on inside with a kitchen cupboard in front, In the winter it...

With the wind we have been having in the south I am getting some drafts entering the house, I have rechecked the survey we had done about 6 months ago before we moved in and there was a section that said about an unused air duct that needed closing up or removing, Just wondered how I would close...

We have just brought our house not so long ago and a loft conversion was done a few years back, I am an amateur but can tell it is certainly a budget fit!, It does the job and looks ok but on closer inspection it is a bit rubbish, It is really cold up there and although i can see they have...

Would it be a cheap plastic washer!!? It is a new mixer shower!! IT drives me nuts because we cant use it now as the banging gets too bad, If only we could get it to a good temperature without the banging!! Have tried with the taps running and not the shower and same thing, It is when the cold...

Ok so you got to love victorian houses, seems im never off these forums!! lol, ok so we have to replace our boiler in the next few months as ours is 30 years old and a bit ****, Our electric shower doesnt work and we dont want to renovate the bathroom yet so I added some cheap shower mixer taps...

LOL thanks, if I didnt have a slight phobia with massive spiders then I would willingly put my hand in there!!! it is like a small white plastic tap with a v shape groove in the centre!!, Might try some long nose pliers, Just wondering if anyone had made something and what they made it out of??

Ok I have decided to turn off the supply in the street, it is a single supply to my house only so wont be turning off the neighbours water!!, It has a fairly new looking meter and a white plastic tap about 12 inches down with a cut out in the middle of it, What can I use to turn it off, I...

I thought there might be but dont know how easy they are to turn off!!?

Hi all, Have recently moved into our lovely big victorian house but as you may see on other forum topics it has a few problems as most victorian houses do!! I am about to fit a mixer shower which I have done before and have no issue with but there is an issue with the stopcock, I have looked...

I think the problem is there is so much sealant around all the seals that it is impossible to see where it is leaking from, How do you lower the water level in the u-bend and empty the cistern, Be much easier to work on with no water in it!!??

Ok so the joys of owning a victorian house have struck again, We have a downstairs toilet and we knew there was a small leak but now it is getting used a lot (previous family had left it vacant for three months) it is leaking worse! It has two leaks, one where the ubend meets the toilet basin...

Hi Nige, Not sure what a tull album is, No I am a big gaming fan and its my gamertag on xbox!!, currently an mot tester but worked for peugeot for 8 years before that!

Cheers guys, i dont know much about roofs so dont understand a great deal about the picture but I get the fact that all round the conversion should be insulated and the roof rafters left alone to create air flow. The backs of the walls that make up the conversion dont have anything so will...

Thanks, So im guessing a couple of the roof tiles need replacing, When the guys are on the roof next week I will get them to have a look, Do you not insulate the eaves then?, I have noticed it is quite cold up in the loft conversion, anyway to combat this if Im not supposed to insulate rafters!.?

Hi guys first post so be gentle, me and the wife have purchased a three bedroom semi and the loft has been converted, albeit cheaply, Either side of the loft we have access to eaves, Firstly I noticed a stain appearing on the loft sloped ceiling and then a few patches on the wall where the...