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With winter drawing in I need to get round to a job i meant to do all summer. The suspended floor in my living room gets freezing during winter. I have about 1.5 meters space under it so intend to go down and insulate the best i can without spending to much. How effective would this stuff be...

Would a stepped edge like that work with a single skin block wall?

Am I right that you are laying a DPC on the slab under the first course of blocks? Will you then be rendering right to the bottom of the walls? I'm planning pretty much the same thing but I am worried about damp penetrating so trying to understand this

Does a course or 2 of engineering bricks on the slab with a DPC on them serve any benefit over blocks straight on the slab? Asking due to a block garage I am planning

Hi I am planning on building a block garage on a raft/slab foundation in my driveway, 4.5m x 6.5m. There used to be an old garage there which I had knocked down a few years ago. It will be done similar to the build in this link, but I will have a flat rubber roof...

Lessons learned: I needed to beef up my foundations, after advice on this forum and then speaking to the groundwork chap What depth/thickness have you changed the foundations to and are you using any steel in them? How is the build progressing?

Well the garage has said that a clip at the bottom of the radiator was leaking and has now been replaced and it now seems to be running fine. Ill be picking it up later so fingers crossed it was not as bad as first feared!!

It’s a petrol

I was hoping to get another 2-3 years since it’s all paid off. You’re right need to get it fixed regardless so could just gumtree it at a decent price and see if I get any takers!

i have a 2013 Qashqai that has done 102k miles. Last Wednesday it was MOT’d at a cost of £380, brake cable, suspension arm and driveshaft boot. On Friday I lost power on motorway, engine light on, engine temp high and no coolant, and had to get recovery truck out. The recovery guy poked around...

Thanks for all your help. Got 10 dimmable warm light LEDs from screwfix for £20 and a new Varilight double dimmer switch. After a bit of faffing with programming the dimmer so it went down further all seems well! Hopefully it stays that way and if so I'll do the same to dining room.

This is one of the current non working bulbs I need to replace. I had 4 of these in a room upstairs which I swapped for LEDs and they seem to work fine. Although they aren't dimmable which is what I require in living room.

Thank you for your help I was hoping there wouldn't be any requirement to change transformers etc which sounds like starting to get a bit complicated! I was hoping to just get a couple packs of these and a new switch...

We currently have 10 Halogen spotlights in our living room. These are operated by a double dimmer switch, one switch operating 4 lights and one 6. The dimmer for the 6 lights has stopped working and getting fed up with the frequency of bulb changing bulbs so we want to switch over to dimmable...

I have exactly the same from recent loft conversion. I couldn't help myself to paint it, but will now just leave it a while before repairing

we recently had a loft conversion and after moving into the new bedroom I have noticed that the towel radiator in the ensuite isn't heating up. I turned the beeding valve and no water came out. I then checked the boiler and the pressure is reading 0. All other radiators in house are working...

Hmm making me think an electric might be better option which is a shame. It will day to day be our main shower but almost seems pointless adding a second shower to the house if only one can be used at a time

Would a single normal small head shower perform better or perhaps just get an electric?

Thanks If they were both running, would it just mean the pressure in each would be reduced?

is this possible? Boiler is an Ideal Mini C29 installed roughly 2001 (few years before I bought the house) Currently have a Mira Atom ERD running off this, and would like to fit another in a new upstairs toilet. Any advice appreciated