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Our house is an old 1850 sandstone cottage. The floor in living room originally was old sandstone flags laid directly on earth eg no dpm. It has been partially concreted so unable to return back to original flags so plan to lay a new sandstone flags on top. When we moved in it was carpet on...

quickstep is good = laid 3 floors with this stuff with no problems

If one of the main parties were to turn round and say we want out of Europe they would get my vote. The idea of the common market was good in principle to allow us to trade with our neighbours easier but this Europe has turned into a monster with no accountability to the individual country...

having a thread like this over 4 pages highlights the issue this particular forum has compared to other forums on this server

It would appear BAS is the biggest culprit but I am sure he will make a very valid and informative post like he always does!!!!!

Point taken - I will however say out of all the forums on this server the electrics one seem the least friendly and least helpful of them Come on sparks you cant have a bricky or chippy having the moral high ground

Have to agree recently Someone asks a simple question, instead of getting a straightforward answer it turns into a rant about you shouldn't be doing that, ur not qualified, u need to inform building control, u need to get someone in who knows what they are doing because you obviously don't...

This Part P is a total scam to make money, it has nothing to do about making the industry safer. I am a time served apprentice of over 25 years experience in electrics, I have 17th edition reg qualifications and can do any wiring at all where I work on a industrial complex, I have wired up...

I have an 1850 old cottage which has sandstone flags laid direct onto earth, half of the room has had concrete laid on top so not able to keep flags throughout the room. The room is 7m x 3m I want to level the floor with something like stopgap 900 then lay a floating engineered wood floor on...

I dont think it is damp but the wall does need to breathe according to my father as behind one wall there is a earth bank higher than the bottom of the wall

My Living room is long and thin and the two ends of the room are on external solid sandstone walls. We have removed the very old fibre board which was battened off the lime plastered walls I would like to dryline the wall to add some insulation to it but was not sure how to do it and what to...

Just had a look - very interesting, anyone got first hand experience of this technique?

Good cup of tea always a must

Wanted to keep the stone effect on the fire and the wall to the side but the other walls dont look so good so wanted to either render or dryline but not sure which and which render mix or which plasterboard due to needing the walls to breath Here is the pics of the other walls This...

No its not listed - was originally 4 cottages