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FWIW - I found this site: http://www.sealedunitsonline.co.uk/ to be quite informative when trying to find out what the actual glass should cost (including "heritage" thin units, as thin as 10mm) which may help your decision. I was surprised how cheap the actual glass bit really is. (I have no...

Hi We have a house built 1938, which has single-glazed crittall windows - with all the problems that entails. I am intending to replace them with alu double-glazed units which I will be fitting myself (as a part of a larger project which will involve the BCO anyway) - and was wondering if...

Ta. That worked. I was a bit nervous of damaging it, but it wasn't actually that tight in the end. I shall pay much more attention to the serviceability of the next one I buy!

Our thermostatic shower valve is misbehaving (1 year old, bathstore, not impressed). The instructions casually say "remove retaining ring" (see attachment). Um... how? It's threaded and pretty stiff; tools can't really get to it - forcing a pair of screwdrivers in gives no joy. I even tried...

I haven't really decided yet. The last time I did an extension (previous house) a friend who does designs and technical drawings for buildings drew up the plans for submission to building control, but I did much of the back-and-forth, (e.g calculations for the compliance with part L1b). This...

I am considering some options around remodelling the back of my property to knock down an existing flat-roofed construction and replace it with a marginally larger one with large glass doors (roof size of ~5m by 2m or thereabouts), with probably a zinc roof. I will require a structural engineer...

I'm not going to engage in a debate as to your interpretation of the gas regulations, and what you personally would or would not sign off on. I doubt that would be fruitful for either of us, as I imagine views are unlikely to change. Suffice it to say that every engineer I've used (this will...

Heh - I thought the Myson's would be just to give you an idea of the vintage I'm dealing with - though I didn't know they still made them! I'm not talking modern units; these are "60's look like an ugly gigantic radio, your choices being to either be warm or to hear yourself think". I actually...

Ah. Thankyou for this - very informative. I hadn't considered a filter. Given their cost is around that which I'd spend on powerflush machine hire anyway, it might be a better use of the money. I was a bit dubious previously, but I see they're now designed to capture non-magnetic grot too. I...

I am in the process of having the heating in a house we've just moved into updated, from a 1980s thing (inch pipes, header tanks, spaghetti junction pipes all over the house) to a simpler, modern combi. I have reason to believe the system hadn't been treated well for a while (OAP previous...

I have just bought a (domestic!) property that, for mainly historical reasons, has 3 electric meters. There's 3-phase coming in (via a triplet of 100A fuses); a 3-phase meter for an old swimming pool, one phase used for the house on a separate meter, and yet another meter for a granny flat...