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I'm aware these are required for fire doors, but is the idea that they go behind the whole of the hinge leaf in the frame? i.e. you don't just pack behind the bit in the groove for the intumescent strip, you actually chisel down to the depth of said groove and pack behind the whole of the hinge...

Not out of my depth at all, I just need more info. I've stripped out 7 door frames and built and installed them myself and hung 5 doors (last three I didn't need to trim the width at all, just slotted in). What I need to know is if there's a requirement for the intumescent strip to be continuous...

Hi. I'm a little uncertain how to keep the intumescent strip continuous when it comes to the hinges (or do you?). It's an FD30 with a 15mm x 4mm deep groove in the frame that starts 15mm from the edge of the frame (so intumescent will end up bang in the middle of the 44mm door width). However...

Hi. I'm new to plastering and trying to learn/practice on a fake wall before I actually need to do it in a couple of months. I had a couple of questions about how to do it? 1) I've redone all the door linings in my flat, and being built in the 70s the walls were not completely vertical, so in...

Proof that old posts can be very useful! I've just hung a couple of doors and had the exact same problem with one (larger gap on the latch side, nearly no gap on the hinge side). I stretched 3 new hinges after screwing them to some bits of hardwood and replaced the ones on the door and it evened...

My new rule #1 for DIY:- When going to buy materials, just take the car. Two disasters have taught me this. First one was bringing back expanding foam in plastic bags on bike. Can cuts through bag and falls on ground, starts hissing. Then the foam starts coming out the bottom of the can. Not...

Just to clarify did you remove the door casing (architrave) or the door lining/frame (so there literally just a hole in the wall? There should have been some sort of concrete/steel lintel holding the brickwork up above the door frame, unless for example you have two doors right next to each...

Hi. I'm staining some internal doors with Ronseal 5 year woodstain. It implies it's for outdoors but if it's good enough for outdoors it's good enough for indoors - but I'm wondering if I should varnish afterwards? I can apparently just recoat every 5 years, I don't know if varnish would be...

Hi. I'm fitting a fire door lining (FD30) and am not totally clear on what is acceptable material to fill any gaps between the frame and rough opening - wondered if anyone would be kind enough to clarify? I've read various websites that say use mineral wool for gaps over 6mm, mastic if the gap...

Thanks guys. Turns out there is a lintel (at least I assume so) because when I removed the adjacent cupboard door frame it had a steel one there. I'm assuming the course of bricks is because the lintel for the door I posted about is above this cupboard one (they're supported by the same bit of...

Hi. I'm in the process of replacing a number of door linings and in knocking off a bit of old plaster (old linings were all rebated at the edge for some reason) a bit of wall came off at the bottom. The wall itself is cheap grey breezeblock type with some kind of render (?) and then plaster on...

Hi. I'm replacing some internal doors and doing the whole lot, frames and all. Picture of the top of the rough opening for one is below. Are internal doors meant to have lintels? Only I don't see one...are they something you would see in this case? I've run a stud metal detector thing over the...

Hi. I've ripped out one of my interior doors and all the wooden frame around it, and now need to replace. My rough opening is 206.5cm x 77cm. There's the potential to make this about a cm bigger vertically and maybe 2cm horizontally, because there's about a cm of plaster (with mesh in it) all...

I've just had my bathroom ceiling skimmed and have painted with two coats of Dulux trade supermatt (thinned 3 parts paint to 1 part water). Once done there was a noticable bit in the middle that wasn't smooth (stripey bits), so I sanded back to the plaster, smoother it and repainted that part...

Point of curiousity as much as anything else. I've recently moved into a ground floor flat. The rising water main for the flat above me comes up in my kitchen, runs through the length of it to my airing cupboard and then goes up through the ceiling. In the event that this pipe burst and for...

Hi. I'm seriously considering installing an air source heat pump (we have no gas on the estate, storage heaters are not for me). I've just submitted planning today, but what would be really useful I feel is to actually go see one of these things installed (without any bias from a company trying...

I'm considering having one of these installed - I've been quoted approximately £5.3K for a 5KW one including new hot water cylinder, MCS installation etc. I was wondering if anyone not too far from Cambridge has one I might be able to have a butchers at. Would be very interested to hear from...

Hi. I'm in the process of putting up new plasterboard on my ceiling studwork. The ceiling itself is concrete block and beam. The concrete blocks are the cheap hollow ones (pebble like/rice crispie like appearance), and there are a lot of gaps up to about 10mm wide in places round the edges of...

Thanks for the help....will try and learn to a) use the quote button b) say what I actually did in future rather than what I think I did :) It's good to have some confirmation that the guy was right and I should leave that cable there.

It's also something I'm sort of looking at. At the moment I only run the immersion for an hour a day which isn't too bad, so wasn't really looking to replace it. Plus there's no pipework for radiators...it's partly a cost thing. If I can find a decent system for maybe 3 or 4K with full...