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It's actually 11 rads currently, increasing to 14. On the ground floor are 5 rads, 1 in hallway, 2 in living room, 1 in playroom and 1 in kitchen. The other 6 are upstairs

I have a 3 story semi with 11 rads feeding 4 bedrooms, a large family bathroom. The largest bedroom has an ensuite. We're having an extension that will house a small WC, a laundry room and small office so # rads will increase to 14. What size boiler would suffice? Thanks, Graham

what do you mean "a carpenters bench frame" ? It's dry(ish), the garage was a mechanic's work shop so it's fairly oil stained etc. I'm not too worried about it getting dump, unless of course that can affect the timber. We've been there since May and over the winter it hasn't gotten damp/wet etc.

The garage I've got with my new house has a 6/7 foot deep inspection pit. It's about 1 meter wide and about 3 meters in length. I don't want it properly filled in and cemented over as it'll be gone forever (and I'll lose potential storage space). What I'd like is to run a battern down each...

Interesting, I'm assuming people would be put off by the back boiler and would prefer a combi boiler.

Hi, I'm about to buy a house for renovating and it has an old style back boiler system installed. I was wondering whether it'd be better to rip that out and replace with a more modern combi boiler system. The house is a standard 2 bed terrace. This might be a stupid question without...

Yeah I can appreciate that, thanks for the reply anyway. It's a standard 1930s 3 bed council house but yeah was a bit of a dumb question I suppose. Cheers, Graham

Hi, A house I plan to buy has had the chimney breast on the ground floor removed but left in place on the first floor and in the loft. At this stage I don't know whether the chimney is adequately supported and my mortgage lender want to see a structural engineers report. I'm assuming the...

Hi thanks for your reply. I've got with a heavy duty wall bracket from Amazon, the kind of thing you'd hang a punch bag from and it can be folded down when not in use. Cheers,

Hi, In my garden I have two walls at a 90 degree angle and I want to "fix" a beam of wood (2inch*2inch) between the two walls. I say fix but I want to be able to take it down and put it back up with minimum effort. Can anyone suggest the best way to achieve this? Are there any 45 degree...

Whoops never saw that, didn't get emails to tell me someone replied. Is there any difference to laying it on top of the existing, in the same direction or at 90 degrees to the existing.

Hello all, I plan to add more insulation to my loft, there is already some insulation between the joist, which I wish to increase. Would it be OK to simply lay the new insulation at 90 degrees to the existing joists/insulation, or should I lay it on top of the existing insulation even though the...

Hi, I'm thinking of insulation my loft, there is already some insulation between the joists. The joists are about 4 inches deep, if I'm gonna lay 270mm or about 10inches of insulations on top of the existing, then do I build the joists up to 10 inches or can I (as someone suggested) simply lat...

Hi Sarah, did you get anywhere with insulating your loft, I'm thinking about doing the same but wasn't sure where to start. I've been looking at some insulation from Wikes and I wanted to put some boards down also. I'm not sure whether I need to leave a gap between the insulation and the boards...

So what do I do, her mortgage lender are saying she needs to get an expert to look at the damp. Wont every survey who does a survey on my house use the same and recommend the same Thanks graham

So how come the person doing the survey used one. Surely he is wrong to use one and then suggest in his report that the buyer get advice

Hi, Ive been reading the post about rising damp not existing with great interest. I've just had a survey done on my own house, the surveyor has recommended that the person who is interested in buying my house, have someone come out and inspect it. When I moved in, the wall paper in the...

Ok I understand that. If I have a seperate pipe from the cistern to the cold bath tap, then do I still need the pump on the hot to bring the pressure up to the cold? Won't having the new pipe directly to the cold tap mean that both the hot and cold are of equal pressure? Thanks graham

It will only get raised about 7 foot. What about the issue of having my cold mains fed, can I stick a pump on it? Do pumps exist only for the hot water pipe? It would be ideal if I could stick a pump on the hot just before it reaches the bath tap

My cold is mains fed, can I still fit a pump? Some other comments I've read say they still get cr@p pressure even when the cold water tank is in the loft