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Unfortunately so... our current bathroom has a permanently-open vent in the wall and still gets mould due to the lack of air circulation. Leaving a window open all day would help but isn't an option as we both work. So, humidistat-controlled ventilation appears to be the least-bad solution :)...

I'll look at the bigger fans - I'm going for a separate controller anyway, so that should increase my options. I honestly hadn't thought of a bigger slower fan, makes perfect sense though.

Are you thinking 4" inlet/outlet ducted into a larger size fan? I hadn't thought about that but certainly a possibility if it offers an advantage within reasonable cost. Exhaust valve / roof outlet are my only real limiting factors, I can certainly have a bigger fan spinning at a slower rate.

I'm in the process of building a bathroom. I want to install an inline extractor so have a vent-tile in the roof (the sort with a 4" duct coming off, intended for mechanical extractor outlet) and a 4" exhaust valve in the ceiling over the shower. I intend to install a separate timer/humidstat...

I am building a bathroom in a part of the house that has never had a bathroom before. As part of this I have pulled up the original floorboards and replaced with WBP ply. I have reinforced with noggins and affixed the ply to the joists with 70mm screws and it is solid. Due to the position of...

This is going to sound silly... I bought a pressure gauge a while back and forgot about it until I read your response. I've just checked... 4 bar static, 3 bar when the shower in the old bathroom is running full whack. That sounds healthy, so I doubt I'm getting a pressure increase when they...

In many cases I don't think it's people wanting a combi, so much as the combi being a cheaper option if you have the water and gas service to make it a realistic proposition. When I had my heating replaced, I had my venerable old cast iron BBU, loft cistern and copper tank replaced with a...

I've put in new pipework for a new bathroom as well as replacing some existing pipework that was in the way of building the bathroom. I would like to test my joints before I start screwing boards down, and have borrowed one of those pumps with a tank of water, hand-pump and gauge. I had my...

That looks like exactly the thing i need. Thanks!!!

I'm having some work done in the garden at the moment, which has revealed my water feed is in lead pipe, coming from another lead pipe. I would like to have a non-lead feed, partly because of the lead issue but also as this would be an opportunity to boost the flow-rate coming in. Thing is...

Thanks all - I recall the previous owners moved in around 1960 so I know it's since then, but I have no way of getting in touch with them now. I'll see if I can retrieve any plasterboard edges since I'm about to pull some boards down. Interesting to know it could be 1972 or earlier though, in...

I'm trying to date some work done by previous owners of house. Just for interest's sake. They used foil-backed 12.5mm plasterboard, but everything else i can find is un-ageable or original hence really old.. Anyone have any ideas on when foil backed board was introduced?

Thanks all. I've just been up in the loft and was surprised to see how much condensation has formed up there since I exposed the lathes in one area, it's literally dripping off the sarking. Never had that before, even when I had a cistern and F&E tank up there. So, I will definitely install a...

I need to reboard my upstairs ceilings. 100 years ago my house was built with lathe and plaster ceilings, and at some point in the past some of the upstairs ceilings have had damaged plaster removed and then foilbacked plasterboard affixed over the lathes. Unfortunately due to a presumed lack...

I think that's a pretty good idea - not just because my wheelie bin is rarely more than half full! Sounds like plenty of you are in areas where councils are charging for all sorts of rubbish, hopefully my lot don't cotton on to that!!!

Recently we went to our local tip with a boot-full of rubble. Pulled up next to the skip marked "HARDCORE AND RUBBLE" and started emptying the sacks. Just as we are emptying the last few bags, tip employee arrives and shouts "That's DIY waste, that is, you can't dump that here!". At first I...

So bad!!! No way any proper tradesman would do those bodges, must have been a chancer. I bought a house that was rewired in 1998... only 9 years before I bought it so I didn't get an electrical survey. Anyway, I finally got rid of the last piece of lead-sheathed VIR cable a while back. Adding...

I have a two-storey house, built in 1919, brick cavity wall construction. I plan to remove a wall on the ground floor, to knock two rooms together. There is no wall above this wall on the first floor, but when I lifted the upstairs floorboards it would appear that the joists are resting on this...

Thanks all, seems I was worrying over nothing - thought that might be the case. (y)

I'm about to build a new airing cupboard over a ground-floor concrete slab. The house is 100 years old, it isn't a suspended concrete floor, simply a slab in contact with the earth. I'd like to insulate the floor a) to lose less heat from the cylinder, b) to help reduce noise from the shower...