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Seriously though, thanks for the advice. I'll be giving the flueless a miss.

Gas fires have no place in the modern world? Of course they do. They generate loads of CO2, warm the atmosphere up nicely, melt the ice caps and bring the seaside much closer to sunny Manchester. And the best thing is that we're already prepared - we already have our nice draughty vents in...

Thanks for the advice. Extra ventilation is no problem, already in place and does not particularly affect room temperature. Fire will always be supplementary to central heating and it is not always cold and damp in Manchester (even if it is at the wrong side of the Pennines) so don't think...

Cheers. So, if the construction is as you said (I'll check this out) could I simply knock a couple of bricks out of the side of the fire place and then put a suitably sized vent through the outer skin in the side of the breast, or would I need to put a duct through the intervening space?

As part of my living room refit I am considering blanking off the existing fireplace and fitting a surface-mounted flueless gas fire on the now solid chimney breast. I understand that a vent needs to be provided to prevent condensation in the flue but, unfortunately, the installation guide...

I am planning to strip out and refurbish my lounge and I am considering turning the whole thing around, blocking up the existing fireplace (with or without chimney stack removal - not sure yet) and placing a flueless fire on the opposite wall. I know the 15mm gas feed to the existing fire...

There you go Stagman. Guess Jason's idea would be the perfect solution if you're happy to cut the mounting holes. I'd never seen one of these before. Will bear them in mind myself.

Are you wanting the hinge to be completely concealed? If you don't mind the edges of the hinges showing (you can get them ready finished in white if that would make them less conspicuous) then you could simply attach wooden battens behind the edges of the chipboard to take ordinary flush hinges...

Probably going to go the fan in ceiling route. Simplifies cabling a bit too. Just 3+earth to and from isolator in cupboard. Might even just let fan vent into void under upstairs bathroom.

Didn't even have satellite TV back then.

About 25 years ago a new house was being built on a plot of spare ground at the back of our garden. Ground levelled. Foundations laid. Damp proof course fitted and walls built to, I suppose, ground floor level. Plant hire lowloader arrives to collect JCB. Where is it? In the back garden of...

Cheers everybody. I've just eased up the corner of the floorboards above the pipes in question and found two severed ends. Can crack on wi' t' job now.

Thanks anyway.

What makes you think BC wouldn't like it? Do you mean from an electrical point of view or efficiency of ventilation? I would have thought that if the fan were capable of extracting the required volume of air from the toilet room, then the location of the fan would not really be of any...

Been playing with my shiny new electric nailer. Banged a few 30mm staples into a bit of wood then decided that, actually, that was quite a nice bit of timber; better hang on to it. Right... need to get those staples out. Where are the pliers? Can't be @r$ed going back out there; what is...

I agree; a PIC module seems the easiest route - a bit of learning to do, but nothing too taxing. This is a very complex requirement, with various different cycle times, different forms of trigger, different input and output devices etc. I can't see any way of doing this without some kind...

... which would mean the fan was mounted inside the cupboard, hence my original question. I don't really have any doubt that the arrangement would work - the cupboard is a relatively small fraction of the overall volume of the room and the fan is perfectly capable of shifting more than enough...

Because this would mean mounting ducting onto cupboard door (door is full size of cupboard), and that stuff is not all that flexible. Much easier to mount grille through door.

I'm currently refurbishing the dowstairs loo which has no extractor fan at present. I've already sussed out the wiring etc. (thanks to electrical forum). By far the best place to put the fan, in terms of cable routing and access to outside wall for venting, is in the wall of a large cupboard...

More a point of interest than a query really. I have recently had to fix my combi boiler - a Potterton Puma 80 - for a fault which has been very intermittent for the past 5 years but which has recently been occurring much more frequently and has got to the point when I can't rely on the...