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Hi I am planning on adding a window to the side of our garage. I have checked with planning and we are fine as the window will face into our land and will not over look anyone elses property/land. As the wall is single skin (marshallite stone blocks) and the window will be 4 ft wide is...

Thanks for the info Tony. I will search around the net tonight. I wonder if the central heating cover from the links of British Gas would charge extra with there being in affect 2 boilers to cover? Anyone come across this? Cheers Robert

Hi all We are due to move house in a few weeks to a nearly new house (2 yrs). When we looked around the owner explained that the central heating system wa slightly different to the norm. This is what he said: With the house being a large 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom house it had a system...

hi Thanks for the responses, some good information. It is not me that is installing the thing it is someone I know who is installing it to heat a large garden pond (home to several large koi carp). I just thought I would check it out for him to be on the safe side. Many thanks Rob

Hi all Is there an regs which would stop you having a gas boiler installed in a wooden constucted out building / shed? I seem to remember somewhere in the past that boilers had to be fitted in a solid contructed building, is this correct? cheers Rob

Hi all Just want to check as to whether it is safe/correct. We have a 5 year old house. The kitchen was fitted by the builders and they installed an integral electric oven. This can be isolated with a cooker switch on the wall and it is fed by it's own mcb on the cosumer unit. All...

The type I fitted can be set to work in daylight, due to the bathroom blinds and frosted glass the room is not bright even during the day so the light comes on. Rob

Hi Firstly we are in a soft water area, thank god!! We get no limescale buildup at all, the kettle is 4 years old and still like new inside!! I think the easiest will be if I email you pictures of the bathroom and then explain what we did. What is you email address? Cheers Rob

Hi i know what you mean about cleaning shower enclosures!! We fitted a wet room 18 months ago and used this companies tanking kit. We didn't use a former as we built our own but the tanking kit was spot on and the help/service was second to none. We found the liquid rubber went...

Not sure if this is what you mean but we have a PIR type light senor in our wetroom. It sits where the pull cord used to be in the ceiling. Walk in lights and fan come on leave and 2 mins later it all goes off. Did it because I hate pull cords!!!! Been in about 18 months now and works...

Hi We live in a newish property and the builders seem to have used the lightweight airated blocks for the inner skin of walls. This is fine until you want to fix anything securely to the wall. I have tried several of the fixings on the market but none seem very substantial. The reason...

Hi all Thanks for all the information and advice, I did a search on the web and by chance found the following. Not only do they do the doors I have been searching for for 18months but they are located 5 miles down the road!!! :lol: http://www.foldingslidingdoors.com These are what I...

John I am aware that I need to fit external grade doors to where the old ones were and that is not a problem. My main concern is I want to keep the open aspect as it is now so the door must open completely. I have had 3 UPVC window and door people in to have a look and all said they...

this is interesting! In a similar instance our front door has a large over hang and I was thinking of adding flush mounted lights. The house is new and there is a junction box already there connected to the lighting circuit and a switch inside the house. Am i right in thinking that I can...

Hi Thanks for the ideas. With regard to solicitors not signing off how do you buy a house that needs work then! Say you buy a house which the survey says needs rewiring and a new roof as it does not meet regs. In a lot of cases the previous owner would discount the house to compensate...

Hi Thanks for all the info. The conservatory was built to very high standards from the start as we made sure of that. The foundations were 1m deep (actually deeper than the house it's self) the slab is fully insulated with 4" sheet, dwarf walls are all cavity filled, conservatory roof is...

Hi all Can anyone give me some basic advice? We had a conservatory fitted at the beginning of this year and in our area it is exempt from planning and building control. To fit the conservatory they removed a UPV bay on the back of the property and the plans were to replace this with...

Hi all We have been thinking about investigating the possibility of converting our loft to increase the size of the house. I am aware of the endless regs which must be followed ie. doors, fire proofing etc but does any one know what rules would apply to increasing a room size as follows...

Good point, god you are all so helpful!!! :lol:

Thanks for your comments, I was going to drive some screws in to the footer though the plaster board to fix the bottom. Do you mean rebate the new stud and fix a plywood plate in at approx the location of the wall bracket? I like that idea.... Robert