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I'd love to remove all the woodwork at the top but not sure how to redesign it? I was thinking of completely removing the newel on the left. Obviously i'd need to keep (ie: replace) the one on the right but there'd be a 10-20cm gap between the wall and newel post. It's a bit of an odd gap, not...

Now the bathrooms have been re-modernised the missus is eyeing up a new staircase and tidying up the landing/hall. She has her heart set on an Axxys Clearview oak & glass kit which contains the handrail, baserail, two newel posts and the glass panels. At the top of our staircase there's...

Last year i did our en suite which involved replacing a standard radiator with a towel radiator. All the rads in the house are on 10mm pipes which are burred in the wall. When i replaced the rad in the en suite i lifted the floorboards, chopped the pipes, used 10 to 15 mm pushfit converters and...

ok thanks all. wow its sturdy stuff then.

We had our garage converted into a usable room last year. The builder used Kingspan TF70 100mm to insulate and raise the garage floor to the same height as the reset of the house. He's then over-boarded this with tongue and grove chipboard panels. I was under the impression a floating floor...

ok ill check with the instructions when the tray is delivered. many thanks for you help, its much appreciated ;)

Ah ok, yes we're putting new porcelain tiles down on the floor. I was planning to over board with wbp anyway so will use this as a base. So is the bedding mortar used only for levelling purposes or is it recommended even if the floor is already level?

I am about to pull out our old bathroom suite including a shower cubical and tray. The existing tray is acrylic and was installed on a riser kit. The replacement we've purchased is a low profile stone resin tray. The bathroom subfloor is chipboard tongue and grove panelling. I've not installed a...

pretty sure the current shower is an old Mira 8.5kw model. are we saying its to heavy and the new replacement i intend to buy should only be 7.6kw?

We're planning on renovating our bathroom and looking for new shower to replace an old 8.5kw shower. I haven't checked the cable size as yet but part of a protected group (80amp RCD) and is on its own B32 MCB. Can we go for a 9 or 10kw shower, assuming the cable size it adequate, or are we...

ebay it is, thanks all

the treadmills in there and the missus want to put some home gym stuff in it. not wanting to spend much on it, just make it a bit warmer and less draughty.

We have a Henderson up & over door in our garage. We live near the coast in the north east and needless to say the garage gets very cold at this time of year. There's a 20-30mm gap at each side of the garage door which isn't helping. I'm looking to fit draught excluders and probably insult the...

i'll just open the garage door if you want to be in my garage. surely that's big enough for your head & hat!

ok thanks all. indeed it is a bad bodge but just above the door lintel is a steel lintel that runs the entire length of the house. our builder said he's never seen anything like it and it would be easier to block up the door way and make a new one further down the wall. at the end of the day its...

Is there a legal height requirement for a fire door? We're converting half of a double garage into a habitable room. There is a dividing wall down the middle of the garage with an existing door way (no door or door casing/frame). Because we have installed a floating floor we now need to take 5"...

just youtube'd that, very interesting but looks like a skilled job and not something i'd fancy taking on.

The doors she's chosen allows for 10mm trimming either side. I was thinking of ripping out the old linings. I know if means more work but it would look better than oak doors with oak frames on white glossed linings. Is there another easier option I don't know about?

So the missus is on a mission to renovate the entire house and wants to start by replacing all the standard glossed white internal doors, skirting and architrave. She's wants to go with oak and has found some veneered doors at Howden's. I've been looking at real oak door linings, architrave and...

ok cheers, will stick with 10mm plastic and buy some inserts so I can connect them into the trv's