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Thanks to everyone for replying! greasedmonkey - sounds like you did a tidy job. think I'll be going the plastic route as although I like copper it seems to be so much easier in plastic. CBF - thanks and noted! Galoka - wow that is really useful and very encouraging thank you! I think a...

:lol: :lol: That sounds just what I need, except the leaks!

Thanks Agile that's not a bad shout. We get on well with our engineer so I will ask him if this is something he'd consider. I'm pretty sure a couple of hours spent with him explaining it would get me 90% of the way there. Capability wise I am pretty confident - it's more the technical aspects...

Hi Got a fright when looking again at projected costs for our refurb :shock: so looking at what bits we can reasonably do ourselves. Is putting in my own central heating system feasible and would it save me a decent wedge of money? Ball park our engineer reckons he'll charge £300 per rad...

Here's a load of pics of our progress so far. Up to now it has all been prep work. We ripped the ceilings down in the basement, then had to get under the crawl space and remove all the old wiring and central heating pipework. Loads of cool stuff under there like newspapers from 1887 when the...

Hi everyone Update 29/9 - loads of pics in post 2 We're about to embark on a big project renovating our Victorian ground floor flat including tanking and converting the basement. Thought I'd make a thread here to record our progress - will post lots of pics and ask/answer questions as we...