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We're just about to buy a REDFYRE Traditional Rangecooker (like an AGA) which also combines oil fired central heating. Has anyone had any experiences of these... good or bad?

Does anyone have any experiences (good or bad) of traditional range cookers like AGA, Rayburn, Esse, Redfyre, Sandyford, Heritage, Alpha etc? (Oil fired) We are looking for a rangecooker which does central heating aswell (100,000 btus) ideally with an electric bolt-on ceramic hob/oven for the...

Yes...the building inspector 'inspected it' before the slab was laid. I'm now thinking that part of the floor may need to be dug up and a slow bend fitted instead. My dilemma is that I doubt the building inspector will pay for the remedial work to be done and my builder will simply say it...

Just had an unsavory experience unblocking my soil pipe on a Sunday night!! As part of our house extension, we asked our builder to put in two soil pipe positions as we weren't sure where to site the upstairs toilet. He's joined them together on one underground horizontal pipe (with fall)...

A few years back I remember that the experts were pushing zoning of the central heating system using separate pumps on each radiator loop instead of valves as the pumps are only about £40 each. Is this still common practice? If it is, it might suit me as I have a new extension to first fix...

Does anyone have any experience of underfloor (wet) heating? We have an opportunity to fit it before the 3" screed is laid but I keep getting mixed responses from Plumbers. I know its more difficult to install compared to rads but does it have any long term problems? Also, what about...

Just had a house extension built (shell at moment) and all the plumbers are quoting me for a Worcester Bosch Oil Condensing Boiler and a Megaflow to provide pressurised hot water. The old part of the house is an old vented system but with a relatively new large vented hot water tank which...

That's fair enough...I'll try and borrow a digital camera and put a photo on.

Sorry haven't got a photo. It is just a standard loft opening about 2' square. I just want to make it bigger that's all.

I want to make my loft opening wider. It currently spans 2 ceiling joists and I want to expand it to 3 joists wide. Not wanting my roof to collapse (traditional not truss) how do I go about this? Do I need to brace the 3rd joist across the top first before cutting it and replacing the cross...

Its a 2 storey extension not flat roof. Thanks for the advice everyone.

I am project managing my own house extension and need to know when to arrange for the screed floor to be laid. I know that the plumbing will run under the screed but do the electrians bury the ground floor ring main in a conduit before the screed is laid too? Or is it chased in at skirting level?

We've just had the shell of our extension completed and are now planning to have a new central heating system installed. We're probably going for a pressurised sealed system (oil) and I fully appreciate that this can only be fitted by a qualified plumber to meet current regs. However, in the...

We're having some quotes for a new garage and because our house is on a slight slope we will need to cut it back into the hill to keep it level with the existing house. At the back of the garage this will be about 1m below current ground level and our builder says this will need a 13" deep...

We're re-arranging the upstairs layout and the airing cupboard position is preventing us from our ideal layout. Is there any reason why the hot water cylinder shouldn't go up in the loft? We're probably going for a pressurised system and obviously I would need to build a lagged enclosure...

My house extension is now ready for the electrics phase and to cut a long story short I want to have everything done properly to meet all the regs but at the same token I don't really want to be paying people for the basic labour jobs such as chasing in cables, installing sockets etc. I want to...