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It's trivial to cut your own. Buy a circ saw. Buy some long timber Measure the length you want, and the fall (you say 2" to nothing over 3.7m), then mark the long timber with that. Screw another length of timber to it whatever consistent distance is the distance the saw blade is away from the...

I'd use something insulating, especially if the screed has UFH pipes in it (I'd go for more of a gap) then put the floor covering over it. Highly unlikely anyone is going to arrive to your house and step the stiletto of their high heel right on the part that I'm proposing should be insulation...

No house is prone to condensation unless humans live there. Nothing about a building intrinsically generates airborne moisture If you've installed more airtight windows and blocked the chimney, then you've potentially considerably cut down the amount of background ventilation the property...

Oh no Sounds like your life habits might be putting too much moisture in the air in the first place.. maybe lacked the brain cell count required for drone pilotry

Personally, I'd just use two strap bosses Toolstation sell the bosses and the rubber bungs separately; see related purchases I'd also use black waste not white

No. The regulations don't mandate a heating system must be installed, they refer more to energy efficiency. Approved document part L deals with conservation of fuel and power and sets out recommendations for how potential heating systems may meet regulation, but there are many buildings in this...

Note, OP doesn't want longevity, literally just a tart job Note, OP wants the fensa cert(for subsequent sale) when it's replaced as part of a bigger job next year I mean, I get it, but equally it's that crazy "I'll put up with <insert negative aspect here> myself now, but then later...

But the idea is that "if you're willing to compromise*, you can save" If you're not willing to compromise on participating in group peak demand behaviour then you don't save so much .. Note that when I say compromise, what I really mean is make some adjustments to the timing habits that a...

The heatmiser neostat thermostats I use would meet your needs i think. I couldn't see any indication of the maximum power they can switch but if you didn't want switch a wall panel heater with the built in relay you can use it to switch a higher powered relay that activates the heater. You can...

When you say that, do you mean it's unlikely you can change electricity tariffs or unlikely you can install storage heaters? Would a tariff like octopus cosy help? Cheap periods, in the day Storage heaters aren't so bad, and second hand ones are available for less than new.. You do have to...

Buy a big tub of car body filler, fill it and smooth it out with a spatula, paint it and leave it til replacement time. It's all going in a skip soon and you're just after a some aesthetic improvement so don't go too crazy with it..

Wegde some string into the entire perimeter of the gap, with a tail hanging, tell your plasterer to be careful with it, don't plaster it in thickly (have the gap edges set the level for the plaster; paint will hide them), then when done with the finish and before it's dry, pull the string

Don't really understand why you removed them. If anything larger pieces of hardcore help keep moisture away from the wall which isn't harmful. If it was levelled out roughly, put a membrane over then fill the top 4-6 inches with topsoil and grass seed, or edges neatened up and gravel etc then...

if it came down to a choice of what a dipstick told me, or what 20 year old French electrics told me, I know where I would put my money Remove, wipe, reinsert, remove, lay the dipstick on a blank piece of paper, and take a photo. Not too close; you can always zoom a photo after but going too...

Aye carumba. Single pane glazing too. Why wait? Replace this window now and the others next year

Do you have any hot tap that isn't a mixer? If you open that tap, do you still get the cycling? If no, perhaps it's the classic fight between a thermostatic valve and a combo boiler that can't establish a steady state - the valve is open, the hot water starts flowing at eg 70 degrees, the valve...

I've known of it before (with my former solicitor) where the buyer and seller were existing clients of the same solicitor, but he was pretty clear that it had to be a genuine former relationship (eg at two random times on the past they'd both needed a conveyance) and not just that it had been...

Do your parents have any desire to get involved? Perhaps they have the time to learn from you what is needed to be watched for at each stage, and you can be the backup voice of reason if they need you to step in Plus, they would be dealing with your vetted and approved contacts and contractors...

Oh no, not another one of those "insulation causes condensation" peeps.. :)

Was the cladding installed the right way up? Sure, you can build one even