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Aha, that's great. Thanks. I'll check that and come back to report the situation :)

Following regular grumbles from my partner's daughter that she was getting a shock off the dishwasher (which, initially, I didn't believe!), I discovered today that if I ground myself properly, I can get a shock off it too! After applying a voltmeter to it, I discover that the thing is at a...

I may not have explained the situation terribly well. [code:1] | BED | ROOM | .\ . \ . \------ slate roof, which I want to -----. \ replace part of with glass -----,,,,,\ | U---- gutter (in the interest of detail :) ) KITCHEN |...

I was going to leave the ceiling joists, for the reasons you mention, but call them a "feature" (the other half can hang saucepans from them :) ). I'd have to remove the insulation (as I'd be taking away the ceiling as well), but the hope was that, by putting in sufficiently good DG units, I'd...

Well, I suppose it'd end up being like a conservatory roof, yes. But it's an existing structure whose roof I want to change - my instincts tell me that that could well make rather a difference to the whole thing...

Ah, you know how it is...one unguarded comment, and all of a sudden you've got a Project on :) This is the situation: we have a kitchen extension, above half of which is a bedroom, and the remainder of which is covered by a sloping slate roof. In the bedroom, a small doorway under the window...

OK, so lay it floating, but go for a combo underlay incorporating damp-proof membrane and sound insulation. Sounds like a Plan. Many thanks...

OK, I have a kitchen/dining room area which is currently floored with Marley (vinyl) tiles onto a concrete base. I know nothing of the construction of the base, and I'm assuming it's sound and decent. What I want to do is to lay a wooden (well, bamboo, from these people) floor onto part of...

X10 isn't really new technology! But it isn't really all that reliable, either...