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Hello there, We're currently in the process of having our flat roof , cross-battened and refelted. There's a skylight, which is held up on a frame supported by wrap-over joist hangers. While removing the old firrings to cross-batten the roofers pulled up the wrap-overs on the joist hangers...

Hello there, We've just moved into a Victorian terrace and the central heating hasn't been touched since the 80s, so we want to upgrade the rads (amongst many many other things). It's three floors, ground (with sub-floor), first and converted loft, and the boiler is on the first floor. The...

Hello there! My partner and I have just bought a Victorian end of terrace, in need of renovation. It has had work done in the 60s, 80s and in 2006. The walls have no cavity and there is a sub-floor space. The dining room has some damp issues, around the outside wall and on the brick wall...

Hello you helpful lot. I'm racking my brains but I can't figure out how to connect this stopcock to 22mm copper pipe at either end. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ohjp4ul4c2t3dfr/AAB-_to__9PYEhS-Xj6wUCCya?dl=0 I'm trying to make a novel set of kitchen taps ( feel free to take the mick ) but...

Hi all I'm fiitting a new kitchen and thought I'd take the opportunity to move the cooker socket into a more practical position in the process. Currently the cooker is wired to a plug which is plugged into the socket of a Cooker Control Unit. I have read that ideally the cooker should be...

Hi.. just a simple question. Does the lockshield valve go on the flow or return end of a radiator or does it not matter? Thanks Dan

Hi all I would like to install a radiator andwould like to know if it is acceptable to have 2 radiators in parallel coming from the same 15mm pipe from the flow and return. To make it clearer. My current situation is as in Fig_1 below. The layout and size of radiators etc is roughly to...

I want to move a radiator from on wall to another, removing the existing pipework and putting in new. The below image shows pretty much what I want to achieve. First things first: I am very new to this lark...I have tons of common sense (don't believe my girlfriend she's lying) but am...