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Thanks George, my thinking was it wasn't dissimilar to a steel beam and plate across a door/window opening with the plate supporting the outer leaf but having spoken to a structural engineer he said doing it like this would need support under each end of the plate to be stable and counter the...

I used the 80mm version to slot snugly fitting PIR down into the uninsulated sloped sections of our dormer roof via access from the attic above and crawl spaces below. I couldn't have done the job without it as some of the sections were blind one end, some were over 1.5m long, most were slightly...

Hi All Our living room has an unused fireplace I want to form the basis of built in units to one side and a media wall for the TV on the existing chimney breast as it's the ideal place in the room for it, but we'd also like either a wide decorative fireplace or openings underneath the TV across...

Sorry Ive just amended the above slightly as I realised there are purpose made cavity closers for bridging the cavity gap which I aaume I'll need to use and which answered half my question. Anyway, here you go... To keep dust down we had to drill the inside wall which has left it...

Hi All We've recently had french doors fitted into what was a window opening of the same width and I'm doing the making good on the inside. From the old window cill upwards there's virtually nothing to do as the old plaster is intact, but the wall cut down to ground level has obviously left...

Or did you mean two conventional straight rubber couplers with a plastic Tee in between? Both would do the same job I guess, all the suppliers of the flexible tee in the pic above seem to be in the USA anyway, so are they unsuitable for UK building regs or something?

Thanks RHS, I shall investigate, Im assuming you're talking about something like this? Due to its position and having joists in both directions around it, its going to be a pig to cut below bathroom floor level but I could cut the pipe just below ceiling height in the kitchen to give...

Hi Oilman Thanks for that, would you be able to get a seal having cut into it then, I assume by using one of those strap around connectors you can get? Having investigated further this afternoon and had a look under the floorboards though, Im not sure there's a lot I can do with it anyway...

Hi All We're just about to embark on putting a new bathroom suite in, and I've spotted a potential issue. Our soil pipe runs internally down the corner of the house, boxed in obviously. The existing toilet in the bathroom is a P trap with a 90 degree horizontal pipe that goes straight into...

Hi Simon Many thanks for that, I did read about your mention of an essex boss to make a pocket but the thought of cutting the tank put me off! Regarding controls, my plan was to get a VRC430 and thats what I'll probably do in time anyway, but there were none in the country when we ordered...

Hi All We've just had a 618 Ecotec Plus installed with VR65 and VRT360 controls connecting to a regular copper vented tank. When installing, our electrician connected up a generic Honeywell tank stat to the VR65 in the usual manner, but whilst browsing some threads on here yesterday, I saw...

Cheers for the info chaps. Dave, I'm sure you're right regarding his experience with Vaillants and in an ideal world I'd obviously prefer someone who knows them inside out as some of you guys seem to, but finding such a person locally seems to boil down to pure luck, so without spending...

Thanks so more along my lines of thought then. We'll be replacing the existing tank as its well past its sell by date anyway, looking at around 150-180L capacity vented tank I believe, we only have one bathroom and rarely use the bath, just shower which is currently electrically heated but may...

Been there, done that unfortunately, I've had 3 other quotes and was utterly unimpressed by all of them to the point of being disillusioned with the whole exercise, for example one was quoting to supply a Ferroli because "its just as good as anything available on the market" yet the price didn't...

Hi All We're about to get our old back boiler replaced with a system boiler, Ive found an RGI who's been recommended to me by family and he's given us an estimate we're happy with, but although he's made a suggestion, he's left it to me to ultimately decide on the make and size of boiler...

This was the bit I read as float / skim being twice as expensive as existing skim, but I didn't then read this bit properly that also mentioned the relative cost of dot & dab... Don't worry, it was me not you :)

Many thanks again Richard, sorry for misunderstanding, when you said float/skim was 2x more expensive I thought you were comparing against what I had done previously, going over existing plaster etc rather than dot/dab then skimming :) Sounds like I need to pester the builders to find out...

Hi Richard, thanks for the comments. The dividing wall will be studwork and I assume the ceiling will already be in place with plasterboard, but those combined probably only accounts for around 25% of the area to be covered. I wasnt sure if dot & dabbing plasterboard would be included in the...

Thanks for the info Richard, that may explain some of the price increase over what we had done before. Thinking about it though, Id have thought the utility will be plasterboarded internally first woudlnt it, so would it still need the two coats?

Roy, I could do that yes, but as I'd be asking them to quote with the intention of them possibly doing the work, they're unlikely to give me a rough idea without coming round to look at the plans etc, and I don't wan't to waste their time at this stage when all I want is a ballpark figure which...