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Please bare with me as without photo's this may be a bit difficult to describe. Planning to decorate an attic room and make it feel as light and airy as possible. The front wall of the room is vertical for 2 metres, then has about 3 foot of sloping (45 degrees?) to a beam. The rear wall...

Hi, I have a slope on my attic floor either side of a brick supporting wall. Its an old conversion so the joists and as big as they shuld be, so the floor is a bit wonky. I've seen loads of terraced houses like this. Anyway, I know I could use self levelling compound, but would laying sheets...

I need a door of none standard measurements. It needs to be 2040 * 675. I can get 2040 * 726. Can I get away with taking an inch of either side? Many thanks

I've been fitting plasterboard to some stud walls in my house. Its the first time I've done it and a couple of the screws near the edges / corners have crushed the plasterboard slightly. Does it really matter? Also there are some slight overlaps in a couple of places where bits of the...

Once my house gets warm the (combi C&M Britony combi SE)boiler seems to get lazy. It will turn itslef on every few minutes but a couple of hours after the house has warmed up it gets cooler but boiler doesn't seem to kick in again unless I turn the heat setting on the boiler all the way off and...

Fitted all the rads with £7 jobbies but not convinced they work, I'm guessing you get what you pay for. But why would I need a room thermostat as well as TRVs? Does the room stat determine the overall output of the boiler for the whole system and then you use TRVs to fine tune this on a...

Posted in Tools forum but thought it would be relevant here. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=150939 Basically the dry wall bit doesn't fit into the end, but even if it did t wouldn't grip it very well. Why would this be any different to a regular screwdriver bit holder? Thanks

I bought a drywall bit with a depth stop. I also bought the bit holder to go with it - https://www.bargaintools.co.uk/store/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=23&products_id=2019&osCsid=c2df1866f79fc2d93c528f66606f5308 The bit won't go into the holder and didn't come with any insrtuctions...

I am refurbishing an attic bedroom. I have removed the old radiator and run new piping to the opposite side of the room where the new radiator is to go. The new piping is already conencted to the system. I am moving the radiator to make better use of the space. As the room is going to be...

My combi boiler (Chaffoteux & Maury Britany Combi SE) has fairly basic controls. Not sure I need it, but is adding a programmer like this http://www.screwfix.com/prods/11225/Plumbing/Central-Heating-Controls/Horstmann-Centaurplus-C27-Programmer a DIY job or is it a pro job? Many thanks

I've laid some flooring boards in the eaves either side of my attic room. I want to enclose it to keep dust levels down. The lining will go from the floor-boards up to the rafters mounted on battens and then screwed to the underside of the rafters. I was thinking of hardboad because its...

After disassembling a couple of elbow joints to perfect the pipe lengths / layout, the pipe inserts have stayed in the elbow. I've pulled the collet but they're not coming out. Any ideas?

We have very thin walls in the house and hear quite alot of what goes on next door. We're planning to re-plaster the bedroom and was thinking of using this. Most of the information sugggests putting in a wall that is in no contact with the other wall. We can't afford to lose this much space...

To keep the door shut I need to lift the lever upwards. Same style front door stays shut when you push it to. Is it easy to fix the latch so it shuts without having to lift the handle?

I want to put a door in for my attic room. As far as I can see (before ripping out plaster in the hallway) there is a solid wooden post about 2-3 steps up the twisting stairs. This would be the easiest place to mount it. This is 6" shorter than a standard door. I've read that you shouldn't...

I'm re-positioning a radiator in my attic. Rather than lift all the floorboards I only lifted a couple and fed the pipe under the floor from one end of the room to the other. It took a lot of wiggling and pushing in places but now its in, not yet connected to central heating. I noticed quite...

Hi, my lounge gets much colder than other rooms in the house. I have been told that insulating the floor will help as it is above the cellar. Will this help keep the room warm? As heat rises...? I'm aware that I need to keep the floor joists ventilated, but surely its no different to...