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Hi, having new kitchen in my garage conversion... On left hand side will he integrated dishwasher, ajd then fresh air to it's left as a walkway.. The sink will be to the right. What makes the worktop secure? I ask as bar one end panel c18mm, and a thin back panel, it all looks not very rigid...

Hello All We have a 700mm worktop deopth (2.4m length) on order, idea is we get an extra 10cm at the back to put stuff behind sink ect. If the base units are standard depth (wickes), so 570mm, and there is a 20mm overhand at the front, that is 590mm... which then means we end up with c110mm at...

Hi Now I may be being a bit daft here... I was going to have two external solid walls chased inside for cable runs. Instead of me renting chaser tool ect I asked electrician and he said to, 'fit all the battons first and he can chase around them.' It is c21 metres he needs to chase overall...

Hi all Had liquid cement with fibres screed poured on Wednesday this week. Avoided walking on it and all doors ect closed for 2 days, then fx followed advice to now get lots of fresh air moving over it. Dpm, insulation, vapour layer, then this layer, c50mm. I walked on it earlier, and very...

Hi there, picked up 200 of these bricks from reclamation yard, Si logo inside a club, nice looking bricks :) if that is a thing ... . Anyway just checked them and they are c21% on moisture meter. I have them inside garage for now, a dehumidifier on.. What percentage would I need that to drop to...

Hi all So just rechecked and the 3.5metre high ground floor solid wall (1780's wall) I want to internally insulate is 36cm/ 14" thick, that includes c2cm of external render someone put on c30 years ago. Wall in good condition. The wall is lime mortar, at least inside is, so render stops it's...

Hi have a question all on order to do stuff, sorry if obvious question, project is garage conversion, solid wall house, with French doors spanning existing opening where garage door Does below look right order? It's me organising stuff. Floor first Batton external wall, to external openings...

Hi all I have a internal garage, 2.4m wide, in a solid wall building. Aim to brick up one side of the garage to reduce to 1.6m width then fit French doors. Will have bricks cut out from as is, so new bricks merge in. ... The entrance, I will raise by 140mm (as floor goes up by 161mm total}...

Hi all Our solid wall house, the previous owner had stud walls put in with drywall all round the inside, but there is no rock wool or solid insulation in it, just fresh air about 50mm deep all round the house. This might he daft question, but anyway to simply fill the gaps? Or do I need...

Hi there I bought a Hive heating and hot water kit from screwfix, set it all up and seemed fine but hot water and heating came on not as expected e.g. hot water light started heating. I read the hive needs to be set to gravity fed if boiler is gravity fed, how would I know? Boiler must be 25...

Hello Anyone know what pipe is needed below? See photo. A leak started in my worcester bosch 40cdi, dripping below the boiler, the plastic cup. I called out british gas who took off the bit of black tape i stuck on it to stop the leak with silver sticky paper..which later failed. BG person...

Hello everyone! Our house has a greenhouse with socket fitted at least 10, my guess 30 years ago from loking at the metal rust on the socket (its inside a greenhouse). This being connected to mains consumer box which has RCD. All has been fine until quite recently example being using a...

Hi one of these days I will stop looking at things.... I have a double switch - left button turns on ceiling lights (and works currently as expected), and right button on the switch turns on an outside light. No other switches in the house to change these lights. Everything perfect...

SEE MY LATESTPOST AT THE END FIRST FOLKS!!!! Hi all, perhaps below is obvious, any thoughts most welcome :) I had a an electrician fit 4 x 12v halogen ceiling lights a year ago in one room , all bulbs still work, all had separate transformer - kit supplied and fitted by electrician including...

We have for our sins 20 wood sash windows fitted by the previous owner in 2000... They have two sets of thick glazing bars, and sash springs, and on the exterior view are flush with the wall..... and annoy the hell out if me. The main problems since we moved in in 2007 was impossible to...

Hi all In 1971 my detached house was split into up/downstairs for a period. Not now, and new system in place, zoned by floor, new hot water tank, rads ect. We still have: 1 The main cold 15mm stopcock, which is near the kitchen 2 Another 15mm stopcock fitting used to isolate upstairs...

Hi Currently I have a 530cm span / and a three brick course ( i.e. three widthcs so 330mm )solid wall!, supported by: a) a 560cm length steel beam, fitted in 1971, for those interested from a company in Middlesborough according to the writing on the beam. It is one brick course deep, and...

Hi It seems the sbc energy saving bulbs i have seen are just plain ugly and big e.g. daft ones saying Tesco on them. My thought are can I just buy brass ses fittings and swap them so making it easy to not buy ugly lights or overly expensive ones?

Hi all I have 1xmains halogen and want to replace one pendant ceiling fitting on a 6a protected light circuit, which has little to any load on it. Also only two cables coming in, so guessing it's a spur/ end of circuit and one of these two cables is to the switch but cabling does not make...

Hi all A Hot water stopcock has caused damage in the kitchen - the question here is fault, and what I should do next, bar getting a plumber to fix the stopcock damage itself. I noticed today at the bottom of the corner kitchen unit (fitted in 2002, with 15 parts guarantee), a bit of rotten...