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Happy New Year. We are in the last stages of doing our kitchen. It has been plastered with 1st fix electrics and plumbing. Could someone advise on the best order to do things please. 1. Flooring (should this go over the whole floor and fitted base units over top or after the units?)...

Hi We are doing our ground floor kitchen in our 1900 terraced house. We have knocked out chimney breats through to the brick lean to room behind existing kitchen. What is the thickness of plasterboard required by building regs we need to use on the ceiling between the existing kitchen and...

Hello I am interested in using schlegel aquamac for our outward opening french doors, which seems to be very good stuff. How does one know which profile to use for which type of door? Also is there anywhere it can be purchased in less than 10m lengths? Should it be intalled by a joiner? Is...

Perfect thank you. Just one more question for a 2.5m joist span how much overlap and what spacing of the bolts please? Thanks Dominique

Hi We need to replace the rotten ends of floor joist in our first floor bathroom. Is there a recommended size of bolt for this purpose? And would dog toothed timber connectors be necessary? Thanks

It is an external wall, is single skin and needs to bought in to be made level with the existing wall. Isn't it better to insulate where you can in order to minimise heat loss in this time of rising energy costs? I was thinking of some sort of insulating board. Do we need a vapour permeable...

The chimney stack had already been removed by previous owners. There is only roofing membrane and above that roof tiles. No loft cavity, or other walls. just roof joists. We had a structural engineer come so that he could drawings for the kitchen and he talked my partner through how to remove...

There is not loft or chimney stack above. Just roof tiles

Hi We have just spent the weekend removing a small chimney breast from our bathroom. We will be eventually taking out the larger one underneath it in the kitchen It is on an external single skin wall which now needs bringing forward about 15cm to be flush with the existing internal wall...

Hello I need to put in thermostatic radiator controls on our central heating system. Does anybody have any tips for the type of thermostatic valves that are best. Also any tips for installing them. Thanks

hi Is it possible to convert a bath mounted victorian style tap shower mixer unit to a wall mounted one instead of buying a whole new unit? Would it be just a question of getting different stems and where would the best place to get these from? thanks

hi We want to move our washing machine from kitchen to bathroom cupboard that houses the gas condensing combi boiler. Is this safe and/or suggestions.

Hi We have just had a series of pine freestanding kitchen cabinets and worktops given to us by a neighbour. He thinks it is treated with Danish oil and wax mixture? The wood is quite dark and we would like to do something to the existing finish to make it lighter. Can we remove the...

Our boiler is located in the bathroom of our house and it has been unseasonably mild for a week or more now. We have the dial that is on the boiler for the central heating set on 2 (highest 6), Where would a frost thermostat be located. I don't think we have on though. I would feel a bit...

TonyW2 What's that? And how would I know I have one? There is a thermostat in the hallway

Hello our central heating comes on of it's own accord. The timer controls are on timer but it is outside the time and the red 'on' indicator light is not illuninated. 1) Boiler make / model (gas or oil) Gas boiler IDEAL Isar 2) What is / is not happening. As above 3) Has ANYTHING...

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Will try that. Thanks Also didn't mention that the status display on front panel has a constant horizontal line and the the burner light seems to be constantly on and blinking. Someone who came to look at it yesterday said that it was probably the heat exchanger was blocked with gunk from...

Thanks for all your replies. I will see what I can do with the HW. :D

Hello Have an 4 year old Ideal Isar gas condensing combi boiler. In the past week the hot water temperature has started to fluctuate between tepid and hot but mostly tepid. Any ideas what might be causing this? Central heating seems fine. Please do not say that Ideal Isar are rubbish as...