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We have recently had gas installed and want to replace our hot water cylinder and immersion heater with a gas fired hot water system. Our existing central heating is by electric storage radiator and we are keeping that as it is. The boiler would therefore be for hot water only. We have...

Our house originally had a flat roof, about 25 years ago a new pitched roof was built, with the old flat roof left in situ. Shortly after the new roof was fitted I constructed a model railway room up there, 7ft wide down the centre of the roof space. I removed the old roofing in this section to...

I want to replace our porch door (the internal door from the house to the porch). The existing door is 838mm wide by 42mm thick in a door frame with a 45mm rebate. The door is part glazed. As the house was built in 1967, would this be regarded as a fire door? I`m not sure about regulations...

I am thinking of recladding our outhouse as the timber has shrunk so much that rain blows in through the gaps. It`s clad with verticle tongue and groove boards aprox 110mm wide by 15mm thick. Each board has chamfered edges, so the effect is a V between board joints. The house (and the outhouse)...

We have an Economy 7 supply which I thought meant that you had 7 consecutive hours of off peak electricity during the night. I have just discovered that our supply switches to off peak at 10.30pm and then back to normal rate at 7.30am. This means that for 2 hours during the night the supply is...