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Thanks. Forgot to mention that it is a conservation area that I'm referring to.

Is there a statutory period that a planning application needs to be displayed adjacent to the planned developement site or does it vary from council to council.

What kind of draught excluder is this. It seems to have a "V" shape profile which allows the side of the door to compress it when shut. Was installed with the wooden door about 11 years ago. I've searched online , but cannot find anything resembling it.

I have to admit that the thought has crossed my mind:sneaky:

I've installed a waterproof canopy over my back door. I would quite like to add some half size guttering to it. The easiest thing to do would be to run the pipe straight into the existing waste pipe on the wall. However, my understanding is that you cannot divert rain water straight into the...

That's kind of reassuring. My fear was that the damp proof course had failed and that rising damp was causing the mould.

2017-11-15 14.36.00 by roofmog posted 15 Nov 2017 at 3:33 PM Lifted some old vinyl flooring to replace with new, and discovered this. Although there is a lot of mould, there is no actual sign of water. It appears to follow the line of where a new concrete slab was joined to the original many...

I'm planning to paper one of external walls in the living room of my cottage. It has only ever been painted before. It doesn't seen to suffer from damp as it has had a chemical damp proof course injected in the past, but it is quite hard to tell as it can get very cold to touch in winter and it...

Thanks for the replies. I guess its skirting first.

Papering a new wall. Should I fit the skirting first and cut the paper to it, or do the papering and fit the skirting on top.

Predictive text strikes again. I actually meant "over painting", although I probably am over paying as well. Thanks for the reply.

I'm overpaying with Dulux quick dry satinwood. It suggests applying two coats. Should I lightly sand between coats, as the instructions do not suggest this, and I have not worked with satinwood before?

I'm considering installing some DryRod damp proofing rods in the external wall of the living room in my Victorian end of terrace. However, the installation instuctions require 12mm wide and 180mm deep holes to be drilled every 12cm into the mortar. I'm a bit concerned that this would start to...

Thanks for all the replies. I opted to try and use the existing socket first, and the cables went into the connectors without any problem. I just loosened the connectors off slightly and the new cable slid in easily. I guess I was helped by the fact that the existing cables were coming in at the...

It is a double, but I share your concern. What I'd really like to do is remove the double switched socket, connect everything up with some 30 amp connector block and fit a blanking plate over the backbox. However I'm not sure that regulations permit this, particularly in terms of indicating that...

Are you saying that I can safely spur twice from the same socket? There seems to be a lot of conflicting opinions about this. The frustrating thing is that once I put in the additional socket, the original one will be surplus to requirements, so there is no real increase to the load on the system.

It is a fairly old system that still uses fuse wire and holders. However the whole thing is protected by a 30mA RCD. All the power sockets in the house (there are only 8 ) are covered by one 30 amp fuse. 3 separate sets of twin and earth run from this. The cable that I could fully trace feeds...

Now that I've actually come to do this it has all got a bit more complicated. The existing socket has three sets of cables connected to it, so presumably is part of a ring main and has already been spurred off from and therefore I cant just spur off to create an additional outlet. I don't...

Great. Thanks for the link, very useful.