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Hi all, Hope someone can answer a quick question for me. Am I right in thinking that an UFH manifold assembly and pump assembly are typically 210mm centres? So a measurement taken from the centre of the feed fitting to the centre of the return fitting should be 210mm? I've just had a Reliant...

Just to update where things ended up - we did raise it with the fitters the next morning, and the fella looked at it and immediately went, "Oh yes, you're right!". Somehow they fixed it, and the door is now centred (I imagine there was enough of the frame behind the render to shift it across...

Oh that's a good point! We're pretty much decided as soon as they show up tomorrow, we'll just be straight up with it. "Went out last night, came back, and noticed it pretty much immediately. It's a good 2cm off of centre, and we're pretty disappointed with it." A decent explanation as to why...

I'm not keen to start messing too much with it when I've potentially got to have a chat with them tomorrow first thing, but I've just prodded a thin bit of metal into the foam hard up against the wall and it's gone in the thickness of the door - I'm pretty confident there's nowt behind that...

That's all brand new - the previous door was a wooden door in a wooden frame. I'm having a dim moment here I think - could you please explain where you're seeing that? I'm following the lines down from the brick arch and to the brickwork underneath, and they seem pretty straight and even to my...

It was pretty much back to brick, the whole thing's been replaced. It looks the same from the inside, 2cm difference vs side to another.

Hi there, Am I being unreasonable in thinking this is not acceptable? New front door has been fitted today, and it looks about 1.5 - 2cm away from centre. :( The same people are here tomorrow to replace our two front bay windows, and I'm starting to worry they'll bodge the whole thing. What's...

Hi all, Hope someone can offer me some advice, I feel like I must've done something wrong but struggling to work it out! Bare plaster wall, that's had previous coat of paint scraped off (badly, but it's off). Because there're a few nicks from the scraper, I've filled these in using this...

It is indeed a load bearing wall - span looks like it's about 4m. So we'd turn a roughly 3m x 2.6m dining area into a 3.8m x 2.6m? Another issue we'd have with an extension is we're on a floodplain, so from what our neighbours are doing it looks like foundations get expensive. We're guessing...

Evening all, Hopefully this is the right place for this, and someone can give us some thoughts on this one - we're in a pretty modest 1930s semi detached, we've knocked through the teeny-tiny galley kitchen and dining room at the back of the house, but we're still left with what feels like a...

Hi all, I read once many moons ago that you aren't supposed to use board adhesive right up to the edge of the board, this means that where two boards meet there isn't any adhesive across the joint. Just curious what the reason for this is? I assume (wrongly it seems) that compound across...

Hi all, I've got a mid-1930s semi with a back door and, around 1 meter next to it, a 2 meter sliding patio door. Originally these doors were in separate rooms which have since been knocked together, so we'd now like to replace the door with a window, so that we can place our kitchen sink...

D'oh! Might help if I give my source URL: http://www.eandstile.net/category/wood-tile/up-cycled/ This is the website I got the image from, these guys are based in the US, I might just be brassy and contact them to find out how they get the finish. What do you think, are they likely to tell...

Hi all, An update - the deed is done! (pretty much). In the end I decided to do the job in two sections - the chimney opening I've extended "properly" by using bricks from a neighbour's demolition project, removing alternate bricks up each side of the fireplace (with props to support above...

That is a very good point. :? That, and the fact that we originally had our heart set on sliding doors, which of course wouldn't work like this! This is gonna take some more thought I think, darn it. Russ

Hi all, As you may have seen in my other thread, I'm looking at doing something with wood tiles, and have just seen the exact finish I want - it's a very (VERY) light finish, but still shows a grain. Anyone got any idea what wood this is (the grain looks like oak to me?), and how it's...

Hi all, I want to make something like this to use as a cabinet door covering: Would this be something a beginner could achieve? I'm thinking I'd: Buy some planks of wood the same thickness Trim a couple down to get a variety of widths Chop the planks into bits of varying length...

Again thanks all for your help, I've got a builder doing the lintel work for me on the existing chimney, then it'll be full steam ahead for myself! Russ :)

I like the metal studwork idea - so the idea is I could attach these metal studs to the face of the existing brickwork, and then board over the studs? Are these the kind of things I'm after? However I'm still concerned about using plasterboard directly above the wood burner, for example the...

Blimey - would never have thought of using a plug cutter to get a screw out before! It'd do the job alright, but they cut pretty chunky holes - probably a cm across? Not sure how you'd fill that hole again so that it'd be any use helping to hold up a door. Russ