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So if the internal pipework won't be cast iron, it will be sufficient to renew the pipe between the outdoor stopcock at the street main and the indoor stopcock and this will improve the flow?

Hello, can anybody help with advice please? We recently had the Water Board out to test our cold water flow as a boiler seller blokies advised that it wasn't sufficient for a combi boiler, which I want to put in to lose the hot water tank to make space for a shower cubicle. The test showed...

Come on, somebody help me!

Can anybody tell me exactly what product or products to use to bring about at least approximately the same finish to the display interior doors which at B&Q are displayed pretreated but the ones you buy are untreated? I've tried asking twice at B&Q and the most inventive answer I've been...

Nobody can tell me anything about this then?

I'm wanting to put boarding on the loft floor for storage, but am strengthening the existing 3x2 (75x50) joists of what will be the floor with another 3x2 on top and fastened to the two floor purlins about a third of way in from the bottom of the roof with joist hangers. I'm doing this so it...

Re using fibre wool - surely if you do that then the fibre wool is going to spring up and fill the whole 150 deep space formed by the chipboarding above and the ceiling below, which would, would it not, have two implications, 1) that it would be in contact with the electrical cabling even if...

I am doing a boarding out the loft for basic storage project. The floor/ceiling below joists are 75mm deep by 50mm wide and I am putting the same on top of them to make 150mm deep by 50mm wide (rough equivalent to 6x2) fastened at each end to 8x2 purlins set into the left and right walls. I...

Ok ok, points taken. It's a plywood sub-floor to be primed before taking 30x30 floor tiles. I'm sure I said all this in my original post. So, having read all the above, I am going to take the Unibond adhesive and Unibond PVA back to B&Q and I am now looking at BAL adhesives and BAL Prime...

Well before I saw your reply I've now bought Unibond flexible wood and concrete floor adhesive/grout (more expensive than Wickes and B&Q own brands) and it says clearly on the instructions on that tub to use Unibond PVA to bond the plywood surface, so I've got some of that too. Everything...

Got 18mm ply sub-base down, tiling tonight with 30x30 ceramic tiles and Wickes' flexible adhesive/grout and PVA etc. Simple question - how long before it can be walked on?

Did you smash it?

So when you say "floorboarding" is one of the options over the base layer, are you saying that the boarding itself affords a level of insulation. Having seen all the answers, my inclination is to put a 100mm base layer between the floor joists, which with two 3x2s on top of each other =...

What are the implicatioins for ventilation from the eaves if you intend to to put a stud partitition a few feet in from the eaves where the floor purlins are? That's going to close the main loft space off at above floorboard level to the eaves innit? Is eaves ventilation for that loft space...

Surely lying cables on top of insulation is the same fire risk as laying underneath on the ceiling below? If they are touching the rockwool and heat up they can still be the fire risk? Isn't the best way to conduit them?

On top of them, along their length, not at right angles, and then hung from the floor purlins at each end from joist hangers and tied together in the middle both sides with 4-hole long thin repair plates.

I'm going to reinsulate my roof space during the current project to board the loft out for light storage. I know that the recommended depth of the final insulation is 270mm with two layers of insulation laid both ways, but with my strengthened floor joists (new 3x2s on top of existing 3x2...

There isn't room in my 2-bed terrace for another fixed staircase!

So you saying that for a storage conversion, ie just floor, I shouldn't need planning or building regs?

I have noted that planning consent is not normally required subject to not exceeding certain limits etc and also that Building Regs only needed if you intend to make what the YouGov page I read calls "liveable space". However, what constitutes "liveable space"? What I am driving at is, is...