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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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

Right, here's the thing. I know v.little about central heating, so forgive me if I ask questions of the sucking eggs variety, but... I have a Glowworm boiler. It's old. It's not a condensing, combi, whatever you call it, and there is a hot water tank in the airing cupboard etc. I have...

My central heating system is a normal old fashioned one, ie not combi or condensing boiler. It's a glowworm boiler. I know nothing about how central heating works but I can see that there's the pop-out switch on the boiler and there's the on and off switch on the boiler (both under the slide...