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Hi, I'll soon be fitting a new Morso stove on a plinth in the fireplace. I've already laid down some old 1" thick slate slabs on the plinth, bedded in a sand and cement mix and I now need to grout them. What kind of grout would be best, or would a sand and cement mix be OK? The...

Before I phone Bosch I thought I'd ask here. I tried to switch on the heating for the first time and was given an EA error code: flame not detected. The plumber who fitted it has taken a look and can't see the problem. The boiler is new and yet to be switched on. Any ideas? Many...

I've removed an old gas fire with a backburner from the fireplace. I've now got a large piece of flue sticking out, which I'll leave until I get the stove. But I'm having the chimney stack done and need to know if the present flue will do for a wood fire. I don't know its diameter (I know...

I've just pulled down part of an old stud wall in the bathroom. I want a straight wall down one side, and this part was an inverted corner, In the image below the grey is what I've removed, the green is what's left and the blue is what I want to build. I've managed to remove it...

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Hi all, So my farmhouse renovation is crawling along. Soon after we bought the house, I found an old inglenook fireplace. This had been bricked up and plastered over, with a small modern fireplace built there. It housed a gas fire with a gas back boiler. I removed it as I wanted to try...

Just bought an old farmhouse. The previous owner mentioned that a range cooker was removed from the old kitchen in the 50's, when the estate sold it to her family. We guessed that and old fireplace was behind all the plaster, and thought it would be about 3' by 4' in width and height...

Hi, I've recently bought an old farmhouse, built circa 1880. It's of solid construction (or so my surveyor told me) but with the usual problems of rising damp and woodworm which we're currently sorting. The house has 670mm/26" stone walls, with a centre 340mm/13" wall which runs parallel...