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Hey everyone, We had a new combi boiler (Ideal Logic Combi 35) installed with a magnetic filter (Ferrox TF1) about 5 years ago. At the time the system was apparently powerflushed by the installer (it was definitely drained, as i guess it needs to be, but the plumber was not very...

Hey everyone, I have a large wall at the end of my garden that i want to paint (as it's made of horrible yellow bricks that aren't nice at all!) We are planning to use Little Greene masonry paint ( http://www.littlegreene.com/paint/finish/masonry ) as we've used LG inside and the colours and...

Hey everyone, We had some (rather shoddy!) builders doing some work in our property including fitting a new window. We have had various problems with the builders and they have left having fitted the window and filled the exterior edges with expanding foam but they haven't actually finished...

Hey everyone, I have recently been putting up a number of large mirrors and pictures in our house. For the mirrors i have used j-hooks (similar to http://www.southbankart.co.uk/j-hooks.html) and these work well and feel much more secure than just using screws. I have a large picture (i...

Hey everyone, We have been renovating our house for the last year or two and are finally getting towards finishing (or so we thought!) We have just had an electrician round to add a couple of sockets having had 'most' of the wiring redone last year by a different qualified electrician who...

Hi everyone, We have recently redone our bathroom and have had a custom cabinet made to sit on top of a ledge (underwhich is the pipework for the toilet/sink etc). You can see this in the attached pic. Unfortunately the top of the front side of the ledge (which is tiled in white moleanos...

Hi everyone, We are currently trying to replace our front door and wanted some help! We live in a victorian terraced house in east london and want to replace the current horrible 80s front door with a restored or new victorian 4 panel door with 2 glazed panels at the top similar to...

Hey everyone, We had a new central heating system installed a few months ago with a new combi boiler (Ideal) and new pipework and radiators (from Selco). One of the rads (possibly more but this is the only one i've noticed) makes a quiet whistling sound every now and then and the only way to...

Hey everyone, We are renovating our Victorian terraced house in London and have sanded the old pine boards on the ground floor. We have tried a multitude of varnishes, lacquers, oils and waxes to try and find a finish we like which hasn't been massively successful (want something very natural...

Hey everyone, We are putting a stainless steel towel radiator into our bathroom which is being redone. I bought a chrome TRV from Screwfix over the weekend (http://www.screwfix.com/p/danfoss-ras-d-chrome-trv-8-10-15mm-angled-l-s/88443) which is fine but it's quite long (like most TRVs!) and I...

Hey everyone, We are currently renovating our 3 bed Victorian terraced house in London and are about to replace the fireplaces. There were 3 old 1970s fireplaces (lovely brown tiled things!) which we have now removed. We have had all of the chimneys swept and got the certificates and they are...

Hey everyone, We are currently renovating our house and have had a new combi system put in and are about to replace all of the radiators. The room stat is (in theory) going in the sitting room/dining room (which used to be two rooms but we've taken down the adjoining wall, so there's now 2...

Hey everyone, We are currently renovating our c.1900 Victorian terraced house in London. We have stripped out the entire property and are sanding the pine floorboards on the ground floor. The master bedroom will have painted floorboards and everywhere else (apart from the kitchen/bathroom!)...

Hey everyone, We are in the process of renovating our victorian terraced house and have sanded the floors on the ground floor which are old pine boards. We obviously need to seal them but i order to keep them light we would like a completely clear varnish/laquer/oil in order not to colour the...

Hey everyone, We are having a new kitchen fitted in a few months but don't currently have a proper fridge or freezer so wanted to buy an integrated one we can use now and then fit into the kitchen rather than buying two. It will be using IKEA base cabinets and the fridge freezer will be...

Hey everyone, We are redoing our bathroom and want to put in a wall hung toilet. The bathroom is already relatively small and we want to make the frame and concealed cistern as thin as possible so the boxing in isn't too deep. It's against an external wall of the house so can be attached...

Hey everyone, Myself and my girlfriend have just bought a victorian terraced house in Stoke Newington, London (in the borough of Hackney) and want to do a side return extension to increase the size of the kitchen. I have spoken to Hackney Planners to try an establish if this can be done under...

Hey everyone, My girlfriend and I have just bought a new house and we have a cold water tank in the loft. Whenever we have a bath or a shower and use a significant amount of cold water the overflow from the tank starts pouring out water because the ball float does not seem to float properly...

Hey everyone, Myself and my girlfriend have just bought a Victorian house in Hackney, London (standard 3 bedroom, 2 storey house). It has a very small patio (about 12 feet long) with a recording studio at the end of the patio (the end of our patio is a 13 ft high wall of the recording...

Hey everyone, My girlfriend and I are in the process of buying a victorian terraced house in Stoke Newington, London (borough of Hackney) to live in. We are going to submit a preplanning application to see if there's any likelihood of getting permission to convert it into 2 flats (for various...