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Can any of you please help me with some advice. I am a pensioner with little money and need a cheap solution if possible. I have a Victorian house with a smallish 18" wide fireplace. It has a tiled and wood fireplacensurround. I have bought a small stove which says 450mm to combustible...

I have a Victorian house with a big roof which is in not brilliant condition. Some of the tiles have deteriorated on the edges and a few are broken. Because there is not any underfelt I can access the roof from inside the loft space. I intend to inspect the roof with binoculars from accross the...

Can you please give me some advice. I have a large Victorian semi. The roof is rosemary tiles. Not been replaced in 115 years. No underfelt. I cannot afford a re-roof (I am a pensioner). I am proposing to: Buy some 'airtec' insulation - silver foil bubble wrap type stuff that looks as if it...

in my bathroom i have pullcord switch which switches both the light on and the fan (in parallel) i wish to remove the wiring. the pullcord switch has the lighting ring going into it. and then a wire going to the light i am replacing with rcb mains through 3a switched fuse outside bathroom...

in my bathroom which has a big window the wiring is 25 years old the extractor fan (in line about 700mm from vent above shower) is connected in parallel with the bathroom light. so if i switch on the light the fan comes on. is this now illegal? also everything else in the bathroom is on rcd at...

Does anyone know if BCO need to be involved in replacing a wooden joist with an RSJ (se has done calcs)?? Many thanks

i have a loft space bathroom - it comes off of a bedroom (3 storey house) house built in late 1900's. sometime either during the second world war or immediately afterwards the house was converted to flatlets. at the time this loft space was made into bathroom. when i bought house in 1979 the...

i have a low bathroom with a low ceiling - any recommendations on a suitable light fitting. not much room between plasterboard and roofing tiles (4 inches). light switch is outside bathroom in the bedroom