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Yeah, I don't even have a drill let alone a jig. Me ex has all my old stuff and has made it clear it's staying with her even thou she can't change a fuse. Not that I had a jigsaw anyway. Closest I've ever had is a hand saw. Anyway, thanks for the advice. Looks like I'm best off scrapeing the...

The property is old and was rented out for many years by the previous owner who by the looks of the place when I bought it (dirt cheap) had not been very kean on maintaining the property correctly for their tennants. This was not a problem at first as I had a good friend who was a qualified...

Hi, I'm going to retile a section of my bathroom as current tiles are coming off the wall and can't use shower without water getting down behind said tiles, soaking the floor under the bath and then into the ceiling of the room below. Anyway, I've never tiled before so I'm thinking I'll trall...

Cool, thanks. Got it. Now I just need some smallish pieces of PIR! No room for overlap above the board/hatch actual size due to surrounding joists.

Ah, well to be a batten is a small strip of wood but I've never claimed to know much about DIY. Anyway here are some pics

Ah, they are just push up hatches, wooden boards resting on a frame built into the ceiling between joists, no downwards slanting. I would be accessing the hatch by bracing my telescopic ladder against a wall and bottom of the frame (plenty of frame for this), climbing up and just pushing the...

I like the idea of that! What would you recommend for the draft proof seal? And when you say glue some insulation on the back would say 50mm of Quintherm/Kingspan or similar product do the trick with a load of super glue or would a different insulator/glue be better? It sounds like a lot less...

Hi, I just bought a split level flat. An oldish, probably 20's or 30's build hotel that was converted into flats some 30+ years ago. I'm top floor. I have two loft hatches, just wooden boards resting on a frame. Cant measure them properly atm as I lack a ladder (but I've bought a telescopic one...

Ah! The correct way to do it!

Okay, thanks for that. How would I make a little horizontal section? Out of interest?

I won't do it again! But what about the expanding foam?

Membrane, just forgot the technical term.

Hi, I paid a friend to insulate my loft and he has left it partially done and will not answer the phone or email so I'm going to have to finish it myself. He fitted quintherme boards between the rafters leaving the required gap between the end of the insulation and the 'felt' and then...

Cheers Joe, I did google it after I posted and have already returned the chair to the attic! But many thanks for your trouble.

I found a wooden directors chair in a skip and took it home. It ended up in the garden shed for a few weeks and then as I still needed to get a back for it I stuck it in the attic. As I was walking past it (the attic is boarded out) I noticed a small pile of sawdust and when I looked closely...

Hello everyone! I'm living as a lodger with an old friend of mine and her Cannon Traditional 1000 range cooker has a small problem! The little red light on the front of the cooker that comes on when you turn the fan oven on and then goes out when its at temperature has stopped working. I am...