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What do you mean by single skinned? Its a normal cavity wall. Does that make a difference?

When I moved house 2 years ago, I wanted to wire a couple of rooms up with ethernet. One of the rooms was my man cave, which is part of an extension that was done long before I moved. I decided I would need to run the cables through the attic to the man cave, but there was a problem; the brick...

Wow, that's expensive. Is there no case for removing and lubricating?

Do you mean the screws on the strip that also have the rivets? I haven't tried removing this strip in case I got into difficulties, and I'm stuck with a door I can't lock! It would just be my luck that it would be full of spring loaded gubbins that spew out everywhere as soon as I undo the...

I moved into my house 16 months ago, and when I moved in the front door lock was sticking. A couple of months later, I decided to replace the eurocylinder type lock. This improved matters, but didn't cure the problem completely. This Yale eurocylinder has only lasted just over a year before...

Definitely not I-beam for loft joists, and I've seen some joists on the ground floor which were not I-beam. Does this mean that it wouldn't be likely that the upstairs joists would be I-beam?

Given all this good information, what would be the best course of action, given that I would rather live with the creaking than go to the trouble of lifting the flooring? Are there reliable ways of remotely detecting live wiring? If the pipes are low enough to not register on a camera, are...

Well, the difficulty lies with the fact that it's not traditional floorboards as such, it's loft flooring sheets, a bit difficult to lift I would have thought. Wiring I am not so worried about, as screwing into them should trip the breaker, and not ruin my day as much as bursting a hot pipe...

Hi, My upstairs floorboards creak a lot, so I want to screw them down. However, I don't want to burst any central heating pipes, so I'd like to know where they are. I figured there might be people on this subforum with experience of thermal imaging cameras. Would these cameras be able to...

Thanks for the replies guys. I used to have a tent, but my camping days are long past, so I've gone with the dowel plan. Hopefully it won't be *too* painful!

This may not be the best subforum for this, but there isn't a perfect fit as far as I can see. I've just moved into a house that has had an extension done. The kitchen has been extended, and above this on the first floor a new bedroom has been added. This will be my man cave. I want to put an...

Hi, I have just purchased a 2 level 4 bedroom detached house, built around 1990, and I would like to install a couple of RJ45 flush fitted face plates in order to neatly network my home. Obviously, I have Wi-Fi, but for streaming video and file server applications, you can't beat a wired...