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I want to convert a coal chute cover to a window. Has anyone had experience of this? The current cover is on street level and the angled chute flows in to the cellar. The cast iron cover has gaps, which make the cellar very cold and with heavy rainfall small puddles appear at its internal...

2 Storey house. 2 Beds on the first floor and 1 on the ground floor. Do all habitable rooms need to have fire doors, or just the door at the bottom of the stairwell/staircase? Have mains interlinked smoke alarms on hall of each floor and kitchen.

If a ground floor room is used as a bedroom, does the window still need to have a bottom opening as it would on the first floor? It's a 1600mm high at present and has a small top opening, not enough to climb out of. That said, it's door is just off the hall, so maybe the window doesn't need to...

If a property is being purchased directly from a vendor (i.e. not involvement of an estate agent) is an EPC needed?

I'm in the process of purchasing a mid-terrace house which has stonecladding to the front of the property. I've had an independent survey carried out and the assessor noted using his protimeter mini that there were high readings of damp to the front room wall. I think it showed 50 (not sure...

I'm looking at fitting a new alarm to my home and looking at either a Pyronix or Visonic, preferably with a GSM module, as i don't always have broadband/landline. Is there a great difference in quality between these two brands?