Search results

Hi I'm trying to get my head around the bannister wall of my stairwell opening. Our loft is attic trusses we replaced the entire roof as it was cheaper than converting it. My constant struggle has been getting enough room for a 1700mm Bath in the upstairs bathroom and a reasonable landing...

Hi we have had our front and back gable built up. The nature of construction will be 20mm render/100mm concrete blocks/50mm airgap/13mm osb /4x2 studwork/80mm celotex 13mm osb x2/vapour barrier/plasterboard/skim Now I asked my bricky if he needed 50mm cavity batts, to which he said no. Just...

We are having a loft conversion, we'll actually we are replacing the entire bungalow roof with attic Trusses. The room void is built into the truss. I've attached the layout drawing. My question Is would there be a issue raising the outside plates by 4" plus 18mm. My existing ceiling joists...

Axetoxy silicon has rusted out this bath hole. New bath required!!

As per the title 3k seems to cheap for an installed P. V system and invertor and 8 panels. What's the catch? We recently sent you an email with your Solar Together personal recommendation. Our winning installer EEC Solar is offering a discount of 39% compared to the typical market price for a...

I vaguely remember there being a planning issue with small houses on big plots if the house is smaller than 85sq metres you cannot demolish it and build a larger dwelling. But I cannot seem to find any details of this presumption on google

Hi I'm managing a refurbishment of a 3 bed semi detached house. It has a shared flat roof at ground level over downstairs bathroom. The snag list has picked up the aesthetic nature of the roof. It's not leaking however the grey resin has large cracks and valleys in it down to the baseboard. The...

Hi all ive aqquired a 3kw commercial 600mm Lincat griddle. Unfortunately we cleaned it up before fully testing it. It runs of a 13amp plug. At first i had it plugged into my shed circuit which is on a 16 amp radial fed from my garage. It would trip the Rcbo after about 2 minutes, this would...

As per the topic my garage block has currently 2 normal wired swann 720 cameras. After advice from here i bought a hikvision turbo 8 channel dvr and a purple hd. They work very well and the user interface is very intuitive. My garage is fed by a 10mm armoured from the house it is quite a...

I got given a 900mm Upvc fully glazed door which I have fitted into a brick opening through a wall into back of my garage. I've fitted the frame Plumb and straight. However the door is catching on the bottom left. It will close but needs a good nudge to shut it. The door hinge mechanisms are...

Hi I need to replace the body of one if not both of these deck mounted mixers. They just do a single shower handset. The packing gland was leaking I went to undo it and the nut sheered of (below the shroud).

Hi all, I'm confused with the whole tax issue and when you file returns and pay tax. I'm a basic rate taxpayer even with my rental income £10.5 k rental. I became a landlord in June 2015. As I understand it we are currently in the 2014 tax year. The 31st January filings are for 2014. I will have...

I have 2 swann 720 cameras I'm looking at getting maybe some more ptz models. Iniatly I was going to.put up the cameras as fakes but I'm now looking to go the whole hog. Have been.looking at the swann DVR9-1425 /4400 models etc. But there seems to.be very poor reviews on the latest swann models...

I am trying to get a answer to a question. We have a one way country lane near us probably about 250 mtrs is one way. It's very narrow with steep banks. Has four width restriction 6ft 6" gates. There has been 2 deaths on this road over the years. Hence why it is now one way. When I was a kid...

We are in the planning stages of a single storey side and rear extension. However we have a 6" sewer than runs across and under the proposed footprint. I believe only 1 house feeds in then we feed in then it goes along our boundary then does a right angle behind 5 other houses. We have 2...

zanussi zwd1270s wont dry no heat hi all yup my washer dryer is playing up, no fault codes everything appears to work in drying mode eccept no heat. Element tripped? machine is about 4 years old any appliance repair guys who now what there doing with zanussi cover the woking area gu22?