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Hi, Does anyone know if some form of space heating is required by building regs in an en-suite WC. It will be a room built in a bedroom containing just a WC and sink and it will be 1m x 1.2m. Some online calcs say you need around 150watts or 400 BTUs for a room that size, but is one...

Hi, I've seen electric heating elements that you insert into towel radiators but can the same elements be used for a standard panel radiator if for example running the F&R to it was impossible? Just wondering. Thanks Mike

I have had a certificate of lawfulness approved for a single storey extension. The extension is 50mm away from my attached neighbour boundary and we have a jointly owned fence between us right on the boundary. We sent them a party wall notice as we thought that was the correct thing to do...

Hi, I have just started to install my Cooke and Lewis kitchen but had a few problems. The clad on panels were on a long lead time so I opted to have colour matched end panels instead. They came quickly but the cooke and lewis shelf pack doesn't fit an IT appliance side panel so I had to buy...

I've just finished laying my patio (bradstone buff) on a full mortar bed and I'm ready to grout/point, 10mm gap. I'm only an ameture so want it to be fairly easy. I've read up loads on dry mixes, wet mixes, geo-fix etc. but I'm just so concerned on staining. I've seen people using a...

Im going to have a ceiling mounted speaker system in my house which includes the radio unit to be installed in the ceiling void. Its about the size of a transformer and fits through the hole for the speaker so its accessible. The unit has a plug top and as you cant have a socket in the ceiling...

I'm about to set out the rafters on a new extension. The roof will have a Velux M06 window so I want to set out the rafters to suit. I have the insructions for the Velux GGL but they show 4 different opening at section 4. Sections 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d. I can see 4c and 4d are for different...

Hi, Having an extenstion built at the moment and already have an insulated slab down. To get up to FFL I will need approx 60mm of screed but as I understand it takes 1 day per 1mm to dry. I really don't want to wait 60 days before I can start to fit my new kitchen so I am looking for an...

I'm building an extension and need a door and a window. I have planned them to be standard "off the shelf" sizes with a door height of 2100mm and a window height of 1050mm so they fit to the brick courses. I've looked at B&Q and found the perfect size door and window except the height is...

Hi, I'm looking to buy a house but the owner is a smoker and the whole house stinks of smoke. I would plan to replace all flooring but is there a paint product available that I can just paint all the walls and ceilings with that will block all odour and stains before I paint a final top...

I'm looking to move house but I need to be able to convert the garage of the new house. The area I'm looking at has had permitted development removed and planning permission is required. I know I will need 2 off road parking spaces but there seems to be a grey area in the policies. The...

Hi, I'm looking to have a 10.5kw electric shower installed. Its a Triton shower and the instructions state I need a RCD and a 45amp MCB. My consumer unit is the old re-wireable fuse wire type so I plan to have a new consumer unit put in. I will be getting an electrician to install the...

A friend of mine is building an extension and the foundations will cross a public sewer line. The sewer pipe is about 2.3m deep and the foundations have been dug down to the invert level of the pipe. Shuttering was used either side of the sewer pipe, approx 150mm either side, and then the...

I have a showerforce turbo 2 pump in my loft. It was already installed when I moved in. There was some spluttering and assumed air lock issues so I installed a surry flange to the top of the tank and this seems to have sorted it. After I found the instructions for this pump it suggests...

OK, so the topic of boarding over insulation has been covered lots but my main observation is people have recommended cross-batterns of around 50 - 100mm so you don't compress the insulation. In my loft my rafters (trussed) are 70mm deep so with 270mm of insulation I would have to use 200mm...

I've after a desktop socket or even one of thoes pop-up sockets but they are very expensive, even on ebay. All I need is a switched double socket above the desk that can plug into the wall socket below the desk. I've thougth of a switched extension gang but I do like the pop-up or desk top...

Hi, Recently my toilet cistern fails to fill now and again after a flush unless I do 1 of the following - Turn on the cold tap in the bathroom briefly or Turn on the cold tap in the kitchen briefly or Take the lid off the cistern and slightly nudge the fill valve. Any ideas...

I'm putting in a gravel path in my garden. I have dug a trench 100mm deep and the width I want and then framed the edge of the trench with wooded pegs and treated timber (gravel board). I haven't done anything else yet but when it rains heavily, the end of the proposed path fills with water...

I'm interested where trades get their material costs from. If for example I ask a builder to quote for an extension. They will know what their labour will be but where do they get their material costs from. I asume they have a price list or something they use as I doubt they would spend the...

Very quick question on upgrading existing single skin external wall when converting a garage. I have had several conflicting info. Which is the correct way, working from the outside in.. External Brick Painted on "Black jack" DPM or equiverlant 3x2 studs with 100mm rockwool insulation...