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Hi, I'm trying to change our "office with a bed in it" back to a "spare room with a desk in the corner", so trying to utilise an alcove to fit a desk and shelves. The dimensions of the alcove are: - Back 1.1m - Left hand depth / chminey breast 0.33m - Desk depth on left -- full depth...

We think we have some uninvited guests of some sort but can't quite figure out what. We've a standard loft conversion at the top of our standard vitorian terrace. So pretty much no loft, just a foot square triangle that boxes in the bracket holding the old chimney pot above (the rest of the...

Hi As the subject ! As soon as it's warm enough to turn the heating off, we're going to replace the rad in one room (as in this thread). I want to take the opportunity to replace the small old rads in another couple of rooms at the same time. I've tried a few online...

Hi - Hoping someone can give me some advice on a problem with our CH system, which is struggling to heat our 2nd floor loft-conversion room of our victorian terrace. - Boiler is only a year old and heats the rest of the house OK. - The rad in the loft room is blead and gets an even hot...

I need to install a small (6-8M) DIN rail enclosure in the airing cupboard, which is off the bathroom. I'm sourcing the enclosure so need to check if the requirement for the location. Is the airing cupboard classed as still "part of" the bathroom (ie making it a special location). The door...

Hi, We started stripping the old lining paper off the walls in our kitchen/diner - it was really bad - looked more like 2 ft squares had been used, not rolls!.. And it was peeling in places etc,. Intention/expectation was to patch holes, PVA then re-line & paint. Especially as this is 100+...

Hi, Just begun to re-decorate the kitchen/diner in our 100 year old terraced house. There was some bad quality "boxing" down the side of the chimney breast which had to go (was so bad it can never really have fitted anyway). I always suspected this covered some pipes : Are these...

I've realised that we have no earth bonding to the gas, and probably also to the water. The gas meter is only a metre or so from the incoming cable with sheath earth. It seems to be reasonably simple to fix but I have a few q's before I go charging in...: Electric and gas meters are NOT...

Hi, As soon as it gets warm enough in 2008 to turn off the CH, we'll be getting a new boiler to replace the 10yr old one that was fitted to the house before it was extended & had a loft conversion.. ie it's old, inefficient, noisey and undersized. Originally we were looking for just a...

Hi, My CH zone valve actuator gave up the ghost today... Getting a replacement tomorrow... Whilst removing the dead actuator, I realised that my system has 2 x 2 port valves (1 for CH, 1 for HW) whereas in my last home an otherwise identical system had 1 3-port. Not a problem, just a...

Is it worth a DIYer taking some proper electrical course(s)? With a big kitchen refurb being planned for next year, wanting to do a lot of it ourselves, including a lot of the electrical works. There are other bits in the house that could do with improvements (spurs off spurs etc). So lots...

We will be having an old boiler replaced next year. Our plumber has indicated that a new bigger gas pipe is needed to it. I've no problem with this as (1) we know him and (2) reading on here there seems to be a lot of genuine requirement to upgrade older gas pipes. We did not discuss...

Hi.. First post after weeks of lurking, so please be nice to the newbie! I want to relocate my CH programmer/timer from the back of my first floor airing cupboard to room immediately below. It is currently connected via 2 3-core flexes to the wiring centre which in turn is connected to a...