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Hi folks, I've read for years that Conifers are the most evil tree in existence, able to cause neighbours to have fisticuffs in the street, tear down huge buildings with their evil strangling roots etc lol. :lol: All I see myself is a pretty tree, that if kept under control can quickly...

Hi folks, When getting a quote for buildings insurance, does the proximity of trees usually refer to the trunk or the branches? Got a tree more than 5m away, but actually quite close when the branches are taken into account. Cheers

Hi folks, I've just seen some cool vertical radiators which I think might solve (one of the many lol) some layout problems in the living room. Currently the radiators are positioned rather randomly, making positioning of furniture somewhat awkward. We have a patio door smack bang in the...

Reading through some other unlrelated posts, I've noticed freddy has added a comment "polystyrene is cheap because it's crap" lol. :lol: This got me thinking. Currently our ground floor consists of a concrete base, polystyrene blocks, a sheet of DMP, and the chipboard tongue and groove...

Hi folks, I have a long list of things to learn about in readiness for future upgrades/modifications (as the regulars will know). The joists in the loft (ceiling joists I presume) appear to be about 2"x4". Am I right in thinking they'd need to be double this to support a floor for a...

Hi folks, One thing that's always bothered me about our house is that the stairs start at the back of the living room (it's actually the only house in the street with this layout as far as I can tell). Ideally I'd like the stairs to start at the beginning of the living room so they're just...

Hi folks, sorry if this is posted elsewhere, I'm having a moment and can't for the life of me find the information I'm after. Using the ropey diagram I've knocked up, what would be the minimum width from the walls of "Bathroom" and "Bedroom 1" to the handrail at the top of the stairs (drawn...

Hi folks, Our current ancient boiler is located where our new downstairs 2nd bath/shower room is going to be. The long term plan is to put in a new combi boiler either in the kitchen or in a large cupboard off the hall. For now however we're going to have to soldier on with the old boiler...

Hi folks, As you might have read in previous posts, I'm planning installing a downstairs shower room. The original plan was to knock up the stud wall etc myself and pay a plumber to install all the plumbing. However now I've really got my teeth into stripping out the house, I've noticed...

Hi folks, Amongst the long list of things to do/considering doing is splitting a resonably decent sized room in two so the kids can have their own rooms. Apologies for the crudeness of the sketch, but here's what we have. The top image is what is there currently (blue being windows), the...

Hi folks, I've just been reading mattysupras post above regarding levelling an uneven wooden subfloor. It all sounds pretty do-able, but I have some questions. Our floor is a floating floor and consists of concrete, a DMP, polystyrene blocks and chipboard tongue and groove panels placed...

Hi folks, You lot are probably sick of me by now :lol: . Got loads and loads of ideas for our 1990 ex-housing association house that we bought recently. Anyway, we have a few connected jobs to do. We need a new Combi Boiler, the old radiators are ugly and caked in paint, the radiator...

Hi folks, quick one for you. The guy who fitted our interior doors last year has planed a bit too much from one end of a door (maybe 3-4mm deep, and 7-8 cm long), so the gap is noticeably bigger at that opint than the rest of the door. I'm pretty handy with filler (from my car repair days)...

Hi folks, this is probably a daft question, but I'm curious so thought I'd ask anyway. If planning permission was refused for something, can you just go ahead and build something smaller as a permitted development, or does the previous planning application impact on it in any way? Just...

Hi folks, Quick one for you. Amongst the pile of things we want to do, is to errect (or have errected) a conservatory. Due to the size and shape of the house this would end up (subject to planning as it's probably going to project out more than 3m) being almost as wide as the back of the...

Hi folks, On my massive to-do list is to rid this house of the horrible splattered texture on the ceilings (something like the image below). I have some (very lol) limited skimming experience on walls (well A wall lol), but I appreciate ceilings are a different ball game, and I'm just...

Hi folks, This is one for the future, but I thought I'd discuss it now so I'm clued up lol. We wish to add a rear convervatory to the house at some point in the future. This could be professionally installed, part installed/part DIY, or mostly DIY. Something I need to ask is relating to...

Hi folks, first of all, I hope this isn't too daft a sounding question.... Basically we could do with partitioning one long room with a single window in the middle (the window is around 2m wide) into two smaller rooms. The simplest way to do it, while retaining a window in each room, would...

Hi folks, quick question. Currently downstairs we have concrete floors with a damp proof membrane, polystyrene blocks on top of the DMP and chipboard on top of that. The house is approx 20 years old ex-housing association. The heating appears to have been the last thing to be installed as...

Hi folks, long time no post. I'm hoping somebody can offer some advice here. We could do with making better use of the loft space on our approx 20 year old house. Currently the supports for the roof are a W type arrangement, which offers a reasonable space down the middle of the loft but no...