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I can’t decide which flooring option is best for a 5m x 3m log cabin I have built. The cabin is laid on a 15cm thick concrete pad but the pad has a deviation of 10mm in places. There’s a bit of a hump in the middle as it chucked it down with rain as it was being poured and I didn’t get it...

My plumber is redoing my bathroom and has requested that I arrange for a 3amp spur to be available for the installation of a Digital HP/Combi Shower. I have two options but not sure which is the best one to choose. 1. When the old electric shower is removed, I replace the 40Amp MCB with a...

Can anyone please advise if it is acceptable to run a lighting circuit cable between Rafter Insulation Board and the Sarking Felt (1960s Bitumen type)? I have installed 75mm Ecotherm board between the rafters (which are standard 100mm) leaving a 25mm gap. I am considering running a 1.5mm...

Hi I have a quote to install approximately 12 5x2 joists into my loft space including covering with 18mm chipboard. The joists are to be hung from existing binders. The floor is part of a 'loft space' conversion. So no formal loft conversion. I have costed the material at approx...

I am redoing my bathroom that currently has the shower electrical feed routing up through the floor boards, loose along the underside of the bath and into the loft through the waste pipe boxing. As this also houses the hot water feed from the boiler in the loft I don't think its the best...

My current boiler has power supplied from the Lighting Circuit. I am having a new combi fitted in the loft, is it enough to take a fused spur off the lighting circuit? Im guessing its not to code? Would I be better taking a fused spur off the ring main and into the loft?

I have now laid my nice new laminate floor in the kitchen ( Floormaster AquaLoc) The B&Q HOW TO guide tells me I need to not only have 10 mil expansion gaps around the room (which I have done) but also to cut circular holes out of the laminate where the Base Unit feet sit. Is this really...

I have read several opinions about the direction you should lay your laminate floor in, all seem to say lay in the direction of light for square rooms, and lay parallel to the longest wall in rectangular rooms or hallways. I can't quite decide about my kitchen/diner though. Its...

I have finished plastering some internal walls and have waited a couple of days before painting. The plaster looks dry all over.. I have just put some emulsion on to the first wall and its started to crack, I can actually hear it cracking when painting! Am I painting it too soon? When...

So.. Ive watched the Plastering DVD I bought off eBAY (dear god I hear you say..) It tells me to follow a 6 stage process.. 1. Apply first coat of Multi-Coat Plaster 2. Apply second coat of Multi-Coat Plaster 3. Dry Trowel 4. Wet Trowel 5. Wet Trowel 6. Dry Trowel I have plastered...

I have a part gravity part pump system, does the CH pump have to be on for my HW tank to heat up? I have seen several explainations saying the tank being heated by convection. diagrams show a coil inside the tank which is part of the CH system. Does the CH pump therefore circulate hot water...

I have recently replaced my old single channel timer with a 2 channel timer. when the CH comes on at a seperate time to the HW, the timer only activates the CH Pump and doesn't fire up the boiler. Any ideas? If I turn up and down the room thermostat it just switches the CH pump on and off.

I have just replaced my old Horstmann 423 Diamond timer control with a new Horstmann 425 Channel Plus control. The wiring diagram shows how to wire up for a two channel control. I currently have it set so the heating comes on at a seperate time to the hotwater, this is different to how...

I am in the process of replacing my old Boiler control. Its a two channel type with a room thermostat on the Central Heating pump circuit. The room thermostat which lives in the hallway is ancient, and I am wondering if its still needed? All my rads have thermostat controls. Surely the...

Hi. I am refitting my kitchen and there is a drafty vent next to my boiler. The boiler is a balanced flue type, my understanding of this is the air intake and exhaust gases are delivered through the same flue on the back of the boiler. Old conventional boilers had a seperate system which...