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Laminate floor to carpeted stairs
I am just about to put in laminate flooring in my living room. I have a staircase that goes up out of my living room. I have taken the carpet off the stairs and I intend to get someone in to fit new in a few weeks. The question I have is how should I leave the floor at the bottom of the stairs to enable the carpet fitter…
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Bricking up porch?
Hi, My house is an ex-council terrace house. I'm not too sure how to describe it but the front door is set back a little way into the house, so the upstairs kind of shelters a space of around 1.5m by 2.5metres. My next door neighbour has the same with an alleyway between the two houses to our respective gardens. Before I…
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Kitchen Tile Transfers/Stickers - where to source please
Hi, last year I painted our scattered patterned kitchen tiles (took ages!), so yesterday when I scrubbed my kitchen from top to bottom I managed to damage my hard work - paint pealed off/scratched (sigh!). I have been trawling the internet for transfers to cover 11cm x 11cm tiles (4.25" squared), but I can't find any in…
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Temporary replacement boiler - water heater?
My friend's boiler has gone so she's got no hot water. She's on long term sickness so can't afford to replace it (someone's been out to look at it and said it's beyond repair). She is likely to be able to get benefits through some government scheme in having it replaced but it'll be at least 8 weeks maybe more till that…
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B & Q bathroom & fitting?
My boyfriend is keen to get his bathroom changed. Ideally he would like someone to do everything, rip out existing old green suite and tiles, fit the new suite, tile the walls and floor and replace the radiator with a new heated towel rail. Its quite a small bathroom. He has given B & Q and room plan and they have quoted…
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Central heating knocking
We've just moved into our house and we've found that sometimes when the heating is turned on there is a loud continuous knocking noise coming from somewhere in the pipes. It sounds as though someone is using a hammer drill on the other side of the wall or something like that! It seems the only way to stop it is to turn the…
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I wanna replace ducted Air
I'm looking to purchase a house and it has ducted air at the moment can anybody tell me roughly how much it will cost for new combi boiler and radiators in 6 rooms ?:j
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light switches
i'm having low voltage downlighters installed in the kitchen along 2 walls, plus a central pendant and a light in the ingglenook. i was hoping to use a dimmer for the downlighters and 2 switches for the pendanat and inglenook. on going to order them yesterday i was told not to waste my money on dimmers as they are all of…
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Preparing wall for painting
Hi guys, I've been reading through so many helpful threads but in the end I think I've confused myself. I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. Basically I've just moved into a new home, the bedroom had wallpaper which I've taken down pretty easily and the walls behind lit ook pretty good, clearly…
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DIY Conservatory
I have been quoted £12500 to supply and fit a 3.9m x 3.4m conservatory by a local company. I was happy with the spec of the conservatory as it used Kommerling profiles and an Ultraframe roof, having talked to people I know "in the business" they said they were reputable and well thought of products. However I have also had…
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help electrical problem
Hi have got a fridge of freecycle but the owner has cut the plug off but left hardly any lead to wire in another plug.Can i try to strip it back and fit connecters to connect the lead has anyone got any ideas to help please.
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Detached brick garage, can we put a first floor over it?
Hello, we have a brick detached garage and wondered if we could put an extra floor over it, with a flat roof so we don't take too much light away from the garden. Hubby wants to use it as a workshop, but thought that maybe, in the future, we could turn it into a bedsit kind of a space, don't know really, just trying to…
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bricking up a doorway
HI all, We're thinking of bricking up the former back door to our house. The previous owner put a conservatory on and added in large double doors but the old back door also leads into the conservatory and we never use it. It currently has a tumble dryer in front of it and I really need to block it up to gain more workspace…
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Building with aircrete - v. expensive?
We are planning an extension and will use block and render. I read that aircrete has inherent insulating properties lacking in concrete blocks. Also they are light so the building goes up more quickly. However there must be a catch and I suspect it's either performance or cost. I read about them in the Housebuilders Bible…
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any thoughts on this shower
OK I am coming up to do our bathrooms out and fancy a new shower unit any thoughts on this shower thanks in advance
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Oil Watchman
Hope someone here can help - an elderly neighbour has had some work done to her oil fired central heating, including the fitting of an oil watchman. The plumber told her to leave the unit switched on all the time but plugged it in next to her kettle, and of course she has inadvertently turned it off. When it is switched…
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Hot water / boiler problem - heeeeelp!
For some reason we cant get hot water without the heating being on now - this is doing my nut in, anyone know what the problem might be (we have independent controls and it has worked properly in the past) - also any recommendations for a good gas man in NW London appreciated! Cheers MD
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Fitting a Fireplace
Hi Experts. Help or advise needed. I am in the process of recycling my parents old fire surround and hearth to use in my own house. All I need to buy is an electric fire. Planning on putting against a flat plasterboard wall. Problem is it seems that the electric fire itself sinks into the back of the wall by about 4cm…
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Window Installation - FENSA certificate
Hi there, hopefully someone out there will have the answer to this. In November 2005 we had all of our windows and doors replaced with double glazing. We did not receive a FENSA certificate at the time (I did not know that we should have but have since found out that we should). We are in the process of remortgaging our…
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Taking up a tiled kitchen floor - whats best?
Hi, we are having a new kitchen floor fitted (because we are having a cupboard knocked out and incorporated into the new kitchen. Problem is we have ceramic floor tiles fitted in the main part of the room, and these will need to come up, and have the cement chipped off to make way for the new flooring throughout the dining…
