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Yet another guesstimate required sorry
At the moment in our 3 bed mid terrace we have a baxi back boiler behind the gas fire in the living room a water tank in the bathroom and radiators in each of the downstairs rooms. We want to get the back boiler disconnected(I presume we can just leave it in situ disconnected) gas fire disconnected(going to get an electric…
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Installing an electric shower
Hi, i did a search but couldn't find anything so apologies if this has been asked a million times. We moved into our house 2 weeks ago and it doesn't have a shower just a bath which I hate. We are eventually going to get a new bathroom installed with a seperate showr cubicle but that is way down the list of things we need…
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Potential Leak - but where???
We had a new central heating boiler professionally filled in September, replacing an old back boiler. All was well until Monday evening when I got in from work to find the heating hadn't come on. Turns out that the boiler had lost pressure which prevented it from firing up. Since then, I have had to 're-pressure'??(fill it…
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what are the implications of changing my garage to a study?
Hi there I have a garage, seperete to the house and I was thinking of boarding it out, to insulate it, and perhaps either use it as a hobby room/study, or perhaps just to store my hobby stuff, away from cluttering up the house Is there any legal or Need to do if I want to do either of these options
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Combi Boiler Confusion(still!)
Hi Still new to site and not sure this is right place to post! I posted recently about our old combi boiler which we now decided is not worth repairing after trouble finding part and being ripped off by one company. So we now need a new one! I have read a few posts and noticed that British Gas are not very popular but…
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Question for antipodeans - would you build a sleep-out here?
Hi all, I grew up in Australia and when I was a kid our house had a really nice sleep-out on it. A sleep out for non-Aussies and Kiwis is a covered verandah that you can open up the front on and sit out on in hot days and even sleep on if the weather is too hot indoors (from the days before air conditioning). I wanted to…
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Help! Need to strip wallpaper from plasterboard...
Hi, Can anyone give me any tips on how I can remove wallpaper that has been papered directly onto unsealed plasterboard? We have removed wallpaper elsewhere in the house and ended up having to have the walls skimmed. Having spent way more than we originally wanted to doing this we thought we would try and just paint over…
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Laminating flooring: advice
Can someone give me an advice. We have thru loung, our dinning room is slightly lower then living room. So we had to raise the dinning by putting additional wood plus 2 layers of underlyers. But now becuase the dinning room floor raised there is 1" drop going into kitchen floor. Unless we raise kitchen floor the joint…
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Anyone everhad/thought of having Quartz worktops?
Apart from the expense (which may exclude them from my budget),what are the disadvantages/advantages of having these? Which companies are cheapest?Have seen a black one with silver sparkly bits in.
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Granite/Corian Worktops
Hi all, I'm sure there used to be a thread about granite and corian worktops but it's dissappeared. Anyone got any knowledge about them, where is the cheapest place to buy them....how much can I expect to pay? t=tHANKS w
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Public Sewer and Manhole Issue
We are in the process of buying a mid-terrace property. The local water and drainage searches have advised that there is a "public sewer running within the boundary of the property". This is located 1.5m from the rear wall in the back garden. There is also a manhole cover located at this point. Our concern is that should…
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bannister glass
ok, so i am doing some diy in my home. hall stairs and landing all skimmed and ready to paint. what i want to do is remove bannister and spindles and put a panel of glass where the spindles go, toughened obviously and patterned. something to add that touch of difference. my question is where do i get the glass, can it be…
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Building regs re: going and rise of external steps?
Anyone know what the min and max measurements are for the going and rise of external doorsteps please? (Scotland) I thought the max height was 150mm but the builder says it's 170mm? :confused:
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Bathtub panel cleaning
Hi, I recently bought a white bath tub with pannel however due to some issues I didn't fit it for 4-5months and it was left in the garage.Now when I was about to install it,the colour of panel has gone very pale,looks very odd with white tub.Now I am not sure that whether it was originally bought with wrong color as it was…
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Professional sofa cleaning
Hi All. I had renovations happening at my home & my poor fabric sofa has really gone dusty.I am looking to get it cleaned professionally ..any idea how much would it cost?i live in birmingham.solihull. A friend of mine suggests to hire cleaning equipment and clean myself...what do u ppl. suggest?is it easy to do so because…
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Whistling Boiler
our Pacific boiler now whistles LOUDLY when cold Ie loud enough to wake us up in the morning on the floor above, and is rather unpleasentto be in the same room when it happens we have drained the boiler and its still doing it our maintainance contract will not come out again as it "works" ie heats radiators and makes the…
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Burglar Alarms
I am looking to install one and quote received from ADT for a 3 bed room house is £967/- plus maintainance and police : £24.95 per month. Can anyone suggest any other reliable company? I live in wembley area. Views and ideas will be highly appreciated. Thanks
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Tumble Drier smells of cat weeeeeee!
Hi One of our cats unfortunately got trapped in our tumble drier over night .............we found him there in the morning...........he had wee'd in there ......so we washed him and then washed the inside of the tumble drier with bleach (no don't worry we didnt wash the cat in bleach:rolleyes: )......... Now our tumble…
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Electric light flashing when switched off.
Have just noticed that when the electric ceiling light is switched off, one of the elements of energy saving light bulbs, flashes every 4 seconds, continuously. We can only see this when the room is dark (apart from street lighting). It doesn't happen with any of the other rooms/light bulbs. Have just moved into this house…
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Ferroli Combi 77 FF
Have had this old boiler since i moved into this place five years ago... although it has served me faithfully... thinking of replacing it with a new one... just a quick question for the people in the know... what would be todays equivalent of this boiler? :beer:
