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Party Wall Act Booklet
Hi , not sure if this has been posted before or is relevant but you can get this booklet delivered to you free from this government website. http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/partywall
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Help, my ceiling is falling in!
I have just been woken by my daughter first to the fact with have 2 foot of snow and secondly the bathrom ceiling is falling in! And yes there is the drip drip of water coming through. I have knocked on the upstairs flat to ask that they check, and she has just looked in her bathroom and said 'nope' no me!!! What can I…
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School shoe box for home use
I'm making up a bespoke cupboard interior in one of our bedrooms and I want some sort of shoe storage system but preferably not just a rack type. I did think the bench type of shoe boxes they have in primary schools would be ideal. It's basically a wooden bench suitable for sitting on, with square spaces underneath for the…
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Gas being eating at alarming rate, please advise!
Hey all, I recently received my cold weather payment which I put straight onto my gas meter. I've only had the heating on for 7 hours a day to try and make it last as long as possible, however after just FIVE days it has eaten all the credit! I am adamant that this is not the norm. What I'm wondering is what the possible…
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URGENT help required lighting ideal elan 2 boiler...
Hi, Not long moved into house, and the boiler has just packed up this evening (why does this only happen at the worst time!)... It is an Ideal Elan 2 and through the little hole on the boiler, there seems to be no flame visible. I have no clue how to relight it, and I can't seem to find any instructions, can anyone help?…
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Poor TV Aerial Reception -
I have been struggling for a while with poor digital TV aerial signal. The digital aerial is in the loft and goes into a amplifer box from a light socket. I have swapped the aerial in the loft and it is still a bit poor - in the end I got so feed up of this I got sky! However I was thinking about getting one of the…
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grinding noise from washing machine
I have a whirlpool front loader washing machine. I recently had to clean the pump, however the barrel is now making a grinding noise. Does anybody know why it would do this. It sounds like the barrel is rubbing against something when it spins.
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Can you use dishwasher salt to de-ice your driveway?
What kind of salt do people sprinkle on paths and driveways to de-ice them in heavy snow? Will dishwasher salt do the job? I've no idea where you can obtain grit, especially if you're snowbound in your house. Will anything else work?
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Please help - new kitchen required!
Hello, I am posting on behalf of someone who is after a new kitchen. They live in Nottingham and could do with a wholesale/job lot of units and work surfaces, possibly appliances too. They are happy with second hand if they are in very good condition. They are on a low income so are unable to afford new ones - they have…
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HELP! Has anyone got 5 mins to help MSE test new free online budgeting tool
Please see this thread (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...7#post28463897 ) for full details if you do (and please feedback in there, not here). We're launching this very soon so need your feedback!
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Could the cold spell have done this?
An area of my front garden is slabbed. One of the slabs near the gate seemed to rise to the point where the gate will no longer open properly. We thought nothing of it at the time but the next day, several more of the surrounding slabs have also risen. The place has been covered in snow for ages now and there's no way we…
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How to remove a toilet?
I'm having a new bathroom fitted together with a new upstairs toilet, currently we have a downstairs toilet which is quite cold, it's more like an outhouse stuck on the back of the house. We'd quite like to turn this room into a little storage/utility area especially as we're having a new kitchen also and the space for…
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Bathroom extractor fan
I've recently had the house completely rewired and as part of that an extractor fan was installed in the bathroom. A few weeks ago i noticed condensation in the loft space and looked where the ducting from the fan went, to my surprise it just went to the side of the loft and not to a external vent. Should the duct be taken…
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Heating grants in Scotland - any advice??
Hi! We have just bought an old, uninsulated cold farmhouse in NE Scotland. We are going to have to rip up floorboards and remove lathe and plaster walls, then insulate the floors, walls and the roof, as well as replacing the heating system (which is currently a woefully inadequate Rayburn-type thing with radiators in each…
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Empty some water from Combi Boiler but how?
Can anyone help me.... I have a Worcester 28Si Combi Boiler, currently the pressure is 3.5 (max is 4) and water is continually dripping from the over flow pipe. I thought it best to just empty some water from the system but HOW?? I know how you add water to the system but dont recall how you drain some from the system. I…
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Old style home starting
I'm going to be moving out of the flat I share with my soon-to-be ex-husband at the end of the month. I will have all the kitchen equipment I need but very little else apart from bedding and some storage units. Any tips on starting a new home old style? I will be on a very limited budget after paying deposits etc. (Sorry…
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bathrooms
wdbathrooms.co.uk and fountaindirect.co.uk Has anyone any experience of these companies please
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Single brick outhouse into wet room advice
Hi all, Been a while but have a new project on my hands. Looking to turn our downstairs outhouse into a wet room / utility room. It is single brick at front and back and don't really want to lose space by building a cavity wall....just thought i could build a skin outside not sure on practicality of this....anyway.... I…
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Back To Wall WC - concealed cistern required
Hello I do hope that you can advise me please. Our under-stairs loo is a BTW with a saniflo macerator on the back which also serves the small wash basin. The macerator was put in because the plumber thought we might not be able to get the "fall" required for a normal flushing set-up. We are fed up with the maceractor and…
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Fitted sheets
Hi all, I have just bought a new king size bed frame and matching mattress, dimensions of mattress as per website are 150x200x20cm .. the actual depth is more like 17cm. Stupidly I went out and bought 2 fitted sheets, 1 from M&S and 1 from Tesco - both Kingsize thinking that a King is a King right? Wrong! Any idea where I…
