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Carpet and underlay
We're moving soon and will need to re-carpet the house. There are 3 bedrooms plus living/dining and extra living room, and hall to carpet. I'm happy to go with cheaper carpet for the bedrooms. Colour I'm hoping to keep the same downstairs, and then the bedrooms will be similar colour but cheaper hopefully. I'm thinking…
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Sliding Folding Doors - Suppliers
Has anyone used the Sliding Folding Door Company? www.slidingfoldingdoors.com I'm thinking about installing them in my new extension and wondered if anyone had used them - or another company for these type of doors??
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Should I replace my boiler?
My boiler has broken down and the plumber thinks it is the fan that has gone. It's a relatively expensive part so going to cost about £170 to fix (although he is tring to get it cheaper for me). I'm not sure how old the boiler is but at a minimum it's 8 years and probably more (going to look through some paperwork to…
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Permitted Development & Planning
Hi I'm going to be extending my house and will need planning permission. Does anyone know if I can get started under Permitted Development (within the restrictions), whilst the planning application is being processed, then add on the the rest of the extension once it is (hopefully) approved. Thanks
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Third bedroom with no view, is it a major issue?
In my new house the third bedroom looks out onto a slate roof. The house is set In a semi rural location with open views front and back so it seems a shame that the third bedroom has no view. their is a possibility of switching the room with the bathroom which looks out slightly on the house next door but with some green…
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Repairing old grouting between patio slabs - help please!
As poor ol' DH is now unable to do any jobs, due to ill health, it's all fallen to me. He refuses to have "A Man" in to do anything. The patio is Cotswold Stone and was laid about 15 years ago, and there are some bits that have broken up, and others that have just disappeared. I understand that you can get something called…
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Building Over Private Sewer/Drain
We are currently looking at a 3 bed property with ample room to extend, if we knock down the attached garage(several neighbours have done this). Although searches threw nothing up, we did further research ourselves, and discovered that there is a drain (about 32cm diameter I think) which runs under the current garage and…
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Home Network install
Hi Just advice please I am going to install a cat 6 network at home and have come to a conclusion I will need points in 5 rooms. Do you think 2 ports for each room is sufficient ( I have 3 PCs and look to set up a home cinema setup. Looking to purchase solid cable and patch panel along with a switch. Has anyone gone down…
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Sanding Floors
Hi Everyone, Thinking of sanding my floor boards and have a few questions that I hope you can help with. Its only a small room I am doing so will a hand sander be ok? Or would I need one of those big machines? If I need one of those machines, is it hard? How much roughly to hire one? Some of the floorboards have been…
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Insulating a Mansard Roof - any experiences?
Hi all this is my first post here, hope it's in the right place. I live in the upper half of a terraced house which has been converted into 2 flats. The roof is a mansard style - flat roof at the top, with sloping slated sides front & back (if that isn't clear - draw a square, cut off the top 2 corners at an angle & that's…
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Dry rot - liability
Hi everyone, I would appreciate it so much if you could give us some advice! Not sure if In Myhome is the right section to post my question… I will try to sum up as much as I can: My husband owns the first floor converted flat in a (roughly) 100 year old building. He is a leaseholder, the housing trust is the freeholder.…
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is it worth laying a membraine (teran)on driveway
was speaking to a builder & said it wasa waste of time of laying teran (crap spelling i know)as the weeds normally grow from above rather than up through from the bottom.from what iv seen if you pull a weed out of your drive hes rite in what hes saying.. my drive will have a layer of scalpings then 20mm stone on it
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New patio - concrete between slabs breaking up
We recently had a new patio area put down which involved raising the ground level. The slabs were laid on compacted gravel. They have only been on a couple of days, but already some of the concrete between the slabs seems to be breaking up as you can see here http://img.skitch.com/20100707-cpttkyh52w3cm6q22bkkkphbsm.jpg.…
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Fridge not cold
We have an integrated/built-in Electrolux frost-free fridge/freezer. The freezer is fine but the fridge is not very cold - even when I change the temperature on the thermostat to maximum coolness. Butter is starting to melt because it is too warm! Any ideas? Thanks.
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Foam vs proper underlay
Dear all, Can someone please tell me how bad a foam underlay is compare to proper ones. kind regards, seb
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Removing scratches on ceramic hob???
Hi there I very stupidly scraped a cooking pot across the black ceramic hob on our brand new Hotpoint Electric Cooker!! Not a happy bunny!:( I know its probably not likely, but is there anything I could use to make it look a little bit better. It would take some sort of miracle to get those scratch marks off, but are there…
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Kitchen Worktop Fitter in Leeds
Hello, Can anyone recommend a good kitchen worktop fitter in Leeds? Or does anyone know anywhere in Leeds that offers a "butt and scribe" service where you just bring along your worktop and measurements and they do the joins for you? Thanks in advance, Wallace
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Howdens vs Ikea kitchens - which is best overall? Any advice?
Hi, My partner is getting a new kitchen soon and I was wondering what was best for value and quality. They have had a couple of quotes off a Howdens salesman, obtained because the fitter is a "contact". Apparently the only way to get a Howdens quote. I have to say I am not that impressed with the price. They wanted a mid…
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Blocked pipe to storm drain - help needed
Hi there, please help! Am trying to find out who is responsible for clearing pipe leading to storm drain and/or how to clear it! We have an 1890s house. Following work done to change layout of guttering (i.e. where it drained from and to) we found that water isn't draining away. After digging down, we found there are…
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Double Storey Extension
I know this is a 'how long is a piece of string' kind of question but... We are looking at buying a house which needs a 2 storey extension. It is 3.5m x 5.7m. What might one expect to pay on average per sqm and does this price usually include electrical work, plastering, plumbing, roof? Finally, is there anything in…
