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Home Extension
Hi All Please can you help! we have just bought a house that has had planning approved for a two storey side and single storey the other side extension, we cant afford both so we are going for the two storey extension, at the moment it is approximatly 6.75 mtr by 3.75 mtr two storeys, we will be doing most of the work…
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Gavin mills have left my front door in this state!!! what recourse do i have
had a front door installed a couple of years ago by Gavin mills and conservatorys based in colchester and after a few months the door warped and it had to be reset in its hinges. This has happend 2 or 3 times over the last two years, but they blamed the sun shining on it throughout the day. This year the bottom rubber…
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freezer freezing up
Tried new seals, but after a thorough defrost (2 weeks) and switching back on the pipes are already frosting up (again). Any ideas would be appreciated - might be in for anew freezer the model is an old under counter in Bosch GUL12 (replacement would be GUD15A50GB)
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Guarantee on Windows
My mother passed away last year and passed her house on to myslef and my sister in her will. The windows of her house have a condensation problem and noticed from her paperwork that they were fixed back in 2008 with a 10 year guarantee included on the work they did. The windows now need looking at due to the condensation…
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Cost of using emersion heater
Our boiler has given up the ghost and so the only way we can have hot water at the moment is by using our emersion heater. How does the cost of puting the emersion on for half an hour per day compare with the cost of hot water via the gas boiler for half an hour per day. Sorry if this has been posted in the wrong place…
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New rules on boiler flue inspection panels
Hi, we're aware that as of Jan 2013 any home that does not have inspection panels for the boiler flues cannot pass any service and the gas supply can be cut off by the engineer. Our home is only 7 years old and does not have these panels. We read somewhere that we may be able to get this done under the 10 year builers…
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Home Improvement Show, any good?
I got free tickets for this show in London this weekend (http://www.improveyourhomeshow.co.uk/), has anyone been there, is it worth it? We are getting a new kitchen soon and we thought it could be useful to get ideas, but we can't really spend much so I don't want to go and see only super-expensive-designer stuff that I…
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sink positive?
Wondered if anyone can help please? we have the smallest space for a downstairs loo and no room for a hand basin. Have heard about integrated toilet and sink…
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Help needed! need to quickly and cost effectively insulate a room
Hi, In short we're having to temporarily back at my parents in my old room, and the room would not be suitable for our child. So we need to insulate the walls as it's on the back of a garage. However we're not quite sure how to go around this. We don't want to do a layer of brickwork, need something we can put up in place…
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Bathroom design advice?
I've got a really hideous bathroom in my flat which I've now got enough money saved up to update. It currently has an avocado green suite with orangey tiles which were painted over with magnolia matt paint by the previous owner and now quite a lot of that paint is peeling away so it looks particularly bad. Part of the…
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A timer for rodney's laptop
does anyone know of a timer that i can fit to my laptop ? because appartently i'm only allowed to comment on here at certain times & not 24/7 i will of course be asking the person who made the comment what times he would like me to set the timer to :T
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Iddeal Logic+ 30 or Worcester Bosch 30si Bolier
Hi Guys, Apologies if this has been asked before but did a quick search and couldn't find any posts newer than 2 years old I've had a few quotes in for upgrading my central heating and they've all quoted for an Ideal Logic + boiler with an extra over of circa 180-200 to have a Worcester Bosch boiler instead. Having googled…
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Rattling sound from hot water tap/pipe
Hi all I have got home today to find my hot kitchen tap making this sound when the water is running. Any ideas on what it is? No metal bits are rattling near the pipes, that I can see. It doesnt happen when the cold tap is running. It doesnt happen when any other tap in the house is running either. Any ideas? Thanks in…
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Broag Avanta 28C - New boiler ?
Hello all Gas fitter is recommending a Broag Avanta 28c combi boiler for our new kitchen extension. Says if we wanted to upgrade a bit, to go for a Worcester Bosch CD1. Any thoughts or adice from anyone with experience of these or actual gas fitters/plumbers would be appreciated. I have done a bit of research into reviews…
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Nearly new fridges!
Hi. Does anyone know, roughly how much percentage of the original price of a fridge freezer should you be paying for a nearly new fridge from clearance (small damage, dints etc.. but still new)? I've seen many go for nearly 90% of the shop price but not sure if thats the going rate.
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Bathroom Fan - Quick question
Hi, Our bathroom fan is not working correctly. So went and bought a replacement and the instructions said 'To operate this fab a remote switch must be connected between live and T (terminal) on the fan' What is the remote switch, our old one had a pull cord. Would it mean something like this? Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Black Tiles in a Bathroom - Awful or Different?
The bottom half of my bathroom walls are fitted with good quality black tiles which do look expensive (they were bought by the previous owner) I also have dark wooden vanity units and bath panels, which although dated, do look nice. I'm thinking ahead for when I sell and am wondering if I should replace the tiles with a…
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Fitting gas radiator in bathroom but having to destroy good wooden flooring ...
We have a bathroom with no radiator (though there is gas central heating everywhere else) To have a radiator fitted in the bathroom (would really like one of the chrome upstanding ones) it would mean having our very nice wooden flooring in the hallway taken up :( Any ideas on how to get round this problem? I have posted a…
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Underfloor heating mats in a bathroom? Are they effective?
How effective are electric underfloor heating mats? We need to heat a 8ftx5ft bathroom and wondered if underfloor heating would be adequate? I have asked in B&Q etc and some salesmen say it's excellent, while others say it doesn't really heat a room?:cool: Thanks in advance!
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Central heating dilemma
Hi everyone I bought my first property 2 years ago now ( 2 bed terraced ), its in a OK'ish area, and is around 20 years old.... however it doesnt have Central heating, and instead relies on the old Economy 7 storage heaters. The house has 2 x storage heaters downstairs and 2 panel heaters upstairs in the bedrooms. After…
