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Insulation - Cheapest supplier
Can anyone help with cheap suppliers or deals (not green deal and I don't qualify for ECO scheme). I'm insulating the ground floor (void between the floor boards and basement ceiling) and the prices are making it seem unrealistic, especially since we need 41sq meters. I'd ideally like the thickest boards but I'll consider…
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Plasterboard Advice Please
We are overboarding a wall in our kitchen, using soundbloc plasterboard, fixing them onto wooden battens which are already in place.....what is the best thing to put behind the plasterboards, in between the battens ? .....someone suggested kingspan/recticel, to fill the void.......any ideas ?.......Jack
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Baffling puzzle for electrical experts
Really weird... Was vacuuming on first floor (yes, I know it's Christmas Day, but needs must!) and as the Henry cleaner head (set up for carpets) passed over the metal doorstrip (brass-effect aluminium I think) the smoke alarm in the hallway below went off - just four beeps. We worked out that the alarm is almost…
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UPVC door key turns but doesnt lock from the inside
Have a UPVC door that is about 12 years old and was earmarked for replacement this year. However typically is has now broken. Handle goes up and key turns from inside but when you press the door handle the door opens, so actually not locked at all. I have managed to get it to lock from the outside, so it is now secure over…
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Refurb on the sitting room
In the new year we plan to decorate the living room, DH is going to upcycle the dark mahogany furniture by rubbing down and painting it in a light colour. We plan to have new carpet, curtains and sofas. Obviously would like to spend as little as is humanly possible, but we don't do this often so I feel we can't cut corners…
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problem neighbours
Brief History - I live in a nice house in a nice area one problem is yapping dogs getting worse- about a year ago I posted another thread on yappy dogs - was at time tongue in cheek as didn't bother me as much as now - got various advices, some constructive some "how dare you, dogs should be allowed to bark freely" and all…
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Boiler won't turn off!
I have a very ordinary conventional hot water/central heating boiler (Ideal Classic FF270) with cylinder upstairs and a pumped primary (I think that's what it's called) and two electrically controlled valves. The problem I have is that when the timer/controller says that the hot water should turn off, the pump doesn't - it…
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Extraction fan for a studio flat
I am looking for a good humidity extraction fan for my ground floor studio flat. As I am a leaseholder I cant drill thought the outside wall, so installation through the kitchen window is my only option. Does anybody have any recommendations? I thought of a HeatSava but close proximity to a sewage works means I would get…
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Bathroom fan
Hello I need to install a new bathroom extractor fan and I think the Manrose CF100 is best suited to the job. My current bathroom fan is a Vent-Axia Humidistat, which although great is not suitable for my bathroom - ground floor, no outside walls and 2 meters of flat and flexi ducting. I'm finding the bathroom stays damp…
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Composite front doors, potential cost?
Just moved in to a ground floor ex local authority flat, and it has a fairly flimsy front door which is half glazed. It's pretty loose in the frame too, very draughty and you can hear people having conversations on the other side as if they were standing in the room with you. I've been looking at replacing the door and…
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radiator question
We have just moved house and the living room radiator I not heating up. I have checked to see if there is air in the radiator but there isn't. At the bottom of the radiator on the opposite side to the thermostat there I a little brass valve thing at the pipe join which the radiator bleed key fits, but I have no idea what…
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Cladding and other advice
Hi All We are soon hoping to embark on a double storey front and back extension. It is a detached double fronted house and the front extension will solely be a double storey in the middle of the house, downstairs extension is porch downstairs and upstairs will be a new bathroom to the front. The house is currently flat at…
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Fitting bathroom cabinet into 2 layer plasterboard wall
Hi, We plan to fit a mirrored bathroom cabinet (~20 Kg) into a plasterboard wall. The wall seems to have 2 layers of plasterboard followed by some hard material which may be plywood (tried tapping a small drill bit to find whether its stud or not).. The screws provided with cabinet are 45mm long but only go 30 mm into wall…
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Taping and Jointing TE Plasterboard wall - what size beading???
Went to Wickes yesterday to buy some angle beading to fit over an external corner of two plasterboards for the taping and joingting im doing in the new year. What size beading do I need (thickness, not length) as I coudl see several different sizes. I assume as its only a T+J finish, not a full skim that I need as thin…
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New boiler - but which one?
I need a new boiler in my flat but am stuck choosing one. The first boiler that was recommended was the Ideal Logic+ 24kW. I understand that Ideal have a bad reputation for some models but can't find anything online that specifically faults the logic+. I have had another installer quoting for a worcester bosch which would…
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Time for a new floor
My living room floor is pine boards probably about 90years old. The floor has been cut up a few times so isn't really nice anymore and needs renewing. We moved in 25 years ago and the floor was covered with meter square sheets of board, shiny on one side, textured on the other. Then carpeted. In my zeal I took the square…
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Asbestos in render
Hi Our house currently qualifys for external wall insulation through a government scheme. Prblem is the scheme has said that there is asbestos in the gable end render (60sqm) and the y will not be drilling the cladding to the wall. The survay we had on the house didnt mention anything about asbestos, just said that the…
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solid wood flooring on plasterboard
Hi I got solid wood flooring done a year ago, its floating so its not joined anywhere to anything, my builders were absolute rubbish so I am going to redo this but I just want to know the correct procedure. I have a normal semi detatched 1930's house, at the moment the wooden flooring is on top of the floor board. underlay…
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Solar light - always on?
Hi Is there a solar security light that always stays on at dusk? I've looked on-line and all I can find is PIR versions. I would like to have a light always on at the side of my house. Thanks
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Building inspector - Extractor fan with unvented water cylinder
Hi, we have had a small extension to our house which has a new heating ssytem, the boiler is located in the kitchen and the unvented water cylinder is in a store room along with the washing machine under the stairs which is off the kitchen. An inspector has requested an extractor fan be fitted in the room. Not an easy task…
