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Flooring advice wanted
I want new flooring on the ground floor of my house. Half the floors are board and half concrete. We have a new shower room going in on floor boards. The floors are not in good condition - boards have been cut for plumbing and rewiring access and the concrete floor is bumpy and pitted. I would like to have LVT throughout.…
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Loft Lights - Ideas?
We have a part boarded loft but I'm getting tired of using a battery powered lantern all the time as the coverage isn't that great. I don't have much of a budget for this but are there any other lights I could consider? I don't really want to look at putting in a light using main electric as that will involve a lot of…
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Upvc drain holes in door not draining
Morning all, Any help from the experienced would be greatly appreciated. I installed a new UPVC back door (full glass pane) recently which has two slotted drain holes just below the drip bar. I think I should make it clear at this point that the drain holes are in the door, not the frame. The problem is that when I open…
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Kingsized Bed or Two Pushed together
Anyone here prefer to use two smaller beds pushed together? Is the join where the beds meet noticeable? Any pros or cons over one larger bed?
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Is this possibly asbestos?
Found out today the bt master socket is not wired in. Due to have had the phone line and sky fibre made active today. The phone point is on a wall panel that has the stopcock in an access hatch. The by cable must come from underground because there is no grey box outside. The problem is this access hatch has the bt cable…
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Has anyone painted their stairs......
.....and regretted it? I'm in the midst of painting the hall and landing and am considering painting the stairs. At the moment they are natural pine, open tread with an arch shaped riser, I'm thinking of painting them white and grey. I'm wondering, will they chip and scuff easily and is it one of those things that look…
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Wooden flooring in bedrooms
I'm thinking about getting wooden flooring in the bedrooms but keeping carpet on the stairs and upstairs landing. However, I'm not sure how that would look and feel, and whether the difference in wooden flooring/carpet/wooden flooring would be odd. Does anyone else have anything similar and if so, what are your thoughts?…
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Electric shower - no power!
We've got a Mira sport electric shower that was here when we moved in - so must be 6+ yrs old, but used very infrequently since. Fine last time it was used, now no power, nothing. It hadn't occurred to me before but there is no isolation box/switch! So it's not that. I've taken the front off and nothing looks…
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Changing the always on radiator?
I wouldn't opt for central heating, but that is what my house has. My dominant radiator(the one that is always on) is at the bottom of the stairs, between the kitchen and room. Can I change that, so my living room radiator is always on? As I type this, I don't have any heating on, but my preference would be to heat my…
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TRV's + Room Thermostat?!
We've just had wet underfloor heating installed in our new kitchen. We have a wall mounted thermostat in the kitchen to control the UFH. Our builder has advised us that we should now get a room thermostat for the main house (possibly positioned in the open plan lounge / diner are) even though we have TRV's on all the…
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Positive asbestos (Chrysotile) found in paper backing stuck to floor. Advice?
Hello all, In my flat there is some paper stuck to the floorboards in the kitchen. This was backing to the old lino tiles that were pulled off before I bought the flat. The glued parts remain. It appears they just boarded over the paper with plywood and stuck vinyl tiles on top of the wood. The way I discovered it was when…
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Excavating/renovating an old coal store
Hi all, As per the image in the link below, we have what we believe is an old coal store attached to the side of the building (red). The wall between said coal store and the main bedroom (green) seems to be just plasterboard or similar as is very hollow sounding.…
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Skip Company Failing to Remove Skip
We've just had a new kitchen, which is fabulous, but the skip is still sitting on our driveway, despite the request for a collection being made a week and a half ago. We didn't hire the skip, our kitchen fitter did and he has been chasing them for us and being given nothing but apologies and excuses. He was told Friday…
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Plastering costs in Bristol
Hi everyone I am just about to complete on my first ever home in South Bristol, which is very exciting and daunting at the same time. I will need a new kitchen fitted asap and I know when the old one is ripped out the whole room will need to be re plastered as it's in a bit of a state. The room is L shaped with a length of…
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Removing an integrated fridge
Hope someone can help? I have a Hotpoint integrated fridge freezer and I am trying to remove the top, fridge part, because I need to fit new hinges and the whole thing needs to be removed to do this. However, when I came to remove it yesterday, the left hand side was coming out ok but the right hand side was stuck and I…
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Aqualisa Digital with combi boiler
I have just moved into a house that has the above shower with a system boiler (water tank in loft and immersion heater). It also has a wireless stop start remote control button. I understand that if I replace the boiler with a combi that the pump will have to be removed from the shower. Does this mean that the pressure…
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Any plumbers able to advise me?
My friend is having problems where she is living. She and her children live in a flat and they claim they feel a vibration coming from the next door flat. The children can't sleep at night as it often doesn't stop until 1am and it's usually starting again at 5 - 6am. They say their beds 'buzz' and it wakes them up. My…
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Speculate why this wall is bumpy?
We bought an Edwardian terrace a few months ago. We are slowly starting redecoration. One of the upstairs party walls, the lower part has got anaglypta type paper it seems, on this wall it is really lumpy. Can anyone speculate why this might be? My guess is the plaster underneath has been patched really badly, or are there…
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How can I find a gardener?
Seriously, since moving to my new house, I have never thought finding tradesman would be such a difficult job. On more than 3 separate occasions each, I have looked for someone to do landscaping, build custom shelving and now general gardening. Each occasion the person either arranges a time and never shows up or shows up,…
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Is there much difference between a high and low price fridge-freezer?
Current one is on the way out (freezer has stopped working and fridge is slowly getting warmer) and we are looking to get a replacement integrated unit asap (54cm wide). Looking on John Lewis, there seems to be a big difference in price between units of this size, with the cheapest being £290 and the post expensive near…
