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Ballpark cost to reposition CH pipes
Moved here in February, 4 bed detached bungalow with bathroom & 2 small ensuites. Built early 70's by respected local builder who lived here many years, and 2 subsequent extensions. New boiler fitted in September is losing pressure. No obvious leaks or visible damp and our engineer thinks its due to leak in pipe somewhere…
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Confusion around TV signal options!
Guys, we've just moved into a new property which has at least four plus TVs, so clearly they watched TV... I cannot see an aerial on the roof of in the loft. Basically there's three 'areas' Kitchen, something sticking out of the wall, that looks like coax to me: Following this outside, it seem to go into the loft, into…
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Replacement fluorescent light
I have 2 fluorescent 6ft lights in my loft that were fitted well over 10 years ago. I kept the boxes they came in, which shows they were made by Crompton are 70 watt halophosphate white. When one stopped working I took it out and found it doesn't have a starter. And also found out that Crompton don't do halophosphate tubes…
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Side windows planning
Our house sits at an angle to neighbour. Crude diagram attached. Our house is red, neighbours is green. The boxes at the front are garages. Neighbour proposing purple extension with windows on side (in yellow). These don’t overlook our house at all really as we have a pitched roof on the garage, so no concern over them…
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My Parking space 🚗
Howdy! I received a polite note addressed to me from a lady who has moved into one of the other flats. The lady was told by her landlord that I haven't a car, which is correct . Now here's the thing ; the one thing I do like about the letter I received is the politeness and not just moving into my space. The lady in…
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Roofing quote
Hi, I need to fix my old and tired roof at the back of the house. It is a small roof roughly 3x1.5 meters ie 4.5m2. The quote I got was £3450 for tile and +£2000 if I wanted slate. I am in home counties and to me this is shocking but is this normal?
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Help me choose a Worcester Bosch combi boiler
Hello, as part of our renovations we are now in a position to choose the boiler. This is a 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom + 1 toilet downstairs, 6 radiators + tower rail, and underfloor heating in the kitchen (about 20 square meters). We will do a loft conversion in the future adding possibly 1 or 2 radiators and 1…
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Damp patch has us stumped
Hi folks, We had an opening made between our kitchen and dining room some weeks back. Everything is fine and we just need to cover everything up and make good. The kitchen is original quarry tiles, the dining room is suspended floorboards and the adjoining hallway is original terrazzo. House built 1910. We have never had a…
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Kitchen Circuit upgrade cost?
We have been having issues with our built-in oven cutting out at high temperatures. The kitchen was already here when we moved in. It transpires thae the issue is that the oven is wired into the kitchen circuit even though it has a rating >3KW. We have 2 options - get a replacement oven with a standard 13 amp plug or…
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Replacing old fan flue fire with gas
Hi there hope someone can clarify something for me! we have an old fan flue fire (fan at back of house) in our house as we have no chimney, we are looking to replace this with an electric fire. Can someone please confirm what (and who should do it) needs to happen after the gas engineer disconnects it? we’ve read some…
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Creating a new window in existing wall
Looking for advice about how difficult/disruptive or worth it this may or may not be. We are finally in our new (old) home and relieved and happy, but the main part of the kitchen is windowless as the previous owners moved things around to close up an area that previously let in light to move the cooker there. The whole…
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Sealing a shower enclosure.
Hello. So I've noticed that my shower enclosure doors were installed before the shower tray was sealed round the edge. What this means is that any water getting behind the doors drips to the bottom and there is no sealant to stop it going behind. Luckily I believe the tray is a 4 side upstand so no damage has happened over…
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Kitchen floor tiles
SWMBO keeps showing me photos of kitchens where the floor tiles appear to be seamless ie little to no gap. Is this just lighting and angles? Coloured grout? Or are there some sort of special tiles?
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Adding a wc upstairs
I'm just pondering and bearing in mind I'm a clueless ftb it's very much that. I'm buying a mid terrace with a bathroom downstairs. I'm wondering if anyone could hazard a guess at what it would cost to add a small wc into one of the baxk bedrooms. It would be straight ahead as you leave the hall and a new door would have…
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Designed kitchen not working out
We designed a kitchen recently and ordered, the design included cupboards that went to the ceiling but now the fitters are saying ceiling isn’t level so there will be a gap which is not what we wanted, what can I do? should they find a way to hide it by covering with additional trim as this was the design we were shown,…
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curtain pole/rail for 5 sdided bay
Afternoon all. Does anybody know where I can get a really strong curtain pole for a 5 sided bay. My current one is useless. Looks great but can't draw the curtains! It's one of those where the rings have a gap thats supposed to allow them to pass over the brackets. They just keep getting stuck. My cutains are very heavy,…
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Determining whether the party wall is single or double brick
Hi everyone, I live in a 1910s semi-detached home. Our new neighbours gutted their side and rebuilt it completely. They insiderted a steel girder into the Party Wall but it penetrated into our side of the Party Wall causing a bulge. We are concerned because we suspect the Party Wall is only single brick rather than double…
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Left in a mess by a builder
Please please please help. I am at my witts end. Firstly its a rather long story, so apologies for that. 2018 I found my mother dead on her bedroom floor. I was left everything in her will (including her £38,000 debt that she had run up through taking out loans and being a shopaholic). I was not able to move into the house…
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Why is one of my rooms so cold?
Recently bought a place and one of my rooms is far colder than the rest of the place. I've tried to spot the cause and will detail what i've looked into. Firstly in said room we've had some mould in the corner of the room and I realise I need to increase air flow/ventilation to reduce humidity levels. I've purchased a…
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Rubber roof for garden office
Hi guys We have decided to go with rubber roof for our new garden office - has anyone used Rubber 4 roofs to order the whole kit before? it's coming up to just under £700 so it's not a small expense :# and wanted to see if anyone else have recommendations of where to order or even a discount code would be a massive help!…
