Just finished a week long plastering course and forgot to ask if there's any type of boarding I can use (cement or water.res gypsum) to board over a wall outside? I'm in the UK and the garden wall is a mess. Got lots to do, so rendering it all would take forever - and my arm is already saw after tha...
We used to have a standard cold cistern / hot cylinder to shower setup. Then they pulled the tanks and put a combi in about ten years ago. The flow rate is terrible. There was now no hot tank and no cold cistern. Since then I've bought some hot water cylinders to reinstate them. They're going to be ...
Do you have much experience having work signed off by building control under section P? I'd be interested to know what the experience is like in terms of visit frequeny and costs involved (in calling them out) when it's an entire house rewire.
Okay, in my rush to update the house, and finally rid myself of the evil low flow rate combi boiler issues, I picked up a used booster pump so I can hook up the old cylinders again and be blasted onto the floor by the shower - which, in my humble opinion, is THE ONLY WAY to shower. The problem, I bo...
Okay, I'm renovating my house. I plan to pull all the wiring, fit some new mains circuits, pull the plumbing, fit a new boiler and a few other things. I already know that anything like altering the consumer unit requires notification to the local building control. The question is, when do I commit a...
