Home DIY

We have an old wooden towel rack sitting in front of the small rad. It is always my towel on the back getting warm.

Floor space is a premium but there is a whole blank wall above the existing rad that would happily take a rack (or tall towel rad if a suitable side entry valve one exists).

Are we no longer discussing the 20 turns of PTFE?

Well it seems that you are.

Jesus fucking wept.

You could always make your own rad to fit. It is simple and cheap.
Here is one I did earlier:

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Bugger all surface area, you're not going to achieve much flux through that.

It takes the chill out of a tiny shower/wc room with about 1.6 sq.m floor area.
It was designed by guesswork, how to best use the 800 mm space between the sink drain and wall. I was prepared to add more surface area or even rebuild it with more pipework but that has not been necessary. The thermostat stays at 3 - 3.5.

Jesus, the spanish bloke who works in the coffee shop?

I don't get the idea of using that much ptfe.

Will you shut up about PTFE. Nobody cares anymore; the earth has revolved and it's another brand new day.

How many revolutions?

Ha!

You could add an electric towel rail. They're quite useful because you can put them on a timer and have them work independently of the CH. I put one in a wasted corner in our bathroom and it's ace. In the summer, when the CH never comes on, I can put wet towels (or washing) on it and press the boost button to dry it out.

Again, if it ain't easy, I ain't doing it. The original idea was only to swap the rad if it meant a simple swap out. That doesn't look likely what with most towel rads having vertical tails which would require plumbing and floorboard work. Similarly, running in electro-cables will require much more work than I am willing to outlay just to have toasty towels.

99.9% sure we'll just bung a ladder rack/rail on the wall above the current rad.

a big run of felting has come off the shed roof. ive tacked it back down for now. Adding more layers over the top seems a half arsed solution compared to stripping it all off and starting again, but, its winter.

I would replace as soon as you can be arsed/it dries out as you don't want to trap moisture underneath and rot the roof. Tarpaulin would be an acceptable half-arsed solution if a) you can secure it and b) you plan to strip the felt soon anyway.

I'm pondering adding another light in my hallway, preferably to be controlled by the light switch which controls the existing light (it's the same hallway, I can't think of any circumstance when you'd want one but not the other on).

It's a flat roof above so I have no access from the top.

I assume the process is to put a narrow channel in the plaster/board from the existing light fixture to the new one, wire a spur into the existing fixture down to where I want the new one, add the light and then somehow patch over the channel.

Does this sound sensible? Am I missing something that is likely to electrocute everyone in the neighbourhood, set the house on fire, result in the apocalypse, make it look a bit shit?

Think you're funny?

Stick on trunking?

How far are the lights apart? Could you get a drawline through?

Which way do the joists run? You might get away just fishing a wire through a hole where you want the new light. If the joists run the wrong way then you need to open up enough of a channel to get a drill in and drill through the joists or find existing holes etc. An electrician would be looking at where the feed comes from and maybe using it to fish through a wire to get it where they want it.

Just doing some work on laptop in the kitchen and the lights suddenly got VERY bright. Less than half a second. WiFi also seemed to switch off (using 4g now). Power surge? Anything to worry about? I.e. likelihood of something not being wired properly somewhere in the house? Potential fire/live wall of something equally shitty?

Have you checked the children?

Are they supposed to glow?

Looking to lay some laminate flooring over some old parquet flooring.
I would like to sand it but there are chimney breast removed and screeded so loads missing aswell as quite a few badly damaged.
So for now laminate seems like a good idea.
I've bought the flooring now and I've been reading horror stories about breatabilty of the flooring being effectively sealed and causing a lot of problems.
The floor is walnut bitumened on to concrete floor with no apparent moisture issue as of now.
Shall I do it? Is a problem further down the line unlikely? Or is this definate no go.
Losing sleep thinking about if. :-(

You need to get out! Jill?

Next door have just taken their roof off & top floor apart, leaving a lot of joists and rafters in the garden.

I have a bike shed building project that I want to get started, and a repointing project to start (way in the future) too.

Is it worth using some of the wood for a frame for the shed? Would it be pressure treated as standard?

And I need to build a scaffold for the pointing, as the path between my house & next door is too small, I'm told, for normal scaffold - again, (and I'll likely get some professional advice on this in any case) is it worth re-using some of the bigger timbers, or should I just try and find somewhere that has <75cm platforms, and stop being daft.