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PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2015 15:44 
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My brother is giving me the new one but i ain't seeing him for a little while yet. I might have a look at both insides to see if they match up. I'll post picks! Then I'll mysteriously stop posting...


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We swapped a 20yo power shower for a brand new one recently, it wasn't especially difficult. The old pipes were concealed and came in at the back of unit and couldn't be adjusted or connected on to without hacking it all out so we put surface mounted chrome ones down the wall to feed in through the top, instead.

It you do DIY, make sure you have someone checking the connections when you turn the water back on, if you have to run room to room yourself, you'll have 100 litres of water everywhere before you get it turned back off again.

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Before and after roof pics. Or after and before...

Doesn't look like much but it's now chimneyless and 4" higher than before. Each tile was wire brushed before going back on, which was incredibly therapeutic, actually.


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Showers are pretty easy. Turn the power off, though!

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In the room. It's to vent damp that builds up in the sealed off chimney breast. They're usually on the side.


I will check in loft. Ta. If not, I will make one.

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These fucking things look easier to put up than they are.

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Especially with the shit that Wicks' have the gall to call Rawl bolts (and a stepladder that's too short, but that's not Wicks' fault).


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I have a tarmac drive that's edged with (one deep) brick sets between this and the boarders

At some point one of us pushed about 10 bricks forward with the car and they have been moving into the borders more and more since

I've always put it off and told myself I will get the guy over the road to look at it (who does drives etc for a living)

Yesterday I was weeding at the front and just decided to sort it out, took me about 10 minutes.

Looks ok as well, you wouldn't know a rank amateur has been anywhere near it!


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This is sort of DIY. I've got a few prints I want to put up on my living room walls. They're just wee paper prints in cardboard frames so there's no weight in them at all so proper picture hooks would seem like overkill. But any kind of 'sticky' hanging material (Blutak or whatever) would probably bugger up the paper/paint on the wall a bit which isn't ideal; especially as I might want to move them around a bit to get them best placed. What does the hivemind recommend for this kind of thing?


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A shelf ;)


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Actually I should've probably just Googled it as this seems to fit the bill.


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Yup, they're exactly what you want.

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Plumbing: and upon that day, no fucks were given at all. Having already done all the pipework and shit I THEN tried to get the washing machine through the door. Door off, Top and door off machine and it still had to be smashed through the door frame removing the paint on both sides! Wheeeeee next, tumble drier.


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Very neat. I like the bathroom colors.

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:) need to finish the skirting


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In the room. It's to vent damp that builds up in the sealed off chimney breast. They're usually on the side.


Also, how tattie is your chimney breast?


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In the room. It's to vent damp that builds up in the sealed off chimney breast. They're usually on the side.


Also, how tattie is your chimney breast?


Don't know. In the room it is under wallpaper and I presume plaster. But given the botched job on the bathroom I should not be surprised if it needs redoing. Saying that, the urgency of action required if it might cause health damage has lessened of late

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:) need to finish the skirting

Next time, prise the door jamb off on one side :roll:

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I thought about that, but wouldn't that be loaaaads more work? I'm not brilliant with wood...


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I thought about that, but wouldn't that be loaaaads more work? I'm not brilliant with wood...

Well, in light of the fact that the machine took the paint off both sides of the door frame, no.
To cut down work, run a sharp blade down the joining edge on both sides. Get a chisel in and prise it off gently, note where the nails are and place a block of wood over them to hammer it back into place. Should require minimal redecorating.

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Cool, thanks :) got to get a tumble dryer in next so this may well be necessary


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Diyin hard tonight, draughty doors no more :) and new (old) boiler in position.


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And after 2 hours checking every outlet and appluance and replacing one socket later... the reason the RCD tripping on the kitchen ring was because some fucknugget had taken the mains twin and earth, spliced a connection box onto it and run a small transformer for cupboard lights straight from it. Happy with their work, they wrapped the whole thing up in electrical tape and left it sat on top of the cupboard. Now, muggins here has had to unfuck this, and will have to tidy it up sharpish. And, because that has been done that way, fuck knows what lurks beneath.. AND I wanted to watch The a walking Dead tonight.


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And after 2 hours checking every outlet and appluance and replacing one socket later... the reason the RCD tripping on the kitchen ring was because some fucknugget had taken the mains twin and earth, spliced a connection box onto it and run a small transformer for cupboard lights straight from it. Happy with their work, they wrapped the whole thing up in electrical tape and left it sat on top of the cupboard. Now, muggins here has had to unfuck this, and will have to tidy it up sharpish. And, because that has been done that way, fuck knows what lurks beneath.. AND I wanted to watch The a walking Dead tonight


Doing a load of work in my place this week, included was replacing all light switches and electric sockets. Not one socket had any earth wire on it. Also found one (that I plug a 10 socket extension for TV etc into) had been glued into place. Told the guy to leave it for fear of having to replace a plaster board wall.

After replacing all the lights the ring main wire is messed up so that's knocked out 4 other lights in the house

Saving grace is my brothers father in law is doing all the work and there is nothing he can't do, worth he weight in gold, so as long as problems happen before he leaves on Friday I should be ok.


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Currently in the planning stage of doing a loft conversion. First meeting with building control this afternoon with all the schematics.

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We converted our loft over the summer, 2 extra bedrooms and a shower room added. I hated it at times but the end result was so worth it and looking at photos now, it's so satisfying. We got professionals in to do the plumbing, electrics and skimming but we all the rest ourselves, including installing the staircase and all the plasterboarding.

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Then, we built an extension with a dining room, en-suite and bedroom in. Same as upstairs, we did it all ourselves except the plastering, electrics and plumbing.

This was our kitchen on 25th November.

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And then this was it by 19th December, we took a week off work from the 7th December. The plinths/cornice didn't arrive until the first week in January, which was annoying considering it was ordered in October. But it's all finished now!

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Did you do the brickwork / foundations yourself? That's pretty hardcore (pun!).

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Did you do the brickwork / foundations yourself? That's pretty hardcore (pun!).


Mr. flis did the foundations. The ground is sandy/silt so nice, easy digging in a little machine and the excavations held themselves up well. He had to 'barrow in 4m3 of concrete in an afternoon by himself. I thought he'd be dead when I got home from work but he had my dinner on! No, I forgot about the blockwork! :facepalm: Mr. flis did all the mixing/loading out while someone else laid them.

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Did you do the brickwork / foundations yourself? That's pretty hardcore (pun!).


Mr. flis did the foundations. The ground is sandy/silt so nice, easy digging in a little machine and the excavations held themselves up well. He had to 'barrow in 4m3 of concrete in an afternoon by himself. I thought he'd be dead when I got home from work but he had my dinner on! No, I forgot about the blockwork! :facepalm: Mr. flis did all the mixing/loading out while someone else laid them.


Christ. That's some going.

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Any photos of the finished loft conversion? I've been kinda tempted by that idea for our house (possibly hampered by the probable lack of room for a staircase)


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Also you might be hampered if your roof trusses have a tie-beam (a beam that makes the bottom of a triangle, if you like), like mine :(

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My loft has a massive beam right in the middle, around chest height. If I ever have my loft done, I think I'll just work around it.


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Could build a "gaming table" around it? ;)


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Any photos of the finished loft conversion? I've been kinda tempted by that idea for our house (possibly hampered by the probable lack of room for a staircase)

In some instances, building regs don't require staircases and you can get away with a loft ladder if there's no space.

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Any photos of the finished loft conversion? I've been kinda tempted by that idea for our house (possibly hampered by the probable lack of room for a staircase)

In some instances, building regs don't require staircases and you can get away with a loft ladder if there's no space.


I had a girlfriend that lived in an attic accessed by a ladder.

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Also you might be hampered if your roof trusses have a tie-beam (a beam that makes the bottom of a triangle, if you like), like mine :(

That's hardly insurmountable. I'll be replacing most of the existing trusses and having to put in 3 204mm section steels measuring 6.6m. 2 for the floor and one for the gable ends to support the roof and the dormer window we're putting in.

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My lofts are only about 4 feet high, due to the design of the house.

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Any photos of the finished loft conversion? I've been kinda tempted by that idea for our house (possibly hampered by the probable lack of room for a staircase)

In some instances, building regs don't require staircases and you can get away with a loft ladder if there's no space.


I had a girlfriend that lived in an attic accessed by a ladder.

Was she called Anne?

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Any photos of the finished loft conversion? I've been kinda tempted by that idea for our house (possibly hampered by the probable lack of room for a staircase)

In some instances, building regs don't require staircases and you can get away with a loft ladder if there's no space.


I had a girlfriend that lived in an attic accessed by a ladder.

Was she called Alisha?

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I'll see if I can get some later, I don't have any at the moment :)

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Also you might be hampered if your roof trusses have a tie-beam (a beam that makes the bottom of a triangle, if you like), like mine :(


Traditional cut roofs with purlins is the best case really but so, so many things get in the way these days, with the building regs being super amazing. We had to raise the roof covering to get enough insulation in, which we may have been able to get around had we not also had to increase the depth of the floor joists, which we tried to minimise by making wider instead of much higher. Ceiling joists are tiny compared to floor joists. We also had to move the door to the lounge and lower the level of the first floor landing to get the stairs in and be compliant with building regs.

It looks like the stairs have always been there now. The biggest (really minor) issue I have is the doors. They're quite low at their lowest point as they're to one side of the ridge but if we'd have centred them under the ridge and had a more open hallway/landing at the top, we wouldn't have got the shower room in.

Edited to add: I wanted a proper staircase, we could've had hit and miss steps or come up with something else so if space is really at a premium, there are ways around it.

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Also you might be hampered if your roof trusses have a tie-beam (a beam that makes the bottom of a triangle, if you like), like mine :(

That's hardly insurmountable. I'll be replacing most of the existing trusses and having to put in 3 204mm section steels measuring 6.6m. 2 for the floor and one for the gable ends to support the roof and the dormer window we're putting in.

It's not insurmountable, but it does make it (considerably) more expensive.

If space for stairs is a problem, a spiral staircase may suit you better.

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A catapult to get you up and a fireman's pole to get back down.


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Also you might be hampered if your roof trusses have a tie-beam (a beam that makes the bottom of a triangle, if you like), like mine :(

That's hardly insurmountable. I'll be replacing most of the existing trusses and having to put in 3 204mm section steels measuring 6.6m. 2 for the floor and one for the gable ends to support the roof and the dormer window we're putting in.

It's not insurmountable, but it does make it (considerably) more expensive.


You're right, it isn't cheap, but doing this mostly myself has reduced the cost by more than half from the original quotes. The value added to the house (yes, I know, London) is something in the magnitude of 10x the cost of doing the work — provided, of course, it doesn't go wildly over budget.

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Is your council tax going to change?

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Is your council tax going to change?

Hmm, that I don't know. Not sure what the bands are, but even with the work done the house should still be comfortably under £2m, so hopefully not.

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I see our council tax has gone up again by £50. It's £2,301 a year now :(

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I see our council tax has gone up again by £50. It's £2,301 a year now :(

Councils have to claw back the cuts in funding somehow. Oh, like this...

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I see our council tax has gone up again by £50. It's £2,301 a year now


Thought they were blocked by the government from doing increases?

My local council started charging £40 a year for garden waste bin collection, before you just bought it for a one off £35 payment.


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