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Thanks John, I was hoping there would be a coating like they put on old slate roofs in the 60's that dries like a rubbery skin over it. Alternative idea was to clad roof with full length plastic coated steel sheets like on industrial buildings, I think structure is strong enough to carry it, I...

I have a pitched roof prefabricated concrete garage with Big 6 concrete based corrugated roof, it's 24ft x 24ft, 17 years old, ends of roof joists rest on front and rear panels with wood A-frames, in between supported by steel A-frames 6ft apart made of 2" steel box section, bolted onto steel...

This morning an engineer arrived to fit a replacement water meter, Anglian Water had not notified me, he fitted an electronic type that can be read by RF signal, it is an Elster V200/V210 Hybrid I think. It has 6 zeros for cubic meters then below that is a box outlined in red with 5 digits, what...

I have a 15 year old Ideal CH boiler with radiators and a hot water cylinder, just had heating engineer in to fix weak pilot that would not stay lit, all done within 2 hours of calling him, only used him once before 6 years ago when moved in to fit gas cooker, he said boiler will last another 15...

I don't mind buying both types if I know what to get size and type. Not much fun living out of bottles and buckets of water as I have to keep water turned off just turning on each night to top up supplies, dare not leave on with just tape on leak in case it gets worse.

The taps are Mercia OT HN Kitchen Tap Lever 1/2" (OT could be QT). I have the yorkshire tap connector that solders to a 15mm pipe but the fibre washer is missing, I wanted to know what to order for spare fibre washers only, I enquired about some 1/2" fibre washers on eBay but seller said not...

My kitchen sink pillar tap has a pinhole in the main body so I want to replace it, I would like to confirm the size of the fibre washer. I think it is 1/2" for kitchen and basin taps, 3/4" for bath taps, am I correct? I want to get new fibre washers in case the old one is damaged, I belive it...

Thanks clf-gas,Agile & David937, I was thinking on lines of what David937 is doing but feel the comments by clf-gas & Agile may be right in the way the fins are designed, if I could find a long cylinder type fan with gentle flow similar to the NuAire PPV fan I have in loft that uses less than...

I have seen the tiny fan in a plastic tube from Dragons Den ti increase airflow from central heating radiator but not impressed, does anyone know of one that would fit below a double panel radiator to blow air up between 2 panels through the centre fins to increase circulation. I thought one of...

Hi doitall, I understand what you are saying, I have used a local heating engineer a couple of times and he said to keep the old ideal cast iron boiler going as long as I can and another similar heating engineer told my sister down south the same thing, my gas bill for heating, water and cooking...

Hi Agile, To qualify for Warmfront it gives a list of benefits you must be on, does not include incapacity benefit and as I own my property and have savings i can not get any help, I was told I should apply for Disbility Living Allowance when I was interviewed for my Blue Card for parking but I...

Hi kevplumb, I have thought of this several times but would hate it to cause a leak as all pipes behind skirting boards (prefer them on skirting board for easy access). I thought it would be best to drain system, refill with a cleanser to flush out sludge and limescale, run for a few days, drain...

Hi Agile, it was a full new installation in arround 1995, prior to that it had electric storeage radiators and an immersion heater for water. It works fine but radiator sizes poorly calculated and all pipes hidden behind skirting boards si I dread a leak.

I understand the system was fitted in 1995 as Ideal stated that was date on boiler when I bought the property Oct 2004, other than having boiler checked (just clean out soot) twice it has run fine, the valve that switches flow from heating to water acted up once 2 years ago but I took control...

Thanks for reply doitall, it looks identical and I take it the 180mm & 130mm are between input and output flange faces, I measured both pumps and both are 130mm, the flange threads are same diameter also, I think it will do the job fine but always nice to be reasured by someone who knows.