Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Both the diesel 'boiler' in my car, and in my workshop, use a metering solenoid pump, that's how they set the heat output level. The faster they click, the more fuel the pump, the more heat they output. What safety features do you need, they are room sealed, from the air duct.

Enough in fact, to do another house by the look of it... He is using your deposit, to fund the next job.

So he charged you claiming £1,400 for materials? Even now, I doubt the materials would come to £400. That is several times what it would cost, just for the materials, the £2880 was double what the job ought to have cost, given that it was laid on a plate, for him, with the scaffolding set up...

It is an unmitigated mess, unworthy of anyone, never mind someone professing, and offering a professional service. Most of what has been done on the soffit, appear to not be salvageable, is scrap, and new will need to be bought and fitted. The gutter might be able to be realigned, to allow a...

As we are in dispute with the council, over their failure to collect the mattress, I have checked my security cameras recording. They did actually turn up at the gate, at 7:38, one got out, looked up the drive, got back in, and they drove off, one minute later. The item was where it was agreed...

Last night - cottage pie, chips, green beans, and some homemade rich onion gravy. We've really got the hang of this gravy - I gently fried off a whole onion, mixed half a veg stock cube, and gravy granules, with boiling water, then finally added the onions. The gravy, makes the meal. Going to...

Oh dear, that is terrible - the whole job needs to be started again. The sheer weight of water will eventually rip that gutter down. Don't settle - he is no tradesman. By the looks of that work, he has never, ever installed gutters, fascias, and soffits in his life before, he is a chancer...

There are several CDH facebook groups, where people describe what they have used a CDH for. Most seem to be off-grid uses, vans, caravans, motorhomes, but some have used them in the home, as an alternative to gas, oil, particularly electric heating, or as an emergency heat source, for when the...

The wall side of the soffit should be slotted into a U shaped plastic channel, fixed the wall. It looks as if they have done that, but it still looks a bit strange at the wall. Then the sections of soffit should be cut to the correct length to snuggly fit between the wall, and the lip of the...

Sorry, yes! I have an original German version built into my car, to pre-heat it, and a CDH providing heat in my garage/workshop. The CHD can be had as cheap as £70, just needing fuel. Cheap enough to have a spare, on standby, just in case.

Were I starting from scratch, with absolutely no heating system, and a much smaller place to heat, maybe a flat, and knowing what I now know - I would be seriously looking at making use of a CDH. 8Kw of heated, blown air. with just two small holes through the wall, exhaust and combustion air...

I don't normally listen to the lyrics, rather I absorb/enjoy the 'beat' of a record. I've just read the lyrics, and yes, it could be interpreted that way.

Maybe the photo, or shadow, but it looks as if the soffit lengths have all been cut too short, and they look old? The gutter looks as if it is not straight, even has a fall to the right, rather than having a slight, but continual fall to the left, to the hopper and drain pipe. Could you climb...

Spot on, it's just a haphazard mess at the moment, no surprise that it leaks, the only surprise is that it isn't causing more problems. That chimney pot seems to just rest on bricks, with no proper flaunching. You need to get together with your neighbours, who share the stack, and agree a shared...

OR just been and removed it. I suggested he could just leave his ladder safety bolt, stuck in the wall, because needed to put my own ladder there soon, to rip the old alarm bell box down soon - instead he kindly volunteered to take the box down whilst up there.