Recent content by LongEarsShortLegs

hi there, long story short I'm part way through a major garden overhaul. have 2 retaining walls built, 60+ tonne of spoil removed (some for levelling purposes, some from where the previous owner dumped the footings and building waste from his extension before covering it with a huge decking...

Cracking on with my house nicely, garden looks like a bombsite but just sorting it bit by bit. Hoping to get a digger in next week or 2 to dig out a large area and move a retaining wall back. Just running into a bit of a stumbling block with regards block paving, got a huge ( for me) area to...

Could be an actual fault with the dpf but as most have already said its likely the eolys tank is empty, can buy a refill kit for around £30 from euro car parts but then will need someone with semi decent diagnostic software to tell the car it's had the tank refilled. If you were that way...

Muggles, no assumption of crystal balls whatsoever ( although if you have got one I'd be interested to know when it's likely the plumber I rang last week who was going to cap my gas fire off on his way home one night is actually going to turn up, next week's lottery numbers wouldn't go amiss...

I've recently moved into a house with a ravenheat combi boiler with built in programmer/ timer and no thermostat installed. Ended up buying a hive on offer at £55 from screwfix the other day. In the process of fitting it and was wondering where on the control panel of the boiler. The...

My plumber isn't Hetas hence asking whether I could get a regular plumber to sign off the wet side. As I can't I will either go the building control option ( since I need to have them in anyway) or HETAS for the lot. My plumber was saying ( possibly wrongly) that I'd need a thermal store or...

Aye... it's certainly not my go to drill that gets used daily and short of a couple of holes at 10 foot height I wouldn't fancy using it in the air at all. But considering the OP was purely asking about chiselling tasks I commented on stuff that's good for chiselling and I was presuming ( maybe...

Am i/my plumber friend missing a trick to do with integrating as the way hes explained it to me is I would need a large thermal store in the loft, some sizeable changes to the already installed pipework and would still need gravity fed rads. He was basically saying I could get a gravity fed...

Been looking at charnwoods ( possibly with the boiler flue) Also been looking at a trianco Newton 8kw boiler stove ( purely as I know someone's who's got a none boiler stove off them and it seems to work well) Mendips are another I've been browsing Aga Minsterley is an option, as although...

2 reasons for not wanting to combine it 1) cost, speaking to a plumber I know about my plans and he was basically saying the pipe/rads/stats needed for a wet system are basically £500 then a day or 2 to fit. On the other hand with a condensing combi boiler with no hot water tank and a...

I had thought this myself and could potentially run 3/ 4 rads off gravity with a vent into the header tank. However it means a lot of unsightly and expensive big bore copper pipe into rooms. So would ideally only have 2 gravity fed Withe)the vent going to the header tank ( as could literally...

Realise you may already have bought one but I recently purchased a £69 titan one from screwfix with a bunch of drills/ chisels to go with it. Used it 3 times so far and it knocks spots off the £180 dewalt one of my mates I've been borrowing previously ( although his has seen some abuse and is...

Hi there, moving into abother house asap that needs renovating and will be installing a wood burner in the kitchen/ diner ( since they'll be a sofa in the room and I'll spend most of my time in there). Number of reasons for this 1) I like woodburners, friends have them and it's just a nice...

where have i said anything like that? Ive already said I'm not doing the Gas, as i can't legally. Electrics, as far as i am aware I could legally do myself, providing it was then tested/certified by BC, but as they want an extra £180 to get it signed off/tested as I am not registered, would...

Aye, the plan always was to get boiler and sparks signed off(Boiler because i can't do it myself, electrics because although i could do it myself, the cost of getting it approved is more than paying a friend to do it). Wood burner i was originally going to do myself, but am going to speak to a...