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Hi. I have a Biasi Riva advance 32HE. It's quite old and over the years j have become quite familiar with fixing it. This week it has been locking out with a flue temp ntc alarm. I think this must be a common alarm, as I've had it before and actually had a spare probe. With the spare probe...

Hi there. I have got the above rubbish boiler, it's old, but it does a job. Last week I woke up to no hot water. The diverter valve had leaked and dripped onto a zone valve and tripped the RCD. The diverter valve leak was coming from the pin which is actuated by the motor. I brought a...

This forum was able to help me a couple of years back identifying the thread size of some old BA screws in an old light fitting I had brought. Now I've been buying more old reclaimed lights.... This time I have some old Coughtrie bulkhead lights. I am trying to find the size of the inlet...

Hi. I have a new kitchen with wet underfloor heating. I have installed 2 zones, controlled by 2 port valves. The underfloor heating is a pretty simple install, just one zone with a mixer and pump. Its not wired in yet. I want to wire it up so that it it as efficient as possible. As far as I...

This is a bit of building and a bit of Plumbing. I am trying to create some room to put a shower cubicle into my bathroom. I have a victorian terrace. The Bathroom is in the L shaped bit at the back. Coming up through the house I have a large chimney. It has been removed on the ground floor...

I have brought some old Coughtrie type lights from ebay. I was going to recondition them and fit them in my house. I am struggling to find out the thread sized used on them. The inlet/outlet is close to a Modern 20mm conduit thread, but the 20mm is a bit small. Do any old timers :D know what...

Hi, I have just had an inset log burner fitted. I had made the hole and had it plastered before fitting the stove. We did consider that the plaster might crack and my plasterer suggested using a repair plaster strengthened with fibers. This was skimmed with normal gypsum multifinish. When I lit...

I have knocked through several rooms downstairs. Some of the floors were at different levels, so I dug it out and have put a new floor in. The floor was sand, damp proof membrane, 100mm celotex and 100mm of screed. When the floor went in the doors weren't in, but the doorways were knocked...

Hi, I am just in the process of having a new kitchen 3m x 9m on the back of my house. I brought an underfloor heating system a couple of months back when the floor was being laid http://www.underfloorheating1.co.uk/product/standard-2-port-kit I did a bit of research and found that for...

I am planning on fitting some LED downlights. I have looked at some off the shelf kits which come with the transformer and a ready made wiring 'loom' with quick fit connectors on the end. My issue is that the cable lengths between the LED lamps are set and not applicable for what I want to...

Ive an outside wall that has a slight bow. I was concerned that it could be subsidence, but had a structural engineer round and he confirmed it was just bowing out and not really much to worry about. The joists run in perpendicular to the wall. He suggested that for piece of mind I strap the...

I have a large room which I have 2 doorways about 9m apart. I want switches next to both doorways. There will be 3 'zones' of lights, therefore a 3 gang light switch at each doorway. The three zones are roughly 1/3 of the way across the room each. If this was a stairway I would use 3...

I am not sure if this is the right section. I am after advice on cooker hoods, I am specing out my new kitchen. The room is going to be a kitchen/diner/living area. So I would like a decent extractor to get rid of the fumes, while being quiet enough to be able to maintain a conversation...

I am currently fitting a new kitchen/diner. Part of the room I am going to leave as bare brick. I was thinking that galvanised steel conduit and accesories would look quite cool against the bare brick and would make a feature of the cable run, which otherwise would be difficult to hide. I...

I know that similar questions have been asked before, but I am a bit confused, so I have made some sketches to try and remove any ambiguity. I have a solid 9" brick wall on a victorian terrace. I would like to insulate it. I am proposing to make a framework and fill it with Kingspan or...

Hi, I am currently converting my property, which was two flats into one house. There are two meters under the stairs, both coming from a single main supply. Its an old terrace house, so it has 100A main fuse, rather than an isolator. One set of meter tails goes into a downstairs...

I have got a rotten floor, but I am unsure if the rot is dry rot or a wet rot. I have used the http://www.buildingpreservation.com website which I found through searching through previous threads. The damage is mainly limited to one ground floor room with a cellar underneath. The cause of...

Hi, I have a biasi riva advance 32HE. Its about 3 years old. The DHW temperature is cycling. The water is getting up to full temperature, then it cuts out and runs cold, sometimes the burners will reignite and it will continue to cycle from hot to cold. Sometimes the thermal cut out...

Hi, I have been recently thinking about a change of profession, as I have reached a bit of a dead end in my current job. My dad and brother are both self employed plumbers and I like the flexibly that this kind of work gives them. As I think 3 plumbers would be a bit of a crowd I am considering...

I am planning on building a bbq and outdoor wood fired oven. my plan is to cast a slab which I will then place on brick supports to form the cooking hearth. I was then planning on casting a tunnel type structure which I would sit down on top of the hearth to form the roof and walls of the...