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Hello esteemed experts, I am converting a house which has been split into 2 flats, back into a single family home and I'd like to unify the two power supplies into one - to give me a single consumer unit on the ground floor. I've no intention of doing this myself so I'd really like to get an...

Hello all - I've got an old Victorian house with a flank wall that's mildly deflected. The surveyor tells me I need to tie the wall into the building. However, I'm putting a bathroom in between two bedrooms so I'm removing the dividing wall that I could have strapped the flank wall into...

Hi All Wondering if someone could advise me on my boiler's patchy behaviour. It's a Biasi combi boiler installed in 2000. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth saving or to replace it. It fires when the hot water is turned on and appears to work fine. Sometimes nothing happens and I...

Morning - My rear addition is 4 stories high and has a sloping roof. At the high end of the roof there is a parapet wall that's about 8 courses of bricks high. I've removed the chimney stack and made good the damage so the wall at one end is only 2 courses of bricks high. The rest of the...

Hello All - hope you can help I have a Main System 28 HE boiler which was installed 5 weeks ago but not commissioned pending completion of the underfloor heating system. I tried to run it last night after filling to 1 bar pressure and it made all the right noises - the pump started up fine...

Hello All - I need some terms clarified please... For my UFH, the flow refers to hot water going into the manifold and the return is cool water going back to the boiler. What is true for "Boiler flow" and "boiler return"? Is "Boiler flow" cold water going into the boiler? or hot water...

Hello I've bought some Salus 2 port motorised valves for an underfloor heating system - to be mounted before each manifold. Does anyone know whether these can be mounted vertically? Thanks very much, Josh

Hello.. I bought some French doors on Ebay but they did not come with the frame. I'd like to keep things cheap so wondering how to make the frame. Does anyone know of a good site with info on making a sturdy frame that'll look good. Ie not just 4 bits of 3x2 nailed together in a rectangle...

Hello - hope someone can advise me on this one... I used the Sedbuk Recommended Boiler Size Calculator posted previously on this forum, to calculate the boiler size I need. It reckons I need a 18kw boiler. This seems very small given that it's a 3 storey Victorian town house, with a 4...

Hello - Is anyone able to advise me on the do and don'ts of changing my drainage runs please? I'd like to build a conservatory at the back of my house coming off the kitchen and adjoining the rear addition to one side and the garden wall to the other. The problem is my cast iron soil stack...