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Mortar on the reverse of the tiles to seal the gaps when there’s no felt.

There isn’t, and putting it in is going to be a bigger pain than insulating the roof. Imagine I’ll end up doing both.

Yes, I get that - having the wind whipping through the attic has made the house cool down much more quickly upstairs than with the old torching in place.

No, but the rooms underneath were cold before, and are even colder now - and to insulate the attic floor would be reasonably involved due to layout, joist depth etc.

Not this much draught…

Looking at a 1920s roof with no felt - some tiles (flat and ridging) were replaced after storm damage a while ago, but none of the replacements had the torching put back. There are some big gaps and it’s very draughty - I was thinking of trying to line it across the rafters with a membrane...

Thanks -that makes perfect sense (now I’ve realised what the tail adaptors are for).

Thanks both - so something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-compression-adapting-male-coupler-15mm-x-1-2-/69358

Revisiting this - (finally) got around to fitting the replacement tap today, but the tails fit slightly deeper into the body of the new one. This means the new 300mm flexis are around 20- 25mm too short to fit onto the plastic water pipes with the compression fittings; I would just chop the...

If anyone is going to be paying anything, it’s the agent and not me (but that doesn’t seem to be a concern at the moment).

The landlord only found out two days ago…

And the “warning notice” (received along with a £3k quote to sort from the same in-house gas engineers):

Failed the gas safety inspection, apparently not safe to use:

Thanks all. The (large, national chain) agent is beneath useless and will be losing the business. I’ll hopefully find out if anything was actually done to the boiler when another gas engineer visits this week (apparently this same boiler was condemned six weeks ago at its inspection - only just...

It’s a managed property, it was a failure of the managing agent.

Should say this is ringing alarm bells because I was initially told the boiler wasn’t working because the filler loop was dripping…

Have an older Baxi Duo-Tec 28 combi boiler in a rented house - engineer attended because the new tenants had no heating or hot water (and supposedly had a leak on the boiler, but this wasn’t communicated) on the night they moved in. Unbeknownst to me, a previous tenant had a gas prepayment...

Thank you - no idea how I missed those…

OK, bought Speedfit flexis, but they’re going to be too short after I have to cut the poly pipe behind the damage from the existing compression olives… Do male-end flexi tails exist?

Trying to replace a Bristan basin mixer tap - bought a new one which has the usual screw-in-at tap-end tails with the captive spinning nut on the end. When I came to remove the old one, the pipe connections appear to be compression fittings, and I can’t reuse the existing tails because they’re...