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Hi all Have boarded out my man cave in the garden inside with osb 3 board I'd like to paint it to give a bit of extra light. I'm not bothered about having a smooth finish, I'm happy to have the osb rough finish, I'm just wary about the paint being sucked in and blowing the board or...

Am i right in thinking that if i fill the void between the roof joists completely with PIR insulation (6 inch) this will in essence eradicate the cold void and remove the need to ventilate the roof space?

Insulating a Garden Room..... Stud is 4x2, wrapped outside edge with breathable membrane then 19mm T&G nailed to studwork. Kingspan on the inside walls - do i fill the whole void ie 100mm Kingspan - or does there need to be an air gap? Same again with the roof - its a flat roof done in...

Hi all, Im all but going to build a "shed" for a pool table in the garden. ( just got to convince myself to spend the money) I want to use this all year round naturally.....so should it really be insulated? Ive priced up for (from outside in) wavey edge baton tyvek housewrap (any...

I am going to put 6 downlighters into my kitchen replacing the existing ugly strip light thats in there. I have traced all the current wiring and have drawn up what my new cabling will look like after ive replaced the strip with spots. I am happy with it all apart from im not sure how to...

Hi, Im looking for a new bath. Currently got a 5mm acrylic P shape 1500 shower bath but its so poorly made i want it replaced. Its that thin on the bends that you can see straight through it! Im after another 1500 P or L shape bath. Any installers out there recommend any good...

Hi all, I have to do a lot of griding of the conrete floor in my living room this weekend. I have only recently repainted the LR (6 weeks ago) To protect the walls and ceiling from the dust i want to cover them in polythene dust sheets that are masking taped up. However im woried...

Morning all, My laminate has been down in my living room for 2 years. It was laid ontop on a foam underlay with a vapour proof barrier in it. The last few month though some of the joints in the centre of the room started to blow, and looked a darker colour, so auto thought moisture -...

Vaillant Turbomax Pro 24e whenever i drain down my system my pressure guage does not move!! it sits on about 1.4 bar when full and after i have drained all rads and boiler it still thinks there is 1.4 bar When i fill it back up its guess work and i have no clue how much pressure is...

Priced up some windows for my house and they are supply only but comes out at £1850 for 7 windows. Local fensa fitter will fit them for me for £250 and I supply fittings etc so total of £2200. Local companies have quoted me and the cheapest is 3300! The window company is...

Hi, Going to replace my 11 year old Vaillant Turbomax Pro 24e with a more modern condensing combi. 3 bed semi ground floor roughly 50 m3 1st floor roughly 33 m3 1 Bathroom 9 Rads - 5 downstairs totalling roughly 25,000 BTU 4 upstairs totalling roughly 10,000 BTU Thinking...

I was just carrying some wood down my side alley way and smashed the end of the plastic thing that's on the outside wall at the end of the flue pipe. What's the actual name for it? And can I be replaced? Thanks

Hi all, After my fun and games on Monday (you may have read) on trying to refill my system aftr draining down i know seem to be loosing pressure. Since Monday tea time when i sorted the noisy pump and fan out i have lost about 1/4 bar of pressure. Pressure bar not previously moved in 12...

hi, i put some sludge remover in my sealed system approx end of Jan. Totally forgot i put it in until today. Had heating working fine until early April time, heating not been on since. Water working no problem up until i started draining this morning. So drained system to remove...

Valiant Turbomax pro 24e This morn turned heating on manually (managed by honeywell 927) Went and had shower, come back downstairs and still cold with rads just warming up. When heating on all lights are on as per normal When calling for hot water it shuts off the heating and just leaves...

Hi all, Brought my house in the summer - 9 rad, 5 down 4 up. Vaillant Turbomax Pro 24e Combi boiler All radiators downstairs brand new (double panel) with brand new pipe work (15mm copper) All rads downstairs have new TRV's. They all work fine - get nice and warm and never have any air...

Hi all, I am going to put my Honeywell CMT927 in tonight. I have been reading around to try and understand stats/TRV etc a bit more and have a question. it appears it is not wise to have TRV on every rad in the house? I have. I am going to put my roomstat in the lounge. I have 2...

Hi all, Could somebody please help me understand the following diagrams on wiring my new room stat into my boiler. Boiler - Vaillant Turbomax Pro 24e Stat - Honeywell CMT927 Wireless Boiler wiring: Page 17 of the following PDF link...

Hi all, I brought a Honeywell CMT927 external room stat for the afore mentioned boiler today. That boiler has an optional dial timer clock which was fitted to it. Of which im led to believe is just plugged in? How do we over-ride that dial timer to put the 927 in? Is a case of just...

Hi all, I brought my first house in the summer and am in my first winter paying the bills. I know didly squat about CH and am in disbelief on how much my gas bill is going to be this month for having the heating on for 6.5 hours a day (about £100 for the month) Afore mentioned boiler (9...