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I have a lined chimney and am trying to remove the cowl from the pot. However it seems to be sealed to the lining - either it is sealed of the tar build up has stuck the cowl to the lining. If i pull really hard I can feel the whole lining shift. Is the cowl normally sealed the lining? And if so...

Cheers Skimmers but wont that set very very hard? I need something that sets like plaster but a few stages harder. There was some sort of lime plaster on it before which was solid but chipped off easy.

I have a stone cottage and the surround for the fire place is all stone, coursed but rough with deep pockets. It needs softening up but I also want to keep the rustic nature of it. I was thinking of a lime render but the stone work is already emulsioned. So I'm considering pointing the deep...

I have an old cottage and I want to put a porch on the front. Building regs don't apply because I'm leaving the original front door in place. The cottage is a purple sandstone and I want to find the same for the porch. I asked at a quarry and was told I have to build a block support wall to then...

It's all new Pete, apart from the backboiler. New rads and piping and cyclinder and pump. When you say gas what do you mean, the system is heated by a log fire. My plan is at the weekend to move the air vent to position further from the pump as I can't see where else the air could be coming in.

I have an open gravity fed hot water system. The water is heated in a back boiler attached to a multifuel stove. The problem I'm having is air trapping in the pump and either stopping the convection when the pump is off or stopping the pump when it's running. There does seem to be a load of air...

Thanks for reply Norcon. The thing is the stove heated the cylinder and the rads before I gutted the house, now I can't remember the configuration of the pipes. I've got the stove heating the water in the cylinder via the coil but now I need to take a pipe off the hot flow for the rads as it was...

I have a back boiler on solid fuel stove. It does a good job of heating my water cylinder but I want to take a spur off to feed rads. Question is when do I take it from my best guess would be after the flow into the cylinder a few inches up on the vent pipe? It's going to be messy so want to get...

sorry for delay in posting as have been on hols then other jobs on the house took priority. Have done the suggestion of making the vent to the header tanker on the return pipe the last outlet in the system. I took a hose pipe and ran mains pressure through the flow and out the return to take...

@spacecat - have got about a meter of 22mm pex going to and from the cylinder coil. Will make the changes and report back. Thanks again

Thanks very much all. Looks like I need to make some changes. For 3 metres from the boiler I have 28mm copper then reduce to 22mm pex at the same point for both flow and return. The flow from the boiler has a couple of 90 corners but is always going up so no dips. The flow meets the vent pipe...

Hi, This looked easy when I started but it has turned into a bit of a nightmare. Having gutted my house I have replumbed it all and everything is working great except the back boiler on my solid fuel stove. Having let water into the system I light the fire. The boiler on the back...

Thanks for reply The water is heated by a back boiler on a solid fuel stove. It's unpressured, gravity fed but when the water entering the boiler reached a certain temp a sensor on the pipe started the pump. The only part of the system I've left in place is the back boiler with about 3 meters...

Hi Have an old cottage I've gutted and am getting on with the plumbing now. I'm trying to work out where to site the pump in the system to drive the water secondary heating the cylinder and also move the heated water around the rads. My guess is to put it where the water returning from the...

Hi, have got to the bathroom stage of my renovation now and trying to work out the piping. Can I run a waste pipe from the toilet and connect bath, sink and shower all to this outgoing pipe, or are there any regs that say they have to be separate? Cheers

Thanks guys that's great and love the h2 system so will probably be getting in touch with him as we use the fire most nights in the winter and really would hate to waste the hot water it outputs. Cheers

Hi, on the internals of extension/gutting of small cottage and trying to find out whether it is possible to have two heat sources on one system - one would be a back boiler on a solid fuel stove the other proposed heat source being an oil fired boiler for convenience. Advice I have received so...

Thanks both, in the end I cut it down 2 cm so it 50cm over the mass and 2 cm of screed over the insulation. Cheers

Hi first poster here, have found the forums very helpful while doing my extension but not having much luck finding an answer to this problem. I have laid the mass concrete on my kitchen floor (over hardcore, dpm, 100insulation, DPM (extra for radon)) now I have to do the tricky bit of laying...