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Good evening all, I just purchased the hive heating and hot water system. My heating system is a convenional system with ea water tank and header tank in the loft. There are 2 wires running to the thermostat, which I belive I need to connect together. I have attached pictures of the honeywell...

Good evening All, Not sure if I'm posting in the correct area, but here goes. I own a house which has shared parking with my neighbor, I have never had problems with them before, they are nice people &, but they are going to start renting the house soon, and in case there is problems, I would...

Hi All, I have an ongoing problem, that, I do not know what to do about. I live in a 100 year old stone house, 5 years ago I have rendered the outside and re-plastered the whole inside and double glazing windows. I also understand that this is bad as the walls need to breath. It's a 3 bedroom...

Hi all. I would like to remove the sides of my stairs, so that i can shove my computer under there. My problem is I don't know if the 3x3 in the corner is helping supporting the stairs. Not completely sure of the terminology, but is the ringer attached to the newel, and newel is attached to...

Good morning, This is my second post regarding painting my house. I had very useful tips on my first set of questions, but thought I should start a new thread with my next question. I am preparing to paint the south facing external wall, the wall is roughcasted about 5 years ago, and never...

Hi all, I need to paint my exterior wall. It's never been painted. 2 sides was rough casted last year, the other side 4 years ago. Can anyone recommend me good paint? Do I need to thin down 1st,2nd,3rd coat? How many coats does it need? Any further advise you can give? Many thanks...

Good morning all. Hope someone can give me advice. I have just pebble dashed my house last week and would love to paint it in the next 6 weeks as I have scaffolding on hire. 1. What brand of paint would you recommend? 2. Do you dilute the 1st coat of paint? 3. Is there a quick way to paint a...

Hi All, I can't find any info on the web. With all the hype about legionnaires, I was wondering could I get it in my house. I have a header tank for the hot water system in the loft. The loft is insulated and the temperature of the room is around 22C. Any info would be appreciated...

Hi All. I have an old Ideal ELAN 2 propane fanned flue gas boiler 80F P I decided to go digital with my room thermostat, so I purchased the honeywell DT90E. Not sure what I think of it, Keeps a very good steady temperature but the boiler is on off all the time even when the...

Hi, I have quite a few old films and a few have broken due to my children playing them so many times, Iron man, hulk etc. I have read you can copy them. I have a dvd writter on my pc but have no idea how to copy them. Can anyone help?

My father has terrible dampness along the top of the bedroom walls. It is an extension he made 15 years ago and has suffered with dampness for years, maybe from the start. He says he has fiberglass insulation in the walls but why would he get dampness along the top of the walls. any advise...

I have an old stone house. I decided I wanted to plaster and pebble dash the house. Above each window is a large wooden lintels and on outside of lentil are faceing bricks. The house was ready for pebble dashing, but builder said that there is movement and above each window the cement is...

This might be a stupid question but I am trying to think outside the Box, since lpg is going up and wages staying the same!! Here we go!!! I have a 10+ old boiler and it works well. It has a high and low setting on the boiler. Would putting a thermostat on the outlet pipe of the boiler...

Good evening all, I have a problem with my water tank. It does not switch off when it gets to the desired temperature, therfore I thought the thermostat was faulty. I got my friend to change it and it is still the same. So when I heated the water today I took the thermostat away from the tank...