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Will try to keep this simple: spring last year oil got low in tank I tipped it up to get dregs out & it finally ran out just as the weather had warmed up (didn't bother topping up through summer - used immersion). In doing this I had let the water sitting at the bottom of tank into the oil feed...

Last spring I made the mistake of tipping up the oil tank when the level was low - it eventually stopped working & I assumed oil had ran out, totally forgot about it until last week when we filled with oil & tried to restart ! To cut a long story short I had a full line of water in pipe - this I...

We live in a converted barn which in winter is difficult to keep warm, 2 main reasons being : 1) It's of exposed King post truss construction so no ceiling as such but lots of volume to heat - 20' interior height max & big rooms. 2) When converting, I used the tri-iso roll insulation which was...

We are just in the process of sending of our VAT claim for a barn conversion which is nearly 10 years on from starting. Process is a bit of a mare with 1000's of receipts - just wondering if anyone had been through this process and has any good advice on making the claim as easy as poss. Thanks...

Just thought I would throw this out & see if anyone could offer advice : I'm building a 8.5 * 5.6 m double garage (gable ended roof) - it is going to be quite tall so as to have decent attic space. Initially, I allways had it in mind to use a steel RSJ with cut rafters to form the roof (the...

We live in the sticks and recently had a power cut which lasted a good few hours - around 20 houses were affected. Since then the main trip on the main fuse box (we have an extension which is fed by this box but has its own 'sub box' with 3 mcb's in it) keeps tripping, by switching off all the...

Will shortly be laying about 5 c/metre of concrete in new 7.5 x 5 metre garage, there's steel mesh reinforcement (I had some left over). It's too wide to use a straight edge from one block (at DPC) to the other so do I just go free hand with a wooden tamp and trust my eye or is one of them...