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I live in a mid 1970s detached house with a new combi boiler system fitted 5 years ago, but with what I suspect is the original bathroom suite and plumbing. I'd like to fix a really annoying problem with the taps in the bathroom sink. If I flush the toilet then turn on the hot tap in the sink...

I've read that expanded foam insulation such as Celotex, Kingspan etc gradually degasses over the years as the blowing agent (heptane?) seeps out of the pores in the foam and is replaced with air, so that eventually it has an insulation U value similar to that of standard mineral wool. The...

I'm pretty sure that there's a slow water leak somewhere behind one of my old airing cupboard walls where it adjoins the bathroom. What seemed like a simple job of cutting out a few square sections of the wall with a plasterboard saw and having a good look behind quickly turned into an epic...

I realise that garage insulation questions are pretty common on here, but I'm more interested in asking whether or not it's worth me doing rather than how to do it. I've got a brick-built detached (1978) house with an attached garage of the same construction (also pitched roof) but...

I've recently moved into a 1978 3 bed detached house and it seems to have a few strange electrical issues. I won't list them all here but there's one in particular that I need to get sorted and that's the bathroom light because trying to bath a toddler by lamplight is a royal pain in the @ss, as...