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Hi all We have a large 20m2 conservatory that is maybe 20 years old with double glazing and a polycarbonate roof. The conservatory is built off a 16m2 dining room that was converted from an old garage about the same time. They have been added over the years to an old cottage, and are linked...

I appear to have a 10mm Earth Cable running from the CU and clamped to the Incoming Water Pipe just above the stop cock. So far, so good. However, neither the gas supply or oil supply are earthed. The copper gas pipe feeding the cooker and a gas fire enters through the backwall of the...

I have got a Firebird S Oil Boiler which heats my Central Heating and Hot Water. The Hot Water is Gravity Fed; the Central Heating is pumped. Both are activated by the same elderly timer. I want to replace this control system with a fully pumped system with separate control of Hot Water and CE...

I have j small upstairs room which is single skin and rendered on the outside face - three external walls. A couple of the outside walls suffered from condensation, so I opened up a single ventilation block (about 10" by 6") high up on one external wall which had been sealed and painted over by...

we have a 1930s house with an upstairs spare room extension (probably 50+ years old). This small room is single brick thickness and rendered externally on its three outside walls. I was advised that it could be made warmer if I added a plasterboard inner skin - dot and dabbed. I am a...

I have two questions please. I have a 7ft x 15ft upstairs room in my 1930s house which is a single skin brick extension with external render. Following various internal mods (holes in ceiling to access and replace old wiring, new UPVC window, take out fitted cupboards etc) internally its a...

We have lath and plaster ceilings in our 1930s house which we bought last year. There are 5 B&Q type halogen spots in the kitchen and several in the hallway (the latter are low voltage). Non appear to be fire rated (if thats the term). The spots are set directly into the ceiling, with...

I have just completed erecting a lengthy featherboard fence along our front boundary. (100 ft of featherboarding...beats counting sheep any day). I now want to extend from the fence with a short curved feature brick or block wall (approx 3m long but only @1.5m high) which will start and end...

Our house has bottled gas; no mains gas for miles. There are two supply locations at either side of the house; each containing two bottles with a professional- looking switchable valve to allow me to change bottles. One location serves the Kitchen Hob, the other location serves a single fire...

I need to completely renew the virtually non-existent loft insulation in my 1930's house. The area is about 65-70m2 in an L shape. There are no noticable draughts; pitched pantile roof; lath and plaster ceilings. There seems to be several types of insulation available, and I know I should be...

A few weeks ago I extended a pair of 15mm copper pipes from the overhead supply down the corner of my kitchen, then angled to horizontal under new units then angled up to my new kitchen sink all using copper pushfits which seemed to work fine with no leaks. By chance, a few weeks later I...

Our 1930's house is in desperate need of new loft insulation. The existing covering is almost non-existant; dirty, more like lumps of fluff, about 1mm thick, even the cobwebs are thicker! Done the job before on other houses okay, but this one has BATS! I understand the protected species bit...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...

Thanks for replies to earlier post. Man came out to check system today. Expected damage to a drain run from septic tank of 50yds to probable soakaway. Instead found 6in clay pipes for only 10ft and then soakaway in middle of lawn; all totally clogged and penetrated by tree roots. He told...