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    Completely new central heating and hot water system ideas/advice

    I currently trying to suss out what system to install in our house, Im considering a system boiler with an unvented cylinder. The house eventually will have 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms 1 utility 1 downstairs toilet and underfloor heating in one 6m x 4m extension We are after a system with high water...
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    Boiler bang on fire up

    We have a very old Glow worm floor mounted boiler and recently have had our gas supply/ meter moved to a new position due to an extension build. Now when the boiler first fires up it ignites with no problem but the subsequent times it fires up with almost a small explosion like there’s too much...
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    Door threshold

    What’s the accepted way of building the door threshold in a cavity wall. The floor is a concrete slab insulated and screeded upto finished floor level and I was wondering the best way to run the floor upto the outer leaf at the door opening. Seen various ways when I google it but would...
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    Blocks

    Just starting an extension build and plans state 7.3n insulite blocks, trying to get these specifically in a hurry is proving difficult but been offered plenty of 7n concrete blocks. Apart from .3 n is there any difference that I’m missing
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    CCTV System recommendations

    Hi Apologies if this subject has been done to death but I'm after a cctv system with 3-4 cameras Can be fully wired if that's better due to complete rewire of property Linked to either a recorder or cloud Viewed from a phone app Possible spotlight facility £350 budget supplied not fitted...
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    Penetrating damp, stone wall semi-basement

    Hi, we are just about to move into a new (old) house with solid stone external wall and by the looks of things no dpc. One of the walls is showing signs of damp about halfway up the ground floor wall as per the picture. Anyone got and ideas how best to deal with this issue as digging out and...
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    Supply fuse

    I've got this type of fuse coming into our house, under the cover it looks like a ceramic type? Fuse. Is it possible for the supply co to come and replace this for free or will I incur a cost. Cheers [/img][/url]
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    Offsetting block work

    Is it possible to offsett blocks like I've drawn in the image? I'm building an extension and the existing house has a delph stone plinth 1.2 m high with rendered blocks on top. I've price up for reclaimed stone and can get it with a 125mm bed size but I've also found some more affordable good...
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    Ceiling/ roof question

    I'm moving into a house that in the upstairs rooms the corners of the ceilings have an angle cutting across the corners where wall meets ceiling. I assume this is the rafters making this angle and was wondering what type of roof this is called and why they were built like this. Any info would be...
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    Roof structure?

    I'm moving into a house that in the upstairs rooms the corners of the ceilings have an angle cutting across the corners where wall meets ceiling. I assume this is the rafters making this angle and was wondering what type of roof this is called and why they were built like this. Any info would be...
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