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I'd suggest this as a pinned thread 1. The plumber asks you what you think the problem is. WARNING SIGN. I have several examples from personal experience, so I will give just one. Boiler not working, plumber turns up, has a rummage round and then asks you what you think the problem is...

Hi, I've almost completed my decking frame but noticed a couple of potential issues which I want to address if possible before putting the deck boards on. 1. Joist hangers. I lifted a couple of joists out of their hangers today and noticed a fair bit of rust on the bottom sections which...

Hi, I have a condensing boiler with a soak-away and want to plumb in the condensate pipe to the waste pipes and do away with the soak-away. The only way I can see to do it is to run a pipe external to the building from the room with the boiler in it diagonally to meet with the outside wall of...

Hi, I live in a housing estate on a hill, moved in 2.5 years ago. All the houses have back gardens on a slope. Ours is about 8' lower at the end of the garden than at the top and is arranged in 3 tiers. The next door neighbour has 2 tiers which has necessitated them building a raised wooden...

Hi, I'm constructing a frame for some decking 4.8m x 2.6m and mistakenly bought and partly assembled with 2x4 joists. I think I watched a couple of youtube videos first of all which were of people (including professional DIY channels) using 2x4 joists. Then however I read much more about how...

Can't afford a 10K build and was thinking of building a single story SIPS structure about 5m x 2.5M using Kingspan TEK panels or similar thinking I can cut them to size myself and cut out spaces for windows etc. Few questions: The site is next to a retaining wall (about 4' high) in a tiered...

Hi, My back garden has some borders filled with pebbles and I want to just make them part of the lawn. I was expecting only a couple inches of pebbles but they actually go down about 8 inches, below that appears to be sand. I've dug about 3" of the pebbles out already. What would be some...

Hi, We bought a house a couple of years ago where some rooms had been heavily smoked in and we also weren't sure if the existing paint was oil or water based. Crown recommended sealing with Alkaline Resisting Primer and then painting with our chosen colour Crown scrubbable matt emulsion...

Hi all, I just received a McAlpine shower trap model ST90CPB-P-HP2 and ignorantly assumed when it said 50mm 'water seal' that meant the plug hole size, but its designed for a 90mm hole. I'm wondering whether its worth trying to enlarge the hole to fit this because we've had tons of problems...

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Hi, I had a gassafe plumber come and change my heating pump recently and after he'd finished it I noticed an electrical crackling sound which at first I thought was coming from the pump. The sound got worse and worse with some loud pops happening. After a while the plumber realised it was the...

Its on the only pipe out from the pump which doesn't run through a 2-port valve and runs back up through the roof (I assume to he boiler return flow) and branches into the water cylinder primary return.

Hi, Should opening a zone valve manually normally start the boiler and pump or just open the valve so water can pass?

Hi, This is a follow on from my thread earlier this year: //www.diynot.com/diy/threads/am-i-being-harsh-on-this-plumber.428970/ This is where a plumber installed this boiler but said there was no wiring for a permanent live connection or pump overrun. He only connected 3 wires/cores to...

Hi I agreed a fixed price quote with a plumber to install a Glowworm 18HX boiler to replace an Ideal Classic FF360. After he'd fitted the boiler and it was basically working he told me that he couldn't wire up the permanent live and pump overrun because wiring was needed between the boiler...

Hi, I bought a new house a little over a year ago and it has an area paved with concrete slabs which are laid loose on a sand bed with no jointing material between the slabs. There was extensive weed and unwanted grass growth between the slabs. I sprayed it with roundup and cleared most...

Hi, I was really interested in skirting board heaters but have been put off by the enormous cost. The cheapest one seems to be Thermaskirt, but its not the best one and still about £600 to do a medium sized room :shock: http://www.thermaskirt.com/products-and-prices.aspx I was wondering...

Hi, I moved into a house about 1 year ago, it is about 12 years old and since I've lived here there has been lots of thumping noises from the pipe work which happens when any of the faucets are open and also when the dishwasher, washing machine or showers are using water. It's a continuous...

Hi all, My gas central heating stopped working on Friday. It's an Ideal FF360 boiler which is linked to a Heatrae Sandia Megaflow immersion heater tank. Plumber called out said the fan in the Ideal boiler had gone. He diagnosed this by checking if any air was being blown out of the...

Hi, I've just bought a new Bosch oven which needs a 16 amp connection, the old one was just plugged into a socket with a 13 amp plug. I have been reading old posts on here and think the situation for me is not so bad but I am not 100% sure what to do. What I have is a separate circuit from...