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Hi everyone, I have a week off work next week and I was hoping to make a start on converting part of our garage into a bit of a play room/studio/temporary WFH office. We have a detached, mid 70's build garage, that at some point has been extended by 4 metres in length and what would have been...

Hi everyone, I have a week off work next week and I was hoping to make a start on converting part of our garage into a bit of a play room/studio/temporary WFH office. We have a detached, mid 70's build garage, that at some point has been extended by 4 metres in length and what would have been...

Hello, I've been advised by a heating engineer that the reason our Halstead Hero 50 boiler (installed in 2002 but we've been at the property for 2 years) has stopped working is because the PCB has had it, and I've been quoted around £450 to replace the part including labour which is roughly...

Our Drayton MA1 3 port valve has packed up and I'm looking to replace it later on today after work. The system appears to be setup as Y plan but with full TRV's and without a room stat. I took a quick look in the wiring console earlier and it looks as though whoever has installed it has added a...

I've built a new pergola to replace the old one that was attached to the back of our garage. The new one is still attached to the garage and I would like to know if it's possible to use the garage lighting circuit to supply a round 40w(ish) bulkhead in the middle of the pergola and a low wattage...

We've got a 70's semi with a standard, vented gravity fed hot water setup. Ever since we moved in 6 months ago, we've had low pressure in the hot water supply but more recently we've started to get a fair bit of air in the system. If I run the downstairs kitchen hot tap (mixer type) it runs...

Just looking up in our loft and thought I'd measure our header tank sizes, as the heating expansion tank looks a lot smaller than we had in our old victorian house. The central heating expansion tank is roughly 430x300x300mm (W x D x H) in size - is this too small? We have 7 rads in the...

Merry Christmas everyone :-) We've moved into a house with a heating system that's badly in need of some TLC. Most of the rads have cold spots, the system water is brown, and there's a mouldy film sitting on top of the expansion tank in the loft. I was going to do a normal system cleanse...

Hello, we're replacing our cooker and would like some advice about cable routing please. We moved into a 70's house around 6 months ago - the kitchen has been extended in the mid 80's and the cooker has moved position whilst the isolator switch is still where it was originally (around 4...

Hello, We have a 22mm gas pipe outside our house that runs along the side, up the wall and into the boiler. Half way u p the wall it tees off along the wall again to feed our gas hob. We're changing to an induction hob and the gas pipe is no longer needed. There are no valves where I can...

We've just moved in to a house and it's fair to say the cooker has seen better days and needs replacing. At the moment we have a separate gas hob and electric conventional oven. I would like to change this to either a duel fuel freestanding cooker or preferably an all electric dual oven and...

Hello, I have just moved into a house that has a brick built garage and an additional workshop extension on the back of it. The roof is split level and both slope away from the middle joining wall. At the moment, both roofs are flat felt and are leaking - the workshop excessively so. The...