Search results

Have an HRM Wallstar 20/25 (2003 I think) oil boiler. Seems to be locking out every day at the moment, only notice when the hot waters gone cold. Boiler was serviced last month. I had a plumber friend look at it who suggested solenoid coil and then the ignition transformer, but replaced both...

In the process of fitting ethernet around my house, and need to get it from the loft to an external wall on the ground floor, and to the garage as well. The easiest option looks to be down an exterior wall (red line). I would like to run 6x cables so clipping them all to the wall would look...

Noticed I have no hot water and the boiler wasn't firing up, lockout light was on, pressed the button and it came on for a bit before going off again. Had a closer look and noticed the clear final bit of the oil supply line was empty. Tank claims to be half full (metal and can't see inside) so...

I've bought a house with a 20 year old conservatory. Unfortunately, water is coming through the roof in the area marked in red. I think that one specific pane's seal has failed, but I don't really understand how the glass is secured to get to it. I've taken a double glazing pane out before...

I've moved into a house which seems to have a very complicated heating setup, which I'd like to replace with a regular 7 day programmer / thermostat (specifically a Honeywell T3R). The house has a boiler, hot water cylinder (with thermostat), pump on the hot water cylinder and a cold water tank...

My house came with a recently built (~7 years) extension. I've had a couple of leaks from the roof - earlier in the year I pulled a couple of tiles off, found a hole in the felt, patched it and all good. Unfortunately, it's come back (from somewhere else). Not "leave a bucket on the floor"...

I've got battery powered smoke alarms fitted throughout the house. During a project I've got the ability to run a cable to where one of them is - but once I finish the project I won't be able to get back behind it again - it's on top of a door frame. I thought the best thing to do would be to...

The floor in my kitchen has quite a few cracked or loose tiles - initially it was frustrating but now it's getting quite bad, lots of the grout has come up. Picture doesn't really do it justice It's got to the stage where I can pull up some by hand. The flooring came with the house...

Fitting a shower in a bathroom. Shower is a Mira unit that uses Z connectors like this: And I was planning on fitting one of these to the (stud) wall behind it The problem is that the shower says the end of the Z connector must be 40-43mm proud of the finished wall - once you've...

Replacing a (recently fitted) bathroom. The incoming supply to the house is earthed, however there is no continuity between the (exposed copper) pipes in the bathroom and earth. I suspect that there is a plastic joint somewhere between the two I cannot see. There is no bonding in the bathroom...

I had the ceiling plastered in my spare room in April last year as part of a DIY renovation - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=&t=1757711 Just noticed a large crack in the ceiling. Difficult to get a good photo of unfortunately - it's very obvious from certain angles and...

I've just bought a new kitchen mixer tap, but I noticed that there's no isolation valve on either hot or cold so I have to turn all the water off to do anything. The water pipes are copper with a compression-to-screw fitting on the end where the tap tails attch with this connector I've seen...

Interested in fitting a Velux window to my house. Happy with all the internal and carpentry aspects, but what I'm stuck on is the roofing part. How do you remove these slates from inside (once the felt is removed, obviously...) (I'm assuming they are actually slates!)