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Many thanks for the replies. I will fit a room stat and embark on a spouse education programme. I did doubt the cost benefit of changing the boiler. It's reliable and showing no siogn of breaking down at all. Craig

Hi, I have a 3-bed bungalow with LPG-fired heating, a 20-year old system with hot water tank. It works well, but I feel it could be more efficient, and the price of LPG is pretty painful. The house has approx 20cm of loft insulation and it's timber-framed. The wood-framed double glazing is 20...

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Hi, I have a bungalow with front door leading onto large L-shaped hall. I would like, for reasons of convenience and insulation, to put a partition wall across the hall approximately 2 metres in from the front door, thus creating a sort of entrance hall/vestibule. Is this something I'd...

I understand that - I'm just wondering what size generator I will need to run (observing all instructions re earthing etc.) power my central heating controller, pump and a few lights. Applicances will be connected solely to the gen, and there will be no house wiring/gen wiring interface. I...

If you read my post, I didn't suggest this. :) I'm well aware of the issues surrounding cowboy installs, which is why I'm not undertaking something which I can't afford to do properly in a cavalier and unsafe manner. My solution is akin to running a generator for power to a caravan - no...

Of course I meant 850-900 Watts! :oops: I don't want to go to the expense of having it connected up to the house as we can always ship out to my parents, who live only a few miles away. This would just save us having to do so every time, which is a bind when we could get by with a little...

Hi, Thanks for any help offered in advance! Where I live is quite remote and we typically suffer 2-3 48-hour power cuts a year (we are on a spur line which is fragile and exposed, apparently). As I have 2 young kids and a cold-sensitive wife, our main issues with these outages are a)...

Maybe I wasn't clear. What I wondered was if I built a chimney breast in my living room from plasterboard, then fitted a fireplace and gas fire into it, could i then have a vertical flue (like the ones fitted to boilers) inside that chimney breast, which would then travel up through the ceiling...

Hi, hope someone can help me as we're getting a little confused! We just moved out into the country after having out first baby and we love it. However, we now have an LPG gas supply, fed from a tank. After the weekend's storms, we found ourselves without electricity and heating, and had to...