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Help, my oil boiler has taken leave of its senses and is running amok. I think its having a dicky fit as a reaction to Trump becoming president and the Brexit vote....Or its haunted. The programmer is off and the boiler is kicking in. Turn the boiler off at the mains and the pumps will run...

Hi All I have to change the 4bar pressure gauge on the oil boiler. Thing is the house has 26 radiators and I really don't want to empty the whole system. I don't mind water spillage as its in the boiler room. Can I just de-pressurize the system and do a quick change ? Thanks in advance.

Hi All I bought a Thermostatic Bar Shower Mixer and fitted fine. Last night my wife came running in saying she can hear water running quite loud and fast from the shower. Basically. If I turn on the left side the shower runs really fast, turn on the right and it goes to a trickle. But here...

I have bought a lovely old towel radiator which unfortunately has 3/4 valves, these ones in fact: http://www.plumbers-mate-sales.co.uk/pegler-belmont-97-angled-wheel-head-34-radiator-valve---07001430-1893-p.asp I want to connect this to 15mm pipe or i"if I must" replace the valves with...

Having recently setup an account with Jewsons locally I was happily adding stuff to the account willy nilly. Invoices started to come in, then upon inspection I found 4 out of 10 invoices had anomalies. The most glaring £30 Chrome plated copper pipe instead of £5 standard copper, £11...

Hi I have to put in two false ceilings in two tall rooms lowering them from about 3 metres high to 2.4. They both have a flat roof above which is insulated and not traffic above. I don't want to go metal so I thought simply putting in joist brackets at 600mm centres, 4x2 joists and 12mm...

Right. I have a gert oil fired boiler in my kitchen and am planning a kitchen extension and total revamp. It s floor standing and far to big to sit in any cabinet so I am going to have to build a small boiler cupboard/room around it. Flue going out and has air system coming in directly. Is...

Ex pub being converted into house. There is a 2 part cellar chillar with one unit in the cellar and the fan whatever unit on the roof. I need to remove it but was warned to watch out as its is highly pressurized. It has been off and sat there off for 6 years doing nothing. Is this thing ok...

This will probably be a new one for many. I have bought a pub and converting to a house. The front door is 160cm wide and I want to fill it in by 500mm (wife, door, choice, smaller). Simple blockwork column or timber frame ?

Ok dok, here we go. I currently have a flat roof, nothing above, non load bearing, kitchen 5mtrs deep and 6 metres wide. The back wall is blockwork and the roof joists sit happily on this. I now want to extend out another 4 metres and knock this wall out having one large kitchen. To...

Ok, contentious subject terminating electrics, but I have a problem. Changing an old commercial building to residential. It has lots of fire exit signs and emergency lighting, all of which are no longer required. Due to the age of the building I think it virtually impossible to trace the...

Hi All We have just bought a house that is currently three phase electrics and connected via a pole sat slap bang in the middle of the back garden. The house was originally fed from the pole at the front of the house but I "presume" upgraded to 3 phase as it became a restaurant...

Got a Vaillant vcw-gb 242 eh combi boiler. Now 18 years old but serviced annually and worked like a dream, until now. Central heating works no problem. Turn on the kitchen hot water tap whilst the CH is on and the boiler switches off and the pressure rapidly drops off to zero. Without...

I thought I'd seen it all in house building but today has opened my eyes. I have to fit kitchen wall cabinets to a partition wall. As they are heavy I thought it best to cut away the plasterboard and put in plywood across the battens for extra strength. 1.6 metres later and not a single...

Hi All I am replacing the whole kitchen as part of a reno to sell. The house is only about 20 years old and as such has the exisiting kitchen which was installed at the same time as the plumbing so the kitchen sink unit has been very professionally installed with all the pipework correctly...

Ok. Tenent decided it was a good idea to have a creeper on the back of the house. Thought nothing of it until I saw the thing had run rampant and covered virtually half the back of the house. Told him to get shot but instead of removing it he just killed it at the base. End result. Dead...

Hi All I am tiling the whole kitchen floor and laminating the hall directly outside. There is no door just an arch. I am thinking of putting in a T threshold, hopefully in chrome if I can locate. But, what gap do I leave initially between the tiled floor and the laminate ? As the laminate...

Hi All I have just built a chimney breast from scratch which is finished with thermalite block. Due to the size of the room its quite a high breast (6 metres straight up). I need to finish it now and am looking at lining rather than plastering the blockwork. Problem is, due to the height...

Hi All I have a problem with my roof and I wonder if anyone can confirm what I believe. The roof is a typical 35 degree sloping roof. It has IKO top grade shingles on the top covering as I wanted good quality. The underlay is ALL a thick bitumen based Snow and Ice barrier, not a name brand...

Once upon a time there was a woodcutter who lived in the woods, in a beautiful log home, a home he had dreamed of building all his life. As part of the build, the builders installed 180 square metres of lovely pine floor which finished the house off nicely, and the woodcutter was happy. The...