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I need a section of dado rail.and skirting replaced in my house. Does anyone know the profile name of the dado rail and skirting and where I can buy a short length of 1m each? It's a Victorian house. Dado rail is 3.5cm and skirting 17.5cm. Surely they must be common but I can't find for the...

I am a home owner and have a mid terraced Victorian house in London. The back roof needs replacing (over 100 years old, minor leaks). I've got four quotes but since I'm not an expert I don't know what I should be asking these guys, what material they should use etc. Can anyone help? Some...

I have a ~10 year old Siemens washing machine. On medium spin speeds there is a knocking noise. The volume of the noise / shaking of the drum varies depending on the load weight. When I wash bed sheets and towels the noise is louder and the drum moves more than a clothes load. I typically fill...

Hi there, I nees to replace my single zone underfloor heating manifold + pump in my 30sqm kitchen (long story why). Does anyone have any recommendations of a brand of manifold and where to buy from? Many thanks,

I have under floor heating in my kitchen. My boiler is a Worcester Bosh 24 CDI and the ufh pump is a Grundfos. The radiators are on a different zone powered by a different thermostat. Recently the ufh incoming flow seems to be pumping hot for one minute followed by luke warm water for another...

I have a wet underfloor heating system with a grundfos multi head g pump. I previously had a grundfos auto ump 3 auto l pump which was faulty and the plumber replaced it with the multi head g. Previously the floor would get warm after 2 hours. Since the new pump was fitted, the floor only gets...

Hi there, I have a wet underfloor heating system in my kitchen (35sqm) which is causing problems. I had a grundfos auto upm3 l pump which was displaying pump blocked message. The deblocking screw was damaged so the whole pump was changed 2 weeks ago. The plumber fitted an older grundfos pump...

Hi there, I have wet underfloor heating in my kitchen which I had fitted almost two years ago. The first run of tiles get warm, the remainder stay cool. I've left the heating on for a whole day at a temperature 5'c warmer than the room although the tiles near the back remain cool. I assume it...

Hi, I have a upvc front door where you lift the handle up, turn the key and the door will lock. From the inside it works fine. From the outside if you turn the handle, it just goes round and round and doesn't do anything. If the handle inside is turned up, I can lock the door from the...

Hi, My neighbours had a basement built (London mid terraced) and as a consequence, we had significant cracking to one room and a few cracks to three other rooms. We had an independent party wall surveyor who took photos before and after and he believes that there is no arguement that the...

Hi, I have an enameled (ceramic?) bath in my Victorian house. The tap holes are bigger than the tap legs and it is causing some leakage. Here is a pic: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5101/201209021229511.jpg The silicone has been changed a number of times but there is still leakage...

Hi, my neighbour and I have both put in a joint planning application to build a kitchen extension with a 4m tall party wall. She wants to build asap and I will build when I have the money in 12-18 months time. The council sent an email today: As you may be aware, a separate planning...

Hi, I live in a Victorian mid terrace in London covered under Brent. Last year, my neighbour put in planning permission for a side kitchen infill. She hadn't spoken to me first (apparently her architect said not to as it's her right to build a party wall). Not suprisingly, the plans got...

i had a worcester 440cdi fitted in february this yesr. recently i have noticed the blue light is constantly on and the boiler is making a normal humming noise indicating it is in use eg no louder than when someone is in the shower. the central heating has not been used all weekend, the...

I have a house which was two flats when I bought it, but not converted properly. So I made it back into a house and was left with a combi Potterton boiler that controlled the heating and hot water downstairs and a combi Potterton that controlled the heating and hot water upstairs. My...

Hi, I had a Worcester 440Cdi fitted end January. I noticed yesterday that the pressure has dropped down to nearly zero on the pressure guage on the front. In the manual it says it should be reading 2. I looked at the pipework so I could add some more water to the system but I am a bit...

Hi, I have a Worcester 440cdi and a Honeywell wireless thermostat. If my thermostat is set to 21.5'C but I turn down the knob on the boiler from 5 to 3, does this mean I am using less gas?

I have TRV's fitted on all my radiators, except where the thermostat is. A guy at work was telling me it doesn't matter if I set them to 1 or 6, the boiler is still pumping through the same amount of gas until my hallway thermostat reads whatever temperature I set it to. Can anyone help with...

Apologies in advance for the blond question. As part of my new loft conversion, the loft company told me they would run the pipework for the new radiator and leave the pipework in the loft ready for the radiator to be connected to the boiler. The radiator was fitted today (I did tell the loft...

Hi, I had my new boiler installed which was completed on Tuesday. It is a Worcester 440Cdi (combi) and installed in the loft. There is bathroom adjacent to the boiler (same level). There is another bathroom directly below. The kitchen is directly below the bathroom. So they are all in the...