Recent content by Argentum66

Done a bit more research and it looks like these may be Accrington bricks that have possibly been pointed with red mastic at some point over the original mortar. Just trying to get the gaps water tight for the winter and can spend more time general repointing next year. Any thoughts on what to...

Hello Everyone. Looking for a bit of pointing advice. My Daughter bought a 1930's semi which is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare with sunken floors, wonky door casings, strange smells; to be honest beginning to wish she'd never bought it. But my immediate concern with winter approaching is...

That makes me feel a bit better, hope you are right.

This is my fear..all suspended floors. Not lifted the kitchen floor yet as was trying to cover any other possibilities first.

The sink starts at 40 but steps down to 32 for the outlet pipe. Replaced it all a week ago and the smell is still there. Seems to be worse when first going in.

The break in the soil stack is kind of mid Way between the door and the window though and wondered if it could flow in via the vent above the door. Daughter has been in here since February and smell only started a couple of weeks ago.

Actually, the p trap is missing here, but this was the set up, replaced all but the black outlet from the sink. Pipe runs straight outside and to the drain cover.

I'm only there at the weekend so can't post photos till Saturday but I replaced a shallow p trap with a new deeper p trap and all new outlet pipes.

The top of the pipe is damaged too (and open) so may have been higher, but the smell is not upstairs only in the kitchen. I changed the p trap and outlet pipe under the sink but not the sink plug unit or overflow. No dishwasher and the washing machine has a separate outlet.

Daughter has developed a bad sewage type smell in the kitchen. I've replaced all the sink drain plumbing, but the smell is still there. This weekend I spotted a hole in the cast iron soil stack (as shown approx on image) behind the pipe next to the wall. On inspection this was the same smell and...

Just for clarity, this one is also in the hall and has similar functions to the one you describe, but it is a wireless thermostat as not in the same room as the boiler. I suppose it was put in the hall as this is more of a central point in the house to where the boiler is located. I could change...

I have had the stat right up to the receiver when pairing with no change. Will give new batteries a try though. Is the alarm light just to alert that they are not talking?

Do you think that's worth a try? No battery errors or an indication they are failing. Nothing to lose I suppose.

I know this has probably been covered before but just want to check before I condemn the thermostat. Daughter has bought a house with a British Gas RC Plus wireless thermostat. Although we couldn't get it to do exactly what we wanted it was working. But we had to drop the power to the boiler and...

I have a wooden up and over garage door that is badly rotting. The metal frame, subframe and opening system is fine, so I want to build a new wooden outer cover to fit to the subframe. My question is what to use for panelling, currently it is panelled in ply but I wondered if tongue and groove...