Recent content by Bargain Bucket

I'm after some advice please. We've had a Veissmann Vitodens 100 boiler fitted with the optional weather compensation module. The boiler is fitted on a south facing wall and there's no easy way to route the cable to a north facing wall for the outside temperature sensor. For now, the sensor is...

If you visit London at the moment, it sounds like most American citizens have re-located there. Soooo many of them. I'm not complaining mind - bring your $$$$$$s here.

I'm after some advice please to make sure I'm not having the wool pulled over my eyes. Current situation is that we have an old vented indirect system (Y-plan) with 2 x Mira Platinum showers (for gravity fed systems) in order to get decent pressure and flow for showering. The showers work...

What a choice we are being given. Sunak or Starmer. Still, it could be worse. We could live in the USofA.

I have a Eufy doorbell cam. Rings the main unit, our phones (via Eufy app) + an extra ringer I purchased. No subscription required. provides remote playback and live interaction. Works well but occasionally fails to detect human activity on the approach to our front door.

Hi all. My roof is quite a low pitch which means that the loft insulation butts up against the sarking (the damned stuff is non breathable bitumen) and it's a struggle to cover the edges of the ceiling below without blocking the eaves with insulation. So I was considering fitting some loft vent...

From now on, I shall refer to Belgium and France as "outer Germany".

Ahhh - thanks for that. I'll see what the return temp is and factor that in to my investigations.

My Glow-worm 24hxi (conventional boiler) has its flow temp set at 70 yet I often find it showing a flow temp of 55 with the burner modulated down to one or two bars. In my simple mind, I'd have expected it to be aiming to hit the 70 by modulating up. What am I missing here? Many thanks.

Thanks folks. So if I read this correctly, both are prone to fading but only cedral can be easily repainted. Right?

I'm after some opinions please. I'd like to clad over the ugly rough render on our house (it's been patched in many areas where building alterations have taken place and it just looks so ugly). Now, I realise many people will hate the idea of cladding anyway but if I'm to go down this route...

Camping gas stoves and gas, lots of tinned food, bottled water and an AR15 kept by the front door.

Hi folks. I'm a complete dumbass when it comes to the subject of smart TRVs etc and would like some advice please. Our current setup is a large'ish house with a single storey annex on the side. So quite a wide footprint. It's currently a single zone Y plan and for obvious reasons, I want to...

If rising damp isn't a real thing, then why is a DPC needed?

Yep - was one of the first jobs I did when we moved in (it's an old picture from when we first viewed the house). I can't imagine why anyone thought that pipe layout was aesthetically pleasing.