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    Wireless Thermostat. Please help.

    I have a Worcester Greenstar 24i junior boiler with a wireless room thermostat. The room thermostat has stopped working and is displaying "E1". The manaual said that the sensing unit needs to be replaced. The boiler is working fine for hot water and the programme function is still working...
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    Wooden flooring with curved walls.

    Hi all, We have an old cottage which has rounghly rendered walls in the lounge. There are no straight walls and I could not fit skirting board to it which is why we had carpet fitted. The carpet is getting old and with two little ones it is getting stained. My wife now wants a wooden...
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    Fence Post depth

    Thanks for your help. Can anyone sort out some sunshine for me to work in at the weekend too? 8)
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    Fence Post depth

    Hi, I am putting up a picket style fence this weekend. I am using 100mm x 100mm posts. I want the fence to be a metre tall and have ordered 1.5 metre posts allowing 500mm under the surface. I am using postmix to secure them. Will the 500mm underground be enough? I was working on...
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    Outside tap problem.

    OK. Thanks for your reply. More digging for me then!!
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    Outside tap problem.

    Hi, I have an old outside tap that consists of a spur from the mains water pipe that is old black alkathine pipe. I want to get rid of it as we are knocking down the wall it was on to make a bigger area for turning the car round. I have dug down to try and find where it connects to the...
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    Chrome waste fittings 40mm?

    Thanks for that Charnwood. Very helpful and good use of the word codswallop! Sorry for being thick but... This is the one I want and will be going to plumbers merchant to get one...
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    Chrome waste fittings 40mm?

    Hi, I am putting a Belfast sink into my uility room supported on two reclaimed brick pillars. We don’t want to have an ugly plastic trap and waste pipe underneath, but I can only find 32mm chrome botlle traps and I need a 40mm one. Anyone have any suggestions? Also the original waste...
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    Laundry room waste pipe

    Hi We have just had our laundry room re-built and I am going to put the washing machine and a sink back in there. Space is a bit tight and I was hoping to use 32mm waste pipe. I'm sure this will be fine for the sink, but what about the washing machine? I was going to use a trap with a...
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    Bitumen paint running with water

    The earth behid the wall is about 6 foot. The land belongs to somebody else so cant touch it. Sorry dont have a drawing. It has always been a utility room, but was more of a lean to temporary construction before. We never had an issue with damp before, but my builder said that's what he'd...
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    Bitumen paint running with water

    No the retaining wall was existing I didnt build it.
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    Bitumen paint running with water

    Hi all, I have a retaining wall at the side of my house that is now going to be part of our utility room. My builder has built the wall up higher and put the roof on. He suggested painting the whole retaining wall in bitumen paint before putting up battons and plaster boarding it. I have...
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    Replacing external render

    I won't be re-rendering it personally, but I will check with the builder what he is using. Thanks for your advice. I postponed hacking it off until I could book him in to re-render it. So this weekend I will mostly be up a ladder hacking away at the side of my house. Didn't want to watch the...
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    Replacing external render

    Hi All. My next job on the house is to remove the old exterior render on the side of the house. I am happy doing this with a small sds drill and hammer and chisel, but I am concerned about leaving the wall exposed until I get a builder to re-render it. It is an old house approximately 150...
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    Can I bury a Gas Pipe to bottled gas?

    Thanks. It's always nice to have the anominity of the internet to ask these stupid questions!
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