Recent content by Burrower

Hi. We've recently moved house and I'm hoping to build a small (3.3m x 2m) garden office. Foundations are going to be either groundscrews (not cheap - 1300 for professionally installed 1.2m screws) or Easypads/similar. The latter are much cheaper - probably about half that cost with some MOT...

I'm fairly sure the builder is not a member of any trade body. How much should I expect to pay for a roofing survey? The roof is mainly slate. The house is a largish 3-bed house, 1.5 storey with two dormers. Plan view is a T-shape i.e. an (old) extension sticking out the back (the stalk of the...

Theoretically this shouldn't be a DIY question, but it's becoming one. I've had most of our house re-roofed by a builder, but am becoming a bit suspect as to the quality of the work. He's already been back to fix some issues (twice now) and I've also fixed another issue myself; seemed less...

Thanks. Correct answer! :D

Hi, Possibly a silly question... I've a roughly 18" concrete cube holding a metpost socket... unfortunately we live next to a playground where kids often send their footballs over our fence. One kiddie retrieving a football ran over the setting concrete about 3-3.5 hours after pouring it...

Ta for the info. The boiler is (we think) 8 years old, but the plastic body of the turbine looked fine to the eye. I'll check the connection tomorrow. It has indeed got damp in there due to leaks caused by the condensate pipe icing up. About 6" of the overflow pipe is outside, though it...

Hi, Our Ecomax failed to give any HW today. After looking around the net, mainly this forum, it appears the HW flow is not detected. I have checked the diagnostic mode - d.22 - it is 0 (no flow). Also the 'tap' icon on the LCD display was failing to come on. I cleaned the 'turbine' as...

Thanks - not the answer I wanted but the answer I needed nevertheless! As its getting on a bit I'm not keen enough to bother fixing it - I'll see if there are any keener punter's on Freegle! -- Tim.

My other half did indeed comment that it was sounding noisy before it stopped. It has had some clunking noises before also from time to time. -- Tim.

Hi, We have a secondhand WMA34 (it was left in the house we have just moved into). It worked a few times, but no more. The drum has stopped turning. After reading this //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18792 a hefty turn with the paddles moved it. Its not entirely free though...