Recent content by chives

I have recently had a new condensing boiler installed in the loft. It replaced a 20 year old floor standing boiler on the ground floor in the middle of the house. I hadn't realised the effect of the frost protection system on the new boiler. If the air temp falls below 5 deg C, it fires...

Thanks big-all. That looks a lot easier than taking up the entire patio. I think I'll have to lift several blocks to find the vents, and I may as well leave a gap as a plant bed. I'll follow your advice on the lip to prevent rain water.

My house is a detached house with brick cavity walls, built in 1960s. It has a suspended timber ground floor. Previous owners had block paving installed around the outside, and this has decreased the ground level to DPC gap to about 100 mm. It has also covered all the underfloor airbricks...