Recent content by ChrisJP

When you say "if it leaks it's off to Court" I think you should consider discussing this again with the roofer and getting him back to do a proper job. If he won't co-operate then consider gritting your teeth and geting a better roofer in to fix the issue. This could end up cheaper than taking...

What are you wanting to clean? The visible roof tiles don't look as though they need a clean, but the moss-like stuff/weeds on the solar panels need to be removed. That could be done just by tearing them off, but not sure how you access solar panels without risk of breaking them. If there are...

In Britain, if you waited any time after rain before starting roof work, you'd never get started, because rain is so frequent.

Yup - looks like a pretty neat and tidy job to me. Presumably the slates that were replaced were because the old ones broke as they were removed. If the new ones are actual slate, they'll probably mellow as they age and eventually match the older ones. If they are composition "imitation"...

If I'd done that myself I wouldn't have been satisfied with it - it looks a mess. Where is the leak coming from? If it's that joint, the "plumber" may have used so much tape that it is actually preventing the tail screwing into the radiator fully.

You could try a nut splitter on the rounded off butterfly nut, or maybe just use a mole type wrench done up VERY tightly

Even better is to buy them online and get them delivered to your door free. You can get Stelrads and Prorads online for typically cheaper prices than getting them yourself from outlets.

I suspect this is just rainwater running down the vent pipe and not dripping clear of the wall. Still, I fear the only way to be sure is to get up there via ladder or scaffold when it's raining hard (!) and looking to see if rainwater is running down the pipe and not dripping clear.

Prorad are also part of the Strelrad group, but I think their radiators are made in Turkey. They are almost identical to Strelrad radiators - with to my mind a better way to fix the end panels - and are typically a little cheaper. They can be bought online with rapid delivery, which is much...

Yes, microbore piping seems to create problems quite often - it's more prone to block if there is any debris in the system. Best to change as much as you can to 15mm piping. Also, if you do get to look at the manifold, take it off and flush it through. It's quite possible that the outlets...

Yes - what you need to get to it is not really "mains" - you already have an always on live wire that's from the "mains" and a switched wire that feeds the live supply to the boiler whan the thermostat is calling for heat. What you need in addition is a neutral wire from the same supply that...

I googled 3.5uF 250VAC capacitor and quite a selection of offers came up.

You won't drain the hot water tank - instead, once the cold water feed tank has drained, the flow of hot water from the hot water tank will stop. But there'll probably be a stop cock on the outlet of the cold water tank that feeds the hot tank. If there is, close that, open the hot taps and the...

For a TRV to work, it has to have the water flow into the radiator passing through it so it can regulate the flow according to the temperature of the room. If you could somehow get a TRV which didn't have any feed pipe connection (which your picture apparently shows) how could it work?

What I meant was that if you placed the zinc sheet over the hole and then sealed around it, it will have left a crevice between the outside of the pipe and the inside of the zinc sheet. If on the other hand you placed sealant around the hole and then bedded the zinc into it, that would have...