Recent content by dave7

Ok thanks for the pointers, have checked the burner plug that is ok not fully checked the motor yet, but once it fires up it works ok on the thermostat starting and stoping in that period that I have set it to be on, it's the initial start up that seams to cause the most problems.

Hi The boiler has an intermittent fault when firing, sometimes it will start on the timer no problem and other times I need to give the side of the boiler a gentle thump to get it to kick in. I am a qualified spark but boilers aren't my speciality but don't mind investigating just looking...

I fitted my own kitchen except worktops, and done base units first and only realised that perhaps it would have made life alot easier if i had done the wall units first, as i was having to lean and drill and hang from quite far away and it was really ackward, if you do hang wall units first then...

great, thanks think il just take it all off and leave it looks alot nicer without it. cheers

Hi After being let down by my tiler and we are desperate to get our kitchen finished, i have decided that i may be able to tile my kitchen floor. Pretty good at practical tasks have managed to renovate the house, with only the plumbing and plastering done by profesionals. Have searched...

thanks for the quick reply, by physical dpc, you mean what looks like thin roofing felt runing in the 3rd course from floor level all the way round, and it is lower than the internal floor level? What puzzels me is that all the houses in the street have this bit of concrete running all...

Hi Around the bottom of my house is a concrete plinth like render all the way round, and its all crumbling off, so had a deeper investigation of it too me it does not serve a purpose its comes up three courses of brick and covers the damp proof course. Can i just chip it all away and be...

Hi no he did not pva and allow it to go tacky, i did quiz him on it and he just brushed me of un like the walls i expect that once the orginal pva had gone hard the dust also setled and did not allow good adhesion. Thanks for all your help a least i have a little more knowledge, and he has...

Hope someone can advise please I have had a plasterer reskim my whole house and there have been several patchs and 2 whole walls have had to be re done because the plaster has just bubbled up and come off when applying the mist coat, we put pva 5-1 mix on the walls, they had been painted...

you will need 4 different connection points. 1 earth 2 neutral 3 loop feed (permanet live) 4 switched live(return live from switch) 1 Firstley connect all the earths from the ceiling togehter in a connecter block, 2 now take all the blue wire from the ceiling and connect them...

Hi Have read several threds and cant quite get the answer im looking for. I need to move the main internal stopcock in the newly aranged kitchen do not want it as a feature in the middle of the room, however i was going to get a plumber to do this but have been let down twice and really...

Hi Have rewired my new house and will be chasing in the cables and the heating pipes, need advice on how to prep the walls ready for a skim of plaster, how do i need to protect the pipes from the plaster to stop cracking, i was going to cover my chases and with bonding plaster my self...

Hi recently purchased my first house, and i the throws of renovating it, i would like to know if i can buy a standard 2600mm(floor-floor) rise staircase and trim 5cm of each end trim the treads and risers and lower it to 2500mm, this may be a silly question wanted to put my mind at rest and...