Recent content by diynewtothis

Hi all, I’ve had leaking in my boiler down to my staircase during recent rainfall and had a builder come round and it may have been an issue with the flue pipe in the boiler. However, since it was only leaking during rainfall I suspected the roofing. I had another builder round who took one...

Definitely I think that’s our only option now. Thank you

Apologies for the late response. We called in a plumber as we were still unsure, but our plasterboard is definitely getting replaced due to the stain. Thank you for your recommendation.

Apologies for the extremely late response. That could definitely be a possibility. We still weren’t able to figure it ourselves so we’ve had to call in a plumber, hopefully it will be resolved

Hi everyone, I am unsure what’s happened as an area under the floor near the boiler in my upstairs room is damp. I suspect that the pipe underneath the floor was damaged when furniture was moved around recently, but I’m unsure if that’s related. There’s also been an awful smell ever since the...

Same with ours, it’s just hard to find the leak!

I’ve never tried taking it off but I’ll give it a go, thank you

That’s a good idea I’ll give that a go thank you

Hi everyone, Every so often water comes down the ceiling into our dining room. Right above the dining room is our toilet. I was wondering what needs fixing. I haven’t been able to see what’s going on because it’s every so often so I never know when it comes next to inspect. It leaves a dirty...

Thank you for your response and link I’ll have a read. Yes that is the plan! It will be made using hopefully recycled parts and anything lying around. It will be for a village so we have been told to keep the budget as low as possible. The set up has mostly taken inspiration from this video...

Thanks so much for your response and I changed it right away, does this look better or will it still not flow? Thank you

Hi everyone, I am doing an internship with a great organisation and the project I’m doing is a non electric shower. I’m going to present the plan of a thermosiphon shower. As I understand a thermosiphon should only have one tank. I watched a video of an off grid shower and it looked like it...

Thanks for replying. It’s wet concrete. I’ll definitely keep that as an option, thank you.

Thanks for your response I’ll look into that as we don’t seem to have any vents at all. Will drilling holes into the bricks be ok as I’m not too sure how to put air bricks. Or do you have a different suggestions

Hi everyone, Just wanted to see if there’s anything else I need to buy to rebuild my conservatory floor. It’s an old conservatory so it’s all windows and the floor was rotting with mold so we’ve taken that off. I’m planning to just buy wooden members and replace them and put in plywood panels...