Recent content by elpresidente

Thanks to all - on further investigation it seems to be the shredded cellulose stuff, and yes I will just put more insulation over the top.

Hello My loft is boarded throughout. I recently discovered that underneath the boards is a very strange insulation material - basically it looks & feels something like what you'd put in a hamster's cage - i.e. loose material, quite scratchy and looks liek a cross between scrunched up...

Yep, makes sense to get a professional in. It's a 4-bed house and we haven't been skimping on the heating so usage is probably par for the course. thanks all

Moved into this house in October which has oil-fired central heating which I have not used before. The boiler is in the garage and the tank is in the back garden approx 5m away. The feed pipe is buried. When I moved in I fairly regularly smelt oil around the tank and the area of the feed...

Outside my kitchen door I have a large drainage gully into which flows the outflow from the kitchen sink and appliances, and also the guttering. These drain free into the gutter (if that makes sense). Alongside are the waste pipe from the toilet and the air pipe, which are concreted in and go...

Thanks guys. There's a basin and a dishwasher on that pipe as well, i just didn't add them to the diagram!

Quite a long one this so bear with me. I have even included a dodgy diagram! The pop-up plug on my bath is broken, so to empty the bath you need to pull the whole plug physically out of the plughole. I think this means that the water flows away much quicker than it would if the plug just...

Ok, thanks guys

to be honest it's in a cupboard and I never look at it so only saw it today. I will do that. Does it need to be switched off / cold? thanks

There is a 0 reading and the gauge doesn't move whether it's on or off. Heating & hot water work fine though. Have I got a problem? Should I even be running the boiler when it's 0 pressure? Or might it just be a broken gauge? thanks

Finally got a moment to look at this properly - popped the spring clip off the top of the tab body, took it to pieces, wiped some bits of limescale off various parts, put it together and it's working perfectly. Thanks all for your help.

At work at the moment, I will post pics this evening thanks

I don't know I'm afraid, is there an easy way to find out? Sorry for my ignorance I am fairly new to this

My kitchen mixer tap is leaking, I stripped it down and the tap core is very very stiff. OK no problem just replace it but it is a half-turn unit (with a semi-circular opening), the shops I have been too only have quarter-turn units, and suck their teeth when I ask how I can get a replacement...

thanks, I feared you might say that :(