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I'm finding it hard to get a pic that shows what's actually going on as I can only work it out by sticking my hand down there to feel around, but the drain hole is on the side of the drain about 10cm from the bottom and not the bottom of the recess. So whatever is going in there has to then lift...

Its London and unfortunately we get rats if I do that.

I own a ground floor flat. The flat upstairs is tenanted and their kitchen waste pipe empties into a drain that is in my garden. Despite being told again and again not to, the tenants put endless food down the drain - rice, sweetcorn, fat and god knows what else. It collects on top of the drain...

We are planning a PD loft conversion. The house has a gable front and back, and the roof apex runs front to back, sloping side to side. At the sides there are no eaves, none at all. The roof slope ends at the brick wall, and then there's guttering along the wall. The architect tells me we need...

No, just today.

I've patched a couple of small areas of hearth at either side of my wood burner. They areas are both triangular, about 10cm each side of the triangle and only about 1 - 1.5cm deep, just aesthetic repair after the fireplace was altered. I know normal curing time for concrete is about 30 days, but...

The two rads are on their own ‘spur’ I suppose. One tails off the spur half way to the other - like branches of a tree.

We have trv’s on all the rads. But the system still needs balancing as two rads are barely getting any heat but we still want all the rads fully hot so turning down the trv’s wouldn’t solve the problem.

I'm using the largest slotted screwdriver that fits. Its a very large head. Masses of pressure. Nothing happening.

I don't think so. Doesn't turn either way, but the one that does work turns the usual anti-clockwise.

Sadly we’ve tried that. Not moving at all.

Its a sealed system @Mottie. Problem is, that's probably something I'd not be comfortable doing myself so obviously more costly as i'd need a plumber. So if any chance I can unstick that'd be good.

We have a new central heating system. It was installed piecemeal as the house was extended, so more rads added on, and they haven’t been balanced properly so the furthest ones in the kitchen extension (which are huge column rads) are not hot enough. simple enough job to balance the rads, or so I...

Thanks. How do you attach it to the ceiling? Just with adhesive?

Yes, on the other side of the room