Recent content by Gary111

Hi, I spoke to someone recently whose house had been flooded by speeddfit pipes. Apparently they hadn’t had enough pipe clips. On looking under my sink the clips aren’t attached, they are mostly loose from the hardboard backing. The pipes also look a bit out of line. Is there anything I should...

Thanks so much for your help. It’s a wired base and wireless battery powered thermostat. The terminals don’t even tighten up properly to hold the wire, I’m going to have to send it back and just get an old fashioned dial thermostat I think. Thanks again.

Thanks, So if I get mains to it I can use the existing wires to switch it .

hi, it’s a fairly old boiler , at the moment the thermostat only has 2 wires ( which I assume are mains?) The boiler is ideal Mexico. I’ve had a centaur timer thermostat that’s been fine for ages but started just clicking on and off avery 5 minutes. Having ordered this all singing dancing...

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Hi, my toilet is dripping from where the 15mm pipe joins to the inlet valve. I’m not sure if the plastic on the inlet selves thread may be cracked? There’s main stop tap is very tricky to undo once tightened, it’s on lead pipe so ideally don’t want to mess with that. It’s a boxed in toilet...

Hi mate I am thinking of doing the fillet this week, whats the usual reason for doing that please ? I've seen it on a few houses, often painted. Also it's a concrete floor so I guess that's not helping. Any advice would be appreciated Thanks

Does the fillet seem to be something that might help?

Yes it seems to get the worst of the driving rain, although it's generally a cold flat with a fairly high humidity level. They suggested that as they thought the amount of water running down was soaking in at the bottom. I think the area near the door doesn't get much sun also.

Ideally if I can reduce the rain hitting the wall hopefully it would help.

Hi I've got a solid brick wall that seems to get damp and cold. I had a couple of damp specialists look at it and one suggested putting some cement at an angle at the bottom to help the rain water run away from the building. I was wondering if I put some kind of canopy / shelter type thing...

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