Recent content by greenhouse24

I know there are a lot of threads on here regarding loft condensation - I've already read many of them - but despite improving the ventilation I still encountered problems last winter. The property is a late 80s detached house. A few years back I replaced much of the original loft insulation...

The piece along the horizontal centre of the photo, with a know in the side and on top.

I'm doing some fairly minor work in my loft, adding some solid insulation boards in a poorly insulated area. I want to run 50mm wood at right angles across the existing beams, to allow a double thickness of solid insulation with loft boards on top. I have some pretty cheap untreated wood from a...

Just to say thanks for the advice - a cistern stopper was just the job.

I noticed a leak in the bathroom yesterday from around the toilet and eventually tracked it down to a leak from the cistern. The cistern has two holes in the bottom, one has the water feed in and one is fitted with a rubber bung. The bung had a nut of some form on the bottom to hold it tightly...