Recent content by gwernybwch

It did my house with an Octo LNB. It's a messy job and was a right pain at the time. But I'm SO glad that I did it now. Freesat / Sky in every room without the need for boxes, boosters, splitters etc. I used good quality products, long cable runs so the signal is rock solid. You're on the right...

So....if you are getting ALL the channels on the other receivers it is unlikely to be an issue with the dish, lnb or cable into house. Some kind of indication of the channels that are missing would be useful. I presume that if you are missing UK Drama, you are also missing Yesterday, Dave and...

See above, there are other differences in Free to air Satellite and FreeSat TV's apart from the EPG. It is unlikely that the satellite receiver built into the TV will only receive one or the other of horizontal or vertical. So you are saying that your Sky box receives all the channels, but your...

Which channels are you actually missing? And do you get those channels on your satellite receiver? Does your TV actually have 'FreeSat' module installed on your TV? I have a LG TV, even though it has a satellite receiver built-in, it isn't sold as a FreeSat TV. This means that every time a new...

That's a fair point. It just seemed that as I have it back to bare brick that I should do something like strap it. I had the house surveyed 20 years ago and the surveyor at the time seemed very unconcerned about it, saying something about poor design and historical movement. Definitely no...

I was wondering what you do to 'fix' this? Essentially it is / was the back wall on a Victorian house and there has been historic subsidence. The wall is a 'stand alone' wall and would have been the back of the house, but at due to the subsistence has at some point dropped. The movement at its...

When you say that you are having Sky "installed" next week, do you actually have a satellite dish (or an aerial for that matter) on your house at the moment? As others have said, if there is no satellite cabling already installed the Sky installer is going to chose the easiest option possible...

@Lucid thanks for the reply. I (also) didn't realise that TV aerials were so technical! I fitted what I thought was a 'good quality' aerial to my house in Mid Wales, but didn't really get a great signal. Maybe it was because it was the wrong type of aerial. The channels are on 22 to 28. My...

Thanks all for the replies. The message of 'use a log periodic aerial' is coming through loud and clear! With regard to cabling to the aerial, is Webro still a good make of cable? And WF100 a good choice? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Been asked by a friend about omni-directional TV aerials. The situation is that their TV aerial is attached to the chimney and the redundant chimney stack is being taken down. There is no obvious other high place to put an aerial and putting it at the front of the house would mean a lot of...

@alastairread it's a tenanted property. I can almost guarantee that at some point something will break, fail or taps will be left on etc. Seen and heard it all before..... It would be thermal insulation. The room is a dank, sunless room which currently never really seems to get 'warm'. There...

I've pulled down the ceiling in the living room and what to put some insulation back up there before I put up a new plasterboard ceiling. Is it OK to put foil faced PIR boards between the joists as insulation? Ideally I would like to use something other than glass fibre as part of what is above...

Thanks all for the replies. The roof is a ventilated space, so the old decking will dry out (and touching it, it feels like it has already done so). But I'm guessing that the old stuff will continue to rot. It looks like the new decking was at least attempted to be screwed to the joists...

So as an update on this. The roof continued to leak to the point where I couldn't wait for the total kitchen renovation planned for the summer, so I got a roofer in to re-do the flat roof. I'm not able to be at the house when he does the job, but sends me pictures as it is on-going. He sends me...

Thanks for the replies. Do you think that it is possible for damp to enter (via a break in the seal of the window against the wall) and then work across horizontally and then vertically? That's a good point, outside there is a drain pipe and a soil stack that would run close to the vertical...