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strange this as our local council some years ago had to put in cavity wall insulation upon completion they sealed up every vent into the house then rebored one as all the houses where on solid fuel heating , i bought one of the houses but noticed in the corner of the hall way under the stairs...

plus a good plasterer will be able to do the job quicker and neater than you can with jointing compound

fibreboard for below laminate flooring is very good for sound insulation two of the upstairs bedrooms have laminate 1 has very thin polystyrene and when a matchbox type car is dropped it sounds as though someone has just dived from the top of a wardrobe , the other room recently done with...

regular watering can full of weedkiller should prevent the weeds getting attached and if sanded properly you shouldnt get that many in any case

use a vent outlet to attach the pipe to and cut it into the soffit

cavity wall toggle plugs , look like a bolt with 2 hinged wings on them put them in hole and the wings expand thus the bolt cannot come back out p.s make sure you put the bolt through the blind bracket first

worse case scenario ?? the thermister part is cheap i could buy it and get the gasman to install it thus saving on the markup price , but what if crud is in the heat exchanger is this a new part or can it be flushed out ?? saying this as a precaution i had the system cleaned drained and...

the house we moved into has this boiler already installed with the instructions etc left with it , i had to remove a radiator from the wall so the plasterer could get behind this obviously dropped the pressure on the boiler ,so i refilled the boiler upto 1 bar , since this about a week ago...