Recent content by jbkirky

Try gas safe again, they normally come out and carry out a visual only from your property and then give advice. Limited advice mind due to it being a visual and data protection. Building control and enviromental health is the answer. Altho the dimensions above are correct for all boilers...

Mortor bed as in building sand 3 ; 1 or with some grit sand. Mate of mine who is a builder (too expensive and too busy) sasy he lays his on a good 5 sand 1 cement mix but the sand he uses is a bit gritter than normal building sand (straight from a quarry). When I did the patio on solid 5 ; 1...

Hi all, looking to lay 100m2 of indian stone (uncallibrated) for my driveway and wondered what the best bedding would be. Have already dug out and got down 100mm of hardcore on a good base. I laid a patio last year on 5 parts sharp sand and 1 part cement but fancy laying on cement as I think it...

Yeh, she mentioned that, I was always staying with SKY just did not want to upgrade to HD and begrudged paying £200 for a new box, thanks anyway.

Thanks for that, contacted sky and they will come and fit a new HD box, wanted £199 plus call out but got for £29 all in (after threatening to leave).

I have a standard white sky plus box that is starting to freeze. An engineer stated I need a new box (old one is about 7 years old). Can I buy a HD+ box from ebay, plug straight in and insert my old card (I have the full sky package but dont want to pay for HD as well). Cheers

I tried all the avenues and De Dietrich did not want to know, so I had to take out a warranty at a cost of £170 that covered everything for 1 year. When they came out under warranty they just changed all the circuit boards and said the parts alone would have cost approx £350. Not happy with De...

Will forward details tomorrow as in garage, also the cement gets right to the bottom of all the gaps making a good joint (bought the gun from staks). If the mix is spot on it makes it a very easy job, if not it clogs the gun easy. I mixed 3 to 1 with building sand from Selco (mate in trade said...

UPDATE; De Dietrich do not want to know, even went through the complaints department (I had to phone back after 3 days as they never got back to me), they still insist it is not under warranty as they never recieved the warranty card. Now the company who do the repairs under warranty have...

Did mine last month, bought a pointing gun (similar to a mastic gun but bigger) and did the lot in half hour. Just ensure the mix is spot on and use small grain building sand not the gritty stuff. This way you can try dodge the bad weather

Low water pressure. You will have a filling loop somewhere (normally under the boiler), the system needs topping up to 1 bar (when cold). The filling point may not have a tube attached (just 2 valve points) so make sure the filling tube is attached (screwed by hand) if not, you will need a...

If the boiler is fairly new it should have been notified to Local Building Control, usually via Gas Safe Register (GSR) or previously CORGI. GSR will offer a free visit if you log a complaint (via their website), but it will be visual only from your property unless the neighbour allows access...

I assume the boiler is fanned flued (ie 100mm diameter)? If so; Building regs state the flue should be 150mm from a window, door, opening into a building etc (horizontally and vertically). British Standard BS5440 (flues) state 300mm from an openable window, door, air vent etc, (horizontally...

Been on phone to De Dietrich numerous times as thought had a 2 year warranty (22 months old), they state that the warranty card was not recieved so void even tho I have the original reciept. Asked for a supervisor but no luck, they just state Im not on the computer. Contacted their head office...