Recent content by John McLaren

Thanks all. What a great site this is. I stripped the fill valve and found it full of “gunge”, probably not surprising after 18 years use. It’s now working Ok. I will replace it though and that flimsy plastic isolation valve. Thanks again all for the very useful advice

Thanks guys. Much appreciated

Good morning all, Our concealed cistern toilet flush/ fill valve is leaking quite badly from its top cap in the picture. The water is going down the overflow but we’re losing a lot every day. The small isolation valve to the left is also leaking when I turn it off. I’d like to replace both...

Thanks very much I shouldn’t really complain. The system is 18 years old, although the boiler is fairly new.

Hi all, the other day I noticed that our Honeywell ST6400C was showing a red light for “heating” but the heating slider switch has been set to “off” for the last couple of months. I cycled the heating slider switch across to “continuous” and back left to “off” and the red light went out. Any...

He was the only one I could find............yep I was desperate. The mortar works look like he had a blindfold on.......so I’m not that keen on having him back. I can tidy the tiles up as some of them have just slipped down.......any tips on mortaring up the sides? Thanks John

Hi all, Thanks to Datarebal and Barthy for their advice on our Porch leak back in October. They suggested removing some tiles either side of the porch roof valley to have a look. I eventually found a local roofer who came last week. He said it would take him two days. He removed the pintiles...

Thanks datarebal and Barthy......wish you guys were up here in Beccles! The roofer who replaced the valley mortar 5 years ago is a nice guy. He’s done a few jobs for us and always tries his best to come out and help at short notice. He’s here tomorrow to take out the valley mortar and we can...

Thanks datarebal, much appreciated. Inside the roof I can see and feel the valley fillet mortar pushing against the membrane and bulging it over the valley board. The membrane is soaking wet just above the top of the valley board in a few places. This is running down the valley board into the...

Hi datarebal, Thanks for the reply. mortar was replaced 5 years ago by a local roofer. He didn’t spot the missing lead welt/tilt I’ve added some extra pics showing the complete porch, valley mortar, damp area, wet valley boards, wet membrane. Cheers John

Thanks Barthy, The valley lead is 450mm and channel is about 200mm wide. Are the fibre cement strips meant as an additional barrier ? Cheers John

Hi Barthy, The weather here is not so good for removing the porch valley tiles this next week Just wondering if I could remove the lead valley mortar fillets and use a mastic sealer to make a temporary welt down each side of the lead to tide me over the winter? Thanks

Hi and thanks for the quick reply. There is no welt on the lead valley The roof pitch on the leaking side is 35 degrees John

Hi all. This is my first post so please be kind. In May this year our porch was showing a leak on the plasterboard ceiling where the porch wall meets the house. The porch is 12 years old, three sided into the corner of our L shaped bungalow, with a pitched, pintiled roof and two lead valleys...