Recent content by Jules03

http://www.chimney-cowl.co.uk/shop/Top-Lid-3.html That's the cap that was on the pots that we removed. I'll get back to all the other points asap. Thanks again - much appreciated.

Sorry, I've just re-read it all and it's not very clear is it! Right, the chimney is on the gable end. It has 2 chimney pots on. One flue serves the kitchen and the other flue serves the bedroom which is above the kitchen. The bedroom fire is not used and hasn't been for many years. In...

Hi Thanks again for your reply. We have physically seen the flaunching and stack and all is fine. The repointing and flaunching was re-done about a year ago. We had a smoke test done as well and everything was fine there. The photo has gone onto my profile I think. One thing we...

Thanks for your reply. No, the chimney breast hasn't been dry lined and yes, it is an outside wall. We've been in touch with the chimney man who put the caps on the pots for us and he used Colt caps on them which are ventilated. We had the stacks repointed about 18 months ago and the...

Hi We have an old farmhouse which was built roughly 1860. We have 2 chimneys on the main roof. One has 2 flues in (kitchen and upstairs bedroom) and the other has 2 flues in (reception room and another upstairs bedroom). We've had a couple of the bedrooms replastered as we've dry...

It's not that damp. I've been researching it all day and have seen there was a sealant you could put on external walls - like a weathershield sealant. Maybe I've misread about it. Will have another look. I just wondered if anyone had any recommendations if there was such a product.

Maybe I've not worded it correctly - previously when we've done an extension on a previous property, we put pva on the walls in preparation for plastering. Isn't there some sort of sealant that you can put on the existing plaster that has some sort of barrier on or is it just a case of...

Hi. We're currently renovating an old property and the external walls are quite damp as there is no insulation in the property. We have looked into solid wall insulation but have decided against it as it the house would be a real problem to do throughout. Before we get the walls skimmed...

Hi everyone We're currently replacing the floor in our loft space. It's an old house and all the floorboards had previously had woodworm and were in a bad state. We're looking at getting some tongue & groove floorboards but we're wondering whether to get tanalised wood or just normal...

Hi everyone We are currently renovating a house and are about to start insulating the solid 9" external walls with K18 insulated plasterboard. One question - what thickness do you get? What difference is there between the thinnest and the thickest? With Building Regs for the loft...

Many thanks for your replies. The guy who installed our stove did carry out a smoke test with the liner and no smoke was seeping through. It isn't a smoke smell that is in our bedroom upstairs and the neighbours have said it's definitely not a smoke smell that they are experiencing - I would...

Hi and thanks for your reply. No, we just had the liner put in - no insulation inbetween the liner and the chimney. We don't have any strong smell in our house unlike our neighbours. We do have a slight smell in the bedroom above our living room though.

Hi everyone I'm hoping someone can help us with a problem we are having at the moment with a new wood burning stove. We had an Aga Much Wenlock fitted a few weeks ago now and have used it 3 times. Our house is joined on to another house and their chimney is right next to ours. We do know...

We are very lucky to have one of the notorious Baxi Bahama 100's. To be fair, it's been ok for us - albeit a few flow switch changes. Unfortunately, it has decided to not work at all now! My husband has changed the flow switches in the hope that's what needed doing but to no avail...

Update - it isn't the spark generator. I bought a new one from Hotpoint, it arrived and my gas man fitted it and it's still making the same noise. We have now ordered an electrode for it in the hope that it's that. My gas man is abit stumped but he tried cleaning the electrode and it...