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I was told there was a change coming into law later this year where by the person who drew the plans had to ensure that what was built matched the plans. RIBA were advising members to charge a 1% fee of total project costs to cover this work. The architect I spoke to said that this fee would go...

I would like to get opinions on if I need an architect, or an architectural technician for my proposed extension. The house is a 1930's detached very typical of many houses built in the interwar period between 1920 and 1938. This picture is not the actual house but you get the general idea...

I can't recall the price of the unit but it seemed expensive with labour vs replacing 10+ year old unit which may have been getting towards end of life.

I believe so. The last engineer tried to clean it out a very flat sort of brush in between the internal fins. That presumably dislodged material as it made things worse.

For anyone finding this with a similar noise from their boiler the problem was a blocked heat exchanger. The boiler had been serviced but the engineer had not cleaned out the heat exchanger and it had become blocked. In the end it was impossible to unblock it and I had to get a new boiler...

I've got a 48 zone Galaxy dimension and have a question in regard to panic button wiring. I was thinking of getting one of these CQR panic buttons: https://cqr.co.uk/shop/intruder/panic-buttons/double-push-intruder/cqr-padp3_wh_m-push-button/ The spec. sheet says that is 24v and I am sure my...

Hi all, Does anyone understand the purpose of the intruder 04 output function on a Galaxy Dimenion? According to the output functions table (page 6-91 of the manual I have), this function is only activated when the alarm is fully set. If I part set the alarm, then this output function is not...

I'm currently in the process of getting some quotes to fully fill the floor and to see where that leads in terms of time, disruption and cost. I'll investigate the damp / water ingress issues at the same time.

Just had a look. Is it better to have a system embedded in screed so that it works more like a storage heater? Also on their website, they say about running the system at 50 deg. C. but Karndean quote a much lower temperature. Thanks in advance.

I've also considered exactly this. Can I fit a wet system on top of floor beams and solid insulation boards? What then goes on top of that? Some sort of screed?

Hi John, DPC: I will lift some boards and find out. I have a feeling it's a sort of slate between layers of brick, which based on what is visible on the garage which sits slightly lower than the rest of the house it's around 1 or 2 bricks below floor level in the rest of the rooms. For what...

I have noticed drops of moisture on the skirting boards in the same area the slugs were spotted. I was at a loss as to how they appeared there as the carpet isn't wet so I wasn't sure how the spots had formed. The floor boards under the carpet are also dry to the touch.

Isn't the ventilation needed because of the wooden joists so if they no longer existed it wouldn't be required? (I'm not a builder) I'm not sure there is any damp. I think the slugs just "wonder" in through the air bricks then find there way up through the floor boards.

Out of interest, what is the settling time?

I'm not familiar with block and beam as such. What do the beams sit on?