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Hi, I'm connecting with Virgin Fibre Broadband next week (self install). Can someone tell me what I need to do with what I have currently to be able to connect to the box when it arrives? I can pass the circled end into the house at the point where the router will sit. The cable from the...

Thanks for taking the time for such a detailed response.

Cheers John. Next question, any value in them?

Does anyone know anything about these?

Hi, Turbomax is losing pressure and needs topping up a couple of times a day. What I've checked - No leaks in all the pipework I can easily get to. No marks on ceilings etc. - Isolated CH flow and return at boiler and pressure still drops. - PRV is not venting, have never seen the pressure...

I've discovered that one of the chimney breasts was removed at ground floor but not supported where it met the ceiling/floor above. Effectively just hanging. There is a steel beam supporting the front edge of the chimney breast in the loft when it was converted (at the top of where the photos...

Hope this is a bit clearer. Air brick outside. Looking at adding another where I have circled. There is one to the right as well. The orange wall is behind the air brick you can see. Below is where the air brick lines up in the kitchen. The air path effectively telescopes but I can't get a...

Enjoy a bit more space and look for somewhere else to hang things. Floorwise, the joists run through underneath probably just short of where I took the first photo. The floor will continue where the wall was.

There is one clear airbrick on the outside of the wall with the photo (it's a short wall before solid concrete floor). The other end of the joists is the party wall under the kitchen cabinets - have broken out some pipes buried in concrete but haven't got the sill plate yet to look at its...

Thanks for the replies. I was nervous about replacing rotting wood with new wood that will go the same way. The wall was injected before I moved in, this had the affect of slowing down the appearance of damp on the wall but the rot continued merrily underneath. With excavation, ventilation and...

Hi All, My kitchen floor is bouncy so pulled a few boards and I have quite a bit of moisture and rot. It looks like some floor boards where replaced at some time but nothing was done about airflow so the problem has come back under my ownership. I've been excavating a lot of debris and soil...

For those following along at home, I finally got around to a bit more investigating under the floor. The boards aren't coming up very easily but need to keep them in reasonable condition until replacement. There appears to be a low wall running parallel with the joists which has a load of...

I've chased out some redundant wiring from a rendered internal wall and now need to make good. The rest of the render is drummy and loose so ideally needs to be removed before it removes itself. Is putting battens up and plasterboard/skimming an acceptable method in this case? Will this reduce...

I'm in a similar situation where I need to do some more exploring. I have no standing water, it's bone dry underneath but the party wall foundation was damp (now drying out hopefully). It sounds in your case like bridging causing the damp. Have you checked the air bricks and that you have good...

Thanks for the recommendation of the book, I've tracked a copy down. I'll check for the dpc but may have to remove some external render to get a better look. I'll probably need to go back to near sleeper wall to make good the joists so will look at a honeycomb style construction at that time...