Recent content by rar4s

Despite hammering the lid down yesterday, and wrapping the whole thing in a bag, I found another 2cm of skin on this product today! Really bad.

Hi, guys. I am part way through laying 14mm engineered flooring over a pretty rough and uneven mixed concrete/wood floor. I have consciously NOT done this the "right" way (e.g. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/how-to-level-a-very-uneven-wooden-subfloor-or-concrete-wood.77960/) and am just...

Thanks, everyone. By the pipe size I can trace this upstairs to either the pipe that takes the cold header water down to the boiler, or one labeled "hot water expansion" which comes up, T's off the top of the hot water cylinder, and then carries on up to attic (presumably back into the header...

Here it is a bit cleaned up. The drip is still present, although I want to say it has slowed down but I must be imagining it as the cleaning couldn't have done that? Anyway, do we think tightening the end cap is a safe move, it's not going to just fall to pieces? It sounds like removing the...

Hi, guys. I have a Baxi backboiler setup, pretty old. There is a piece on the side wall of the fire/boiler with extensive corrosion or deposits, and a drip leak. Floorboard beneath are extremely wet, may have been going some time. Is it some kind of drainage point, what is it for? Dare I try to...

Well, chaps, I am pleased to say that this was solved. Returning to the property in daylight and paying more attention, I noticed that the door had no wobble at first, then some wobble when I turned the key proving that something was happening. There is another handle (knob, really) on the door...

I have installed one of these: https://yalehome.co.uk/77-traditional-nightlatch-60mm/ on a door to an area with no other entry routes. The key hole is on the outside. All worked fine for a period, many ins and outs, but attempting to get in yesterday I found myself locked out. Is this...

Here it is - it's going to be a sauna. The back wall shown. Clearance to the bricks is no more than 100mm. I have a big sheet of DPC I could use, what do we think of that? It's not "breathable" but if it's going basically be open (as in, not battened) at the top and bottom, will condensation be...

The brick wall runs along the sloping edge of the roof, so the only shedding from the roof will be the tiny fraction running off sideways from the very last ridge of the onduline. Given that previously the entire wall was fully open to the weather, and now ~3m of it are mostly shielded, overall...

The wall is about 2.8m highest and there's a pent roof - this wall is one of the sloping edges. I'm putting onduline on the roof and though there won't be flashing, I can make the onduline touch the brick wall itself, so there'll never be any direct weather on that wall. I may be able to get a...

Hi, guys. I have a studwork garden building which has had to be built very close to, but not touching, a higher brick wall. I have clad three exterior sides in shiplap, but the side close to the wall has about a fist of clearance and I can't nail or screw anything from that side. That side of...