Recent content by Sonyman

Ok thanks, but what thickness of plywood or hardboard: 3mm, 4mm or 6mm, and does it matter if its hardboard or plywood?

Yes I realised later about using some sort of underlay, but then someone told me that if the existing floorboards are uneven, ie not level all the way through, then I would need to put down hardboard or plywood first. Also, again which type is best, lacquered or oiled? Thanks

Ok we have more or less decided on a Hickory engineered wood floor for our lounge, and I have a couple of questions. As the new floor is going over the top of an existing wooden floor (floorboards), do I need to lay anything down before the new floor is laid. Also, the hickory boards we saw...

My front lawn was 60% covered in moss earlier this year, and I used 2/3 sowings of the granule moss killer and 1 dousing of the soluble moss killer. Now the lawn is almost moss free, but there are large bare areas among the grass. Also the soil is so compacted and with large hollows and bumps...

I would like a reasonable gesstimate on re rendering 3 outside walls from the first floor upto the eaves on a semi detached house. Its an oldish 1930's semi which is built of brick on the outside from the ground upto the first floor, but then brick on the inside which is rendered on the...

I filled in a recess for a doormat in our entrance porch about a year or so back, and I just cut some spare timber/veneered wood I had left over from another job I had done to fill it in. I cut it to size, dropped it in, then levelled it using shims. After that I laid hardboard on top of it for...

Ok guys, thanks for the replies, and I will do as suggested, but first of all what is a prv? Just out of interest, I have not had to top up the boiler now for that last 7/8 days. Thanks

The house is a 1930's build with soil under the house. Yes you could be right there about it leaking under the house. I didn't want to think that as access is a bit tight to underneath, but we'll see what the next visit from the gasman brings

The pipes run under wooden floorboards. Mmmm, that sounds ominous!

We have a 4 year old combi boiler, which has been working well up untill we had some numpty try to fit a water meter to the hot water feed near the boiler and removed the pressure reducer from the cold feed, which caused a few joints to blow etc when we turned the heating on last September or...

Our Ariston combi boiler and CH system was fitted in 2001 and inihibitor was added then. Recently we had to have a new pump and diverter fitted, and AFAIK the boiler was drained. After the job was completed by BG, they went away and all was working ok. Now on here last week, I posted that as an...

I've just been reading up on this on another forum, and it seems like a big job, ie draining the sytem, taking the radiator off and replacing the TRV. err, no not yet I don't think. Thanks

I just had another look at the TRV and it seems that it doesn't just round and round, it does actually go up an down when turned, then comes to a stop as would be expected. So it looks like it is in need of replacing. What sort of job is this and could it be done by a non plumber? Thanks

Some years ago we had a radiator moved from one wall onto another, by some guy out of the local paper and since then the TRV has not worked, in that it just spins around and does not cool the radiator. I know we should have got him back to correct it but we didn't. I would like to know what is...

Ok, just an update here as to what the problem was when I posted last week about the warm/cold rads problem we had. We had a guy from BG to come and look at the boiler (Ariston Genus 27) and he said it was the pump or heating sensors, which he duly ordered and came back on Monday to fit. Whilst...