Recent content by stressout

thanks. insurers appraisal guy was just out and had some ideas (maybe the flashing but also the tiles are quite small and there are a lot of them so maybe it could be them. roof pitch is probably the main culprit and there's not a lot I'm going to be able to do about that!

Our home has a single-story extension that was built about 3-4 years ago (by previous owners). The room has six velux skylights. It is a lovely room BUT when it rains heavily, water marks are showing on the ceiling (usually right near the skylights). At first it was only below one skylight. When...

we are adding a new bathroom to our ground floor. We would like to do a wetroom-style shower area (eg no shower tray - just tiled floor with slight slope down to drain and a small glass screen). Has anyone done this? What problems did you have? How 'deep' did your drainage have to be? Thanks

We've got almost no hot water now. Get a short burst when initially turn a hot tap on, but then nothing. CH still OK. The plumber is certain it is either a sensor OR the PCB so both have been ordered with installation hopefully tomorrow pm. Does that sound right? To be honest, we had a...

Thanks ChrisR for the swift response. From where I was sitting (working away on my laptop) I could see him testing things and he was running the hot water while doing it. He says it's def not the diaphragm (sp?). I told him i'd been investigating online. He's ordering the control board just in...

Plumber has been - it's either a sensor (can't remember exact name) or the PCB! Does that make sense given the problem that I posted? He says it's def not related to the other work they did for us last month, but my husband is not convinced it's a coincidence! I tend to believe the plumber as he...

The background to this is that about a month ago we had rads off and new rads on so the system was drained twice. Since then our HW supply has been poor (takes ages to heat up, then cuts out) and it's getting worse. It took about half an hour to run a very shallow bath for my daughter last...