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Well i had a guy out tonight to look at the job while he was servicing the boiler. I measured up & showed him the rad length - 1760mm. He said about going for a 1700mm rad & putting spacers on to make it fit. I had a look at screwfix & Wickes & there's no such 1700mm radiator at all. 1600...

I've just had a measure up & looked at http://www.myson.co.uk/products/premier_he_imperial.asp#tabbed-2 The length is 1759mm or 69" which matches the website above. The height on the other hand is 600mm. Not very imperial.

We bought in Nov 2013 but moved in March 2015. The living room has already been taken back to brick on one wall & it will be on the other walls also, so it wont matter really about the brackets. Downstairs i remember being actually quite chilly. Upstairs is nice & warm but downstairs really...

I started discussing this in a thread i had on gas fires but i don't want one thread to go all over the place so i'll ask this here. Basically the main radiator in the living room (single convector) we will want to be replacing so that it is at least a double panel convector. Double panel...

Age I've no idea - they were in when we bought the house in 2013. How long they've been in is anyones guess. Converting to inch gives you 68 & 57/64 off of 1750mm. What would be done in this case? I imagine you'd somehow have to get an 1800mm to fit? I do know that the piping coming up from...

It was mentioned about the radiators. As said, our living room is 7mtr-x-3.5mtr-x-2.5mtr(high) Our main radiator in there is a single panel convector rad with a smaller double panel convector in the far corner. Are our radiators odd job sizes though? Because i looked on the Wickes website &...

I have no idea how the sensors have been put in to be honest with you. When you say upgrade "everything else" - do you mean the window sensors & PIR sensors? The alarm system right now isn't active. We had to deactivate it for some work being done & we can't remember how we did it & how to put...

Thanks. And if a mod sees this can they move it to the appropriate forum. Don't know why i didn't put it in the Alarms section. Divvy. <Moderator's note> You can use the "report" option to request it.

Out of curiosity, what would your suggestion be? I appreciate you haven't seen the whole thing for yourself, but still...

Again, this is what we was told - solid floor would resolve the problem As there would be no moisture under the floor joists & boards as well as there being no joists & boards full stop. The walls (on that method) would been given an anti sulphate wash with K11 applied so then no damp coming...

Would this then make it all a little pointless? As if the internal hall switch is on - the light would surely be on at all times (as would currently be the case)? This is maybe where my lack of knowledge exposes me :)

We have an old system in place (Scantronic 9448+). It's a wired system. I don't know exactly how old in it but the battery has a 1999 written on it :) In short we'd like to upgrade it. What would an upgrade entail? I would imagine a bit more than taking the box off & putting a new one...

At the moment we have a light outside our front door that is controlled by a on/off switch on the inside of the door in the hall. What we want is a light that will come on when you stand at the door - enough for you to get your keys out of your bag, see where the lock is on the door etc...

Regards the breathing side of things - I can't answer you i'm afraid. I just go off what the 'professionals' say. I trust that they're (supposed) to know their stuff.

No, we weren't asked. Next door was rental, the owner was (godknowswhere) & had to sell up. It was this guy who got someone out to deal with the damp issue (those renting had moved out). At no point were we told what was going on. We only found out because we went round & asked. After this...