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I'm wanting to lay some solid block parquet to my ground floor - 22mm thick, square edged, cleaned reclaimed blocks but they have some bitumen residue in the grain on the undersides. I thought I'd better check the fixing technicalities before I part with my cash, and have been going round and...

I'll look inside the existing thermostat, now I know how it should be wired to make sure it was not wired incorrectly. The plumber did a fine job, the electrician, however, was a pile of pants, but that's another story ...

Thanks, Mickyg. I've just done a bit of reading around and now realise why the old mechanical thermostats need the live/neutral as well as switching and the newer digital ones only need the switching (plus battery). Your suggestion of a wireless one is also good, as it means that I'd be...

Worcester Bosch 12/18 Greenstar Camray Utility System oil fired boiler. (Although I said conventional system, the HW is pressured, and the CH is a sealed system.)

I had central heating installed early this year, so comes with all the expected controls (TRVs on all rads except where the room stat is), 7 day separate CH and HW programmer, and a room stat. (It is a conventional rad CH and HWC system.) The room stat seems to be the thing that is letting...

Thanks for your reply. The concrete slab/concrete screed floor does have a dpm - I had to remove the skirtings in the entrance hall and could see where it had been lapped up. Seems to have been done to a reasonable specification, as has the whole house. It is also dry and level, and laid...

Thank you all. That has been very helpful indeed ... I'm very grateful for the advice.

I know there are some very knowledgeable floorers on here, so ... I'm wanting to lay a solid timber floor to my living room (asphalt floor) and dining room and hall (concrete screed floor). The house was built in 1950 so does have a dpc. Budget restricts me to using reclaimed flooring. I...

I unfortunately made the error of employing an electrical contractor (NICEIC approved contractor) for a partial rewire, new consumer unit and substantial upgrade of my house electrics, who has not only tried just about all the usual sharp practice tricks (putting in cheaper specification than...