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We have a Potterton Performa gas ch boiler. It is around 4 years old, the main ch system is much older but the radiators all work ok,and were flushed when the boiler was installed but most don't have indvidual thermostats. There is a main roon thermostat in the inner hall (Drayton digistat)...

We live in a conservation area with Victorian houses over 100 years old. Several local houses have been reroofed in recent years, using synthetic slates which are now growing moss around the joins and overlaps. My neighbour's roofer says this is a common problem, which you don't get on real...

I have just got back from the builders merchants after pricing up replacement guttering for my house. A 6 ft length of cast iron 4.4" wide gutter, painted black, in traditional ogee shape, is around £35 per 6 ft length (excluding VAT). The same design and size in cast aluminium, unpainted, is...

The brackets and joints holding up the cast iron guttering on the side of my house have all gone. (Have scaffolding in place for a roof job so know this to be the case). Want to repair if possible if not replace with matching appearance. One quote said that it would as cheap to install new...

PS I think I may be confusing the issue by referring to the problem as being deadlocking - it is in fact that the secondary latch on the latch lock is locked in the out position whenever you open the door by pressing down the handle. Deadlocking is achieved by turning the key in the lock...

OK - I don't know how we should be using it any differently. The problem we have is that when we press the handle down to open the door, it engages the secondary latch, and locks it open - just as if you were putting it on the latch. Then we cannot shut the door. Pressing the little button on...

Here is the relevant page on the Era site: http://www.era-security.com/nightlatch_chain.html it is the second item on the page. "Double Locking Nightlatch" And here are the installation instructions http://www.era-security.com/instruction%20pdfs/Double%20Locking%20Nightlatch.pdf...

Well I have had a look at the ERA website and there is no part number, but it seems to be the first one in their Nightlatches section marked BS3632:2004 The website is www era-securityDOT comslash acrobat files slash nightlatches DOT pdft. It does have installation instructions on the site...

We recently had our front door lock replaced with a security night latch (by ERA). Our front door lock is on the left (seen from the street). This means it is on the right seen from inside. The ERA night latch is designed to operate by pressing down the handle when the lock is installed on...

lately I have been unable to download and read .pdfs using Adobe Reader. I have tried to uninstall it and reinstall a later version but the old version seems to be corrupt in some way, so that I can't uninstall it using the Add/Remove function in Windows and then the latest version won't...

I recently had a new ERA double locking nightlatch installed in my existing front door - but I am having a lot of trouble with it. It has two latches a large one and below it a smaller one, the smaller one keeps sticking, as though it is deadlocking itself, and you have to really slam the door...

This was my problem. It turned out it was sludge in my system. When I got the rads flushed it cleared up - then I had boiler probems but that is another saga. Usignuolo

Hi there Thanks John D. I spoke to Thames Water who looked up my property on their assets database. They have a record of a main sewer owned by them under the middle of the street but but no record at all of any connections into it. (Although there are Victorian houses on both sides)...

I live in a Victorian house in London. When I moved in, 20 years ago, s I had the plumbing redone. The council said there were no plans of the drains or sewers in the area. My main soil stack is at the rear corner of my house (inside the conservatory). The main down rain water pipe from...

If your radiators need bleeding they will normally feel cold at the top as the water has been replaced by air. Assuming they are conventional wall hung Stelrad wall radiators, there will be a small valve at one side of the top of each radiator (like a small knut). You place a small "hollow"...