Recent content by wilsonian

Hello, my garage is around 12 ft high and I'm looking at building a small area (roughly 7ft wide and 5ft long) as a loft of sorts to store paint cans, plaster board and timber (basically left overs from past DIY job). I as wondering what size joists people recommend I use?

I have an issue with my old boiler. Fora while now the boiler fires runs for around 2 minutes then shuts down. After 10-15 seconds it fires back up again and continues this "cycle" untill depends ends. It happens on both the hot water and CH. several plumpers have recommended i replace the...

A new cartridge isn't too much so you could always replace it if the cleaning fails.

I had a right nightmare trying to find the right one. If you have a caliper or something similar you can normally match up the measurements. I got a pair (H&C) from eBay for about £8-10. This seller has a diagram with the measurements listed...

On our estate the soil pipe and surface water drains are separate. Are there any grids that might lead to this? Some times guttering takes a different route than the waste. As a side note earlier this year we noticed a foul smell at the front of our house. This was strange as our soil stacks...

Thanks, thats just saved me a job :)

Thanks for the reply. Now, the old setup had a timer and TRV's fitted to most rads. With the Thermostat fitted I see this as counter productive. We rarely use the electric fire (normally used for short blasts when the missus is home alone). Should I put the Thermostat in the living room and...

I was wondering if some one could provide some help via my setup. We have a Combi boiler and most radiators have TRV's attached except for a bathroom and main bedroom. Now we had a digital timer attached to the unit in the kitchen. Recently my father fitted a Drayton Digistat 2. Now for me...

Thought I'd put an update to this. We finally resolved the issue. It turns out that a sewer line (not our own) runs under our fence line and out to the road. A man hole cover under the fence was topped to the brim backed up and leaking on to the flower bed and washing into our rainwater...

This drains to a P trap that leads to a junction point where the other roof drains lead too. All sewage drains are at the back of the house and feed a different pipe system.

Hello, Recently we've been getting a bad sewer smell around the front door steps. Last year we had the front of the house re-paved and part of the work was the build a new two tier step. We were advised not to treat the bricks for the first year as salt etc can leak from them. Membrane is...

Because he works as a spark at ITV hence asking about products not how to wire them :) Well ideally I'd like them to be IP65 standard as one of the lights sit over a shower cabinet. Would something like this be OK...

Hello, Sorry but this is another bathroom light post. I am currently refitting my bathroom and the lights we had previously were terrible kitchen lights that were not rated for bathroom use (240v GU10 fittings with no waterproof covering etc so they are now pretty rusty and dangerous!)...

I've remove the tray while we re-tiled the area - I'm aiming to put this in by weekend. The floor boards were like balsa wood due to rot so the floor tiles have been removed, cleaned up and refitted with a sheet of rot treated plywood under them. http://imgur.com/a/EmmKZ The areas with red...

Hi Many thanks for the reply. I understand that advice like this can prove fatal to many if done incorrectly. I was hoping it wasn't that section of the boiler. As for the age and house etc it's more about funds etc.