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Thanks guys, will bear that in mind I don't know it's the magnetic pin for sure. It's just that at least with all of the other pins you have some physical contact to move them and there was no unusual resistance putting the key in. Warming the cylinder by literally just putting my palm over it...

I'm not sure about powder, does that clog up if it gets wet? I've ordered some Liqui Moly Door Lock Care spray which apparently prevents icing up, worth a shot. The cylinders are only a week old and that was the first night of frost they got, so I think this might be a recurring theme :(

It's definitely a frost issue causing the sticking and likely because of the lack of mechanical force - not a problem with normal pins. I don't mind disabling the magnetic pin on the half cyls - up-and-overs have plenty of other ways to break-in that the cylinder would not be the vulnerability...

Hi all, I have 3 keyed-alike avocet ABS cylinders for my garage - one for the normal door and half-cylinders for the up-and-overs. The problem I have is that the ones in the up-and-overs struggle to unlock with the key when it's frosty out. I assume the problem is likely that the magnet does...

Great, thank you for such a helpful response :) Glad to know I'm not just misunderstanding something

Hello, I'm doing a bathroom refit which involves teeing off the hot and cold for a new shower and consequently have gone down the rabbit hole of trying to understand bonding arrangements. I understand there has been a change in the regs regarding bonding since 1999 when the house was built, and...

Turns out the EV is kaput and also the new PRV was dodgy. The top mounting for the EV is accessible which meant I could loosen it and rotate it to be able to get to the schrader, and that leaked water. I fitted a new PRV of the same part number, and that has been in a few days now, and my jug on...

What should I use to build back out to level? Presumably it's the gypsum that's the issue? Could I scrape back to hardwall, prime and tank it before tiling, or is that going to still cause problems?

What's the best way to prep a plastered breezeblock wall for tiling in a shower enclosure? One of the walls of this enclosure will be a new false wall for various reasons, but the other is part of a large external cavity wall which is already plastered, though I've scraped off a lot of the...

It has an internal one, but the schrader is accessible - it pokes out of the top of the boiler on this model. Unfortunately whoever installed it ran the return pipe immediately above it so you can't get anything on it! (the same installer who mounted the magnaclean so close to the ceiling that...

Possibly - the pressure difference between hot and cold is quite a jump. But I still wouldn't expect the PRV to vent when the gauge is reading only 2 bar so I think there might be another problem

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. Our boiler began losing pressure recently and it turned out it was venting through the PRV. Brand new PRV was fitted but we're still losing pressure. I noticed it was still venting from the PRV again even though the boiler was only showing 2 bar of...

I'll definitely make sure its toughened glass when I order the door. I was planning to DIY the install if I didn't need any sort of sign off. If I did, I was going to get quotes from FENSA installers to save myself the hassle. Looking at...

I've tried researching this, but I'm struggling to understand what bits of regs are relevant to this particular case. Our house has an open vestibule in front of the main front door (see pic of similar property). I want to put a UPVC door in the opening to make more of a porch from it. The door...

Final update on this. Shortly after the last post, he said he was currently on a big job and couldn't attend for 3 to 4 weeks to do the repairs. I begrudgingly accepted. 4 weeks came and went without contact, so I complained to Checkatrade. They sent over a surveyor who agreed it was substandard...