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Hi All, My tenant is moving out in a few weeks and there is an infestation of carpet moths which have chewed through the wool carpet. I am planning to throw the carpet and underlay out and get a man made fibre carpet. I thought it might be worth while spraying something on the floorboards...

Cheers Hugh - what would you replace the AAV with? There is a window right next to it. There isnt an open vent at all so I am thinking of just extending that soil pipe 900mm above the window and having it open? It will be 3m away from the main windows of the house (but still lower down - but...

Hi I moved into a new house about 9 months ago. Around 3 months after moving in I started to notice an intermittent sewage smell in the bathroom upstairs. For the last few months I have been checking all traps and trying to pinpoint the smell. There is no issue with the traps, I believe the...

Hi, Any views on the Fernox TF1 Sigma Filter? Good offer on at the moment at city plumbing £64 including chemicals. Are they easy to install? I did a magnaclean about 7 years ago. Thanks

Hi, I have a novorol roller garage door system. The whole rooler door managed to come off its rollers. I have fixed back but when I "open" the garage door it only goes half way up and when i "close" it then it continues to run even when its fully closed. I think there is some height setting...

Its not pumped - just drains in soil stack by gravity. No easy access underneath either. It just feels like there are bits missing to it

Hi, I have recently moved into a new house. I took the shower trap apart to clean it and I think there is an internal part missing? Shouldn't there be a small trap/container in the trap itself? Can i buy replacements? ShowerTrap2 by SkipFeeney posted 16 Nov 2020 at 3:00 PM ShowerTrap1 by...

Hi All, My toilet is leaking when its flushed - there are drips at this point here. ToiletIssue by SkipFeeney posted 16 Nov 2020 at 11:54 AM I thought it must be related to where the flush valve meets the cistern / basin. However the flush valve can be removed from the cistern so I removed...

Hi, I am trying to cut some high gloss pelmets. I am using a chop saw with a 40 teeth blade and its chipping it quite badly. If i invest in a 60t blade will that make a difference? Also is there a technique to it? Do I turn the pelmets upside down and plunge the saw downwards through it...

Hi, I am creating some bench seating in my Kitchen. There is no radiator in the kitchen which is roughly 40m3. When i removed the kitchen units to fit the bench I have noticed there is some central heating pipes capped off. I am now tempted to fit a 200 x 1200mm rad in the base of the seat...

Hi All, I am looking to fit a new small 200mm high rad in an awkward space. Is it possible to have inlet and outlet on the on the same side or not? So cap one side off, have inlet at top of the other side and outlet at the bottom? I am looking at the Ultra heat Compact range. Thanks

Just noticed as well, there is a black rubber nipple on the underside of the boiler near the front, its slightly wet to touch. I noticed some drips on the floor

As soon as the boiler is switched on it says No Water Flow Lockout...fill system to 1.bar and it never fires, the burner never lights up. I am getting cold water from the hot tap - so its flowing.

P00605-202352 by SkipFeeney posted 5 Jun 2020 at 8:27 PM Thanks...this one here? I have done that as in the picture and no difference

Hi All, I recently moved into a new house and after a week we are getting the error message "No Water Flow Lockout" on an Ideal Logic Plus Combi. I have checked the pressure and that looks ok - its almost 2 bar. My wife said when she couldn't get hot water earlier she "tried to boost the...

Hi, Does anyone understand Sewer maps. I am trying to take a guess on how the property outlined in purple with a no2 connects to the sewer. Whats also a bit odd is that the house opposite has a public sewer running across the garden but not connected to anything else public?! Thanks Thanks

I understand a combi would struggle to supply more than one bath / shower but how often do two people in a house have a bath or shower at the same time? We are a family of 5 with 2 bathrooms supplied by a tank, not once have we had two people using a bath / shower at the same time. I am in the...

Hi, I am off to look at a house this weekend. If we buy it we would like to build an extension at the rear. The extension will need to go right to the boundaries on the houses either side. Would this likely to get through planning ok or is a big no no? See picture below for how it would...

Thanks for all the responses! I think its putting me off slightly if I am honest. The barn is all bare floorboards and I want to cover it in the bedroom with Carpets - didn't even mention that as thought it wouldn't be an issue. I will try and speak to the conservation officer anyway...

Thanks for all the advice..the gate is one that worries me. Need a gate to stop the kids getting out of the garden, so potentially i would need to submit plans etc for listed building consent for the gate. The listing on historic england doesn't really give much away: GV II Barn. Probably...