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Baxi coming out Tuesday, thanks for the advice

Attached is a crude drawing showing the attic, the blue being the accessible part, and the red is behind the plasterboard. I‘ve just drilled a couple of holes (green mark on pic) so I can see the attic floor behind, zero insulation. There’s a date on the Velux windows saying 1992

Boiler was here when we moved in, is guarantee transferrable? If so, I’ll get my son to phone them up

At his house. Here are more pics of the attic, loads of condensation on inside of both windows

British Gas coming out on the 11th

Further observation, he said he had to turn the rad knob to 64 to get the radiators hot, if I turn on the hot tap, the radiator temp plummets to around 50ndegrees before going back up when I turn the tap off. Don’t think this is normal, then again I’ve never stood there watching my own boiler...

Hi, at sons house. Setting his water to 40 c it’s too hot to put your hand under, setting it to 39c and it’s Luke warm. is this diy fixable or do we need an engineer? thanks

He only wants to use it for storage, but would rather be able to walk on floorboards rather than floorboards having insulation on top of them (mind you, that could be the cheapest solution), along the lines of what Old Duffer did in post 9, could he not get some sort of thermal board and simply...

I got a nice thermal camera from my wife for xmas

Hi, son bought a mid terraced house a couple of years ago. The attic has been converted into a room, see attached pic (estate agents pic before he bought house), but it wasn’t listed as with a loft conversion as it isn’t up to standards. Surveyor also said it breaks various rules (especially...

Thanks. Most of my roof isn’t felted hence loads of fresh air circulating and no smell. I‘ll get someone in after Xmas.

Hi all. In May 2019 I contacted the council as my wife saw a rat on my neighbours doorstep, and I saw one coming out of a road drain across the road. A few weeks later another neighbour said they had had rats in their attic and couldn’t understand how they got there, and pest control sorted it...

Are all hybrid polymer sealants as good as each other? After black with anti mould. Screwfix no nonsense x8 £9.99 OB1 £14.99 Stixall £6.29 Evo Stik The dogs *****. £9.99 thanks

thanks, tiled already, did have grout but most came out, I removed the rest.

Hi all. Have thick tiles hence have at least 10mm deep gap (as in gap from front of tile to the wall behind it, not gap between tile and worktop) Am I being stupid if fill the depth with silicon and make it flush with the tiles rather than having a 45 degree bead? thanks

Now the sun’s shining through front window, can see where it’s coming from by the rings

Many thanks. The rear window is where it’s worst, as you can see from pics, radiator isn’t under the window, window has fly net on, when I bought my piano, as it had to go underneath the window, I also purchased UV protective film which is on the back windows. Pulled piano out, and took...

Hi all, In our living room we have laminate flooring, skirting board (installed after flooring, hence covers edge of flooring), papered then painted walls, wooden window sills. Last January we had central heating installed. Soon after we kept finding these patterned bits of paper that flaked...

Thanks, I was debating whether to post in painting or plumbing section, chose this one as I hoped a lot of plumbers would have seen this problem. Am happy if mods want to move it. Attached a pic, apologies for dust on floor etc

About 12 years ago our toilet was replaced. At the time the soil pipe was sanded down back to metal and as far as I'm aware (not sure) metal paint was applied. New toilet and lino being installed next week, as you can see from the pic, rust and a line along the top has gradually appeared over...