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Thanks Madrab - I'd replied before I saw your reply too. There is indeed a mag filter on the return, near the boiler. The engineer who serviced the boiler last week said the mag filter looked dirty when he checked it, which prompted his suggestion for a power flush.

Given the age of the CH and previous boiler, and the fact that I don't think the previous owners were particularly good at maintaining stuff around the house, I'm inclined to believe that the recommendation for a power flush is genuine rather than the service engineer trying to "upsell". I'm...

Hi, I'm just wanting to get some advice as to whether it's advisable for me to have some/all of my radiators replaced. I had a new combi boiler installed about a year ago, shortly after we moved in. During the install the system as given a chemical flush. I had an engineer give the boiler its...

Just to add to that: - I did not see or feel any dampness or water on the insulation, beams, roof tiles or wall above/near the leak. - In the second to last photo there looks like a possible crack running along the underside of the soffit. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get high enough...

Hi, Here's a photo of the wet patch from in the bedroom. The wall on the right is the gable end (plaster over brickwork), the wall section above the cupboard door is plasterboard. This is the loft directly above the corner of the bedroom, with the insulation rolled up. Here's a view of the...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help advise me about what the likely cause of my problem is and suggest some next steps. During a recent night of strong wind and rain, I noticed a small damp patch in the corner of our bedroom. A small damp area in the about the size of a £2 coin, with a few...

Hello, I had two Dakea-brand pitched roof windows installed last summer. One of them is getting fairly hard to close. Normally you should be able to pull it shut quite easily and turn the handle to lock it, but recently it needs quite a bit of force to pull it shut. Looking at the window and...

Hi, I moved into a new home around 5 months ago. One issue we had to deal with early on was the CH rapidly losing pressure and lots of air filling the system - the combi boiler was old and had sprung a leak, so it was replaced with a new combi. However, I've noticed that it seems we still have...

Yes, I understand what insulation does, thanks. My hope is that increasing the insulation at the fitted wardrobes results in less heat escaping from the bedroom/wardrobes and out into the loft. If I go ahead and try this I can test it out on one section of wardrobe first to see if it helps -...

Hi Ken, Thanks for the reply. That sounds like a better idea, I'll try that. However, one thing I forgot to mention is that the fitted wardrobes on one side of the room back on to a different loft cavity, which is much smaller and harder to access. It's a small crawl space compared to the...

Hello, I moved house recently and one issue that I noticed after a week or so was lots of trapped air in the CH. Two or three upstairs radiators had about 1/2 to 1/3 of the top feel cold. The system also had too little pressure to force this air out when bleeding the radiators (the boiler read...

Hi, The master bedroom in my new home is chilly compared to other rooms, for various reasons. One might be that there are several fitted wardrobes which back on to (cold!) loft voids - these are even colder than the main room. For that reason I want to improve the insulation of the wardrobes -...

Inside/outside of fitted wardrobes

Thanks for your advice guys. I'll put down plywood before anything else.

I was just being thick. I saw the screw and once I'd assumed it had something to do with fixing things in place there'd be no way I'd click what it was really for :roll: I've never done any plumbing apart from putting in the new toilet. Don't have any experience fitting copper pipes, or any...

Replying to my own thread... Reading up on this on the net, it seems to me that it should be okay to put tiles down onto the chipboard but first the chipboard should be prepared "with a suitable primer". Is that right, and if so what would be a suitable primer?

Thanks gents for your feedback. I guess you're both saying that to sort it properly it should be plumbed in copper - not something I should try myself, don't have the tools or know-how so I should get a proper grown up to do it instead! The piping was installed by the previous owner, and...

Uh, no. This really isn't.