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Thanks I'll take a look at the product. Re octopus cosy - yes I have looked at it briefly. Not much cheap rate and it's offset by peak rate something like 5-8pm right when youre cooking dinner in the electric oven or hob.

I think it's easy for smart meters to switch to economy 7 these days. But what I meant by the comment above is it's my understanding that E7 is not really used these days. It is difficult to control heat output, expensive units to install, tariffs are expensive. What I was looking for was a...

I could fit electric heaters which have built in programmers, but there's still then no central control? We could have 5 heaters all set to different temperatures and schedules conflicting with each other in the home. I don't think E7 is viable. It's never been much good, and these days the...

She owns it, and is thinking of renting it out when she moves in with me. She has put up with manually controlling the electric heaters and hot water for over 15 years. But that won't cut it for rental. Problem is installing storage heaters will cost many thousands of pounds, and storage...

Perhaps I should ask this question differently. If you had an apartment with no gas supply, what heating system do you install in the modern day? You can't install solar or a heat pump either, due to it being a 3rd floor flat and leasehold.

There's no storage heaters or E7 in these apartments. None of them have it. Pretty poor but converted in early 00s I guess it wasn't required then. All the apartments simply had on/off panel heaters installed. I don't know if they have a separate circuit or just on the ring main circuit.

There must be an 'official' way this type of thing is done in electric only apartments. That's what I'm looking for. I also need to control the hot water. The problem with smart plugs is that I'm under the impression it doesn't count on the energy performance certificate. The lack of...

Yes so I'm looking for something off the shelf that I can install. Either we keep the existing wired fused spurs but have a means of switching them from.a central programmer linked to a room stat. Or we wire all the heaters back to a central contactor / programmer which itself switches the...

Hi all. My girlfriends flat is electric only, no economy 7 fitted. There are several radiant panel heaters installed in the rooms, each one just with a 13A plug. The panels have no in built thermostat, they are just on or off. There is no central thermostat or timer/programmer for the...

I bought a new valve body and took off the gland assembly. Going to switch it later today. Should be easy enough I think. What's bonkers is that to buy the gland assembly was going to be over £15 (inc p&p), but I could get a whole valve body from Amazon for £10. What waste.

Hi, I have Danfoss RAS C2 TRV valves. On one radiator a leak has appeared around the pin which pushes the valve closed. Its seeping out through the gland, enough to soak a paper towel overnight. It doesn't seem to happen when the TRV head is removed, only when the valve pin is being...

Yes that is true, there would have to be a retaining wall to stop the neighbours patio collapsing into ours. So removal of the whole thing is not feasible, I could only realistically reduce some of it, perhaps like the steps as you suggest. I have considered planters along the edge of the patio...

Thanks, I have looked at hundreds, maybe thousands of photos over the past couple of years. Its hard to find one similar to what I have, with that stark raised patio. Most gardens that feature a stepped design have the patio inset, and the lawn/planting raised, which creates a sense of privacy...

Hi all, My garden is a narrow rectangle. Around 5.5m wide and 25m long. Immediately out of the back door of the house there is a patio which is full width (5.5m) and about 4-5m in length. We go down some inset steps about 1.2m in height to the lawn area, which is about 3.5m wide by 9m long...

Question on dry system - a quoting company has recommended mortar this morning because I have sand faced tiles which are rougher, and they think the dry system adhesive won't stick very well to these tiles. Any thoughts on this please?

Felt is bitumen. Its generally ok but I have found a small number (4) of ripped sections which Ive patched from the inside with a bitumen primer and Gorilla waterproof tape (the tape wouldn't stick very well without the primer). The internal timbers (rafters, purlins, wall plates) are all good...

Thanks. So I have quite a wide range of opinions on this now, ranging from a repointing job to getting the whole thing done properly. From getting a scaffold and doing it myself to getting a firm in, or to finding a one man band type guy with a ladder who'll do it for £100. Not sure what Im...

There's alot of stuff online suggesting repointing ridge tiles is not recommended because it won't last very long. Almost everything points to removal, clean up and rebedding, or fitting dry system. I understand why you had yours repointed especially if it was very cheap but its unlikely I find...

Thank you. That would be a good option if I get lucky and see someone who Im happy with. I think with this job, yes I could throw a few £k at it of course and get it done, and there will be people ready to take my money. If repointing them up is sufficient to make it last another 5 years, for...

Same question to you really - do you agree the whole job needs doing? Or do I have other options, such as a smaller patch repair, finding a 'handyman' who is more willing to work off a ladder/small platform to get the costs down, something else I haven't thought of?