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I've bought a temp sensor to check the heat in and out of the rads and I plan to attempt to balance however I have also noticed something that causes the noise to die down a fair bit, probably by half. The house has a small bedroom that has two small rads in it. I don't usually have them on as...

Great thanks for the info I will dig out the article and get hold of a thermometer :) Found the balancing page : https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Plumbing:faq2

Hi thanks for the quick response :) I must admit me and my father bleed the system while it was on a warming but not up to temp. He went round each rad and as he said he was about to open the bleed screw on each rad I opened the fill lever slightly on the bottom of the boiler. I didn't realise...

Hi I've recently had a new extension built and some changes to my kitchen. As part of the work a new Worcester Bosch CDI combi boiler was fitted to replace the old one and a three new vertical rads were fitted. I've been trying to get to the bottom of why two rads in particular make a lot of...

After a bit of a chat the builder who had a chat with the plumber they are going to remove the pipe in the wall which feeds the downstairs central heating and they are going to route it from the boiler along the surface of the kitchen wall (so to the left of the pic) and in to the pipes in the...

Thanks for the responses fellas :) So I guess now I need to have a fairly strong word with the builder and ask for the section of plaster covering the pipes to be removed top to bottom. The pipes removed, the blocks cut, new pipe work soldered and put in the cuts, wrapped, clipped in and...

Hi there some advice needed about pipes and ticking. When the heating is warming up and cooling down the clicking takes place, it's fairly loud and frankly will drive me to despair. I'm having a kitchen extension built and it has now been plastered but I'm getting a fair amount of ticking...

Thanks for that I'll check out their stuff. If I could get an alloy strip maybe a inch or two wide which angled up to the carpet that would be ideal.

Hi thanks for the reply. I'm planning on building a slightly raised patio platform outside which i intend to be able to wipe my feet on a matt there before entering the lounge. Its actually a new bit of lounge as I expended out about 4ft as part of a full width extension. My main concern is the...

Hi there, my lounge has Bifold window out to the garden. The internal threshold (lip/step?) over the BiFold is about 15/16mm once the old laminate was removed. I would ideally like to install carpet instead but it was mentioned that the Bifold threshold might be a concern as it is fairly low...

Just an update. The owner of the window company took a look and agreed they weren't fitted correctly and the measurements were about 10mm under for width or height. He gave me two options, he would remake new lanterns or he would make some adjustments to make them fit and reduce the cost. After...

Thanks again for the reply. I'm seeing the builder tonight so I'll ask him some questions. The reason for the concern about the lip is really that at the moment there is a gap in various places around it that from inside the building you can see out of and see the garden and brickwork on the...

Hi thanks for the reply. I'm still waiting to talk to the builder who has already spoken to the window guy. At the moment I'm not clear who measured but I do know it would have been after the upstand was complete but maybe not with the GRP on it. Nothing was covered at the weather was great for...

Surely that is a hack though, shouldn't require that on a new roof and lanterns. That frame needs to be sitting straight on the up stand with sealant (a normal amount, a bead) pressed between them. Also I would have assume the 90 degree angle at the base would have sealant between the joints of...

Hi I'm currently in the process of having an extension being built and this includes two lanterns on the GRP flat roof. They were fitted a few weeks ago by the window company who the builder deals with. I was happy with them and the build has been progressing. However the other night I took a...

Yeah I think when the weather improves a little I'm going to go up the ladder and remove all the sealant from around the base of where the poll goes down and replace it as best as I can and see if that has any impact.

I moved in to the house around 3yrs ago and the previous owner had them fitted about 11yrs prior to that. The company have since gone bust :(

This window is on the wooden bay frame on the 1st floor. The frame carries clay stiles that I had replaced couple of years ago along with getting a DPM fitted behind them and some insulation. The leak appears to be coming from the bottom of the bay pole and it only happens when it is both...

Hi there, the upstairs bay window in my 1930's house showed signed of water ingress below the internal sill where the front of the bay and side meet at the 130(ish) degree angle. I poured some water in the internal box of the side window where it has drain holes and noticed water starting to...

I'm currently getting some planning work done to extend my kitchen. I'm thinking of possibly saving a little space by investigating using a pocket sliding door between the kitchen and a new utility room which will be built taking up some of the existing garage space. Has anyone any experience...