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We recently had a new roof and had a tile slip within three months of it being installed (previous roof was up there 80+ years and no problems, guess modern roofing standards/techniques have changed for the worst). We've found a lovely, honest bloke who is going to lift, reseat and nail every...

They are Marley tiles and bloody heavy things, there were some left behind which the guy told us we could keep and I could only carry three of them at a time. And apologies for my "roofers eh" comment - I shouldn't crudely generalise that all roofers are cowboys and I have edited my original post.

We had a new roof fitted in March and a tile has slipped. The batten holding it was short of the rafter. The original roofer isn't interested in fixing. Is it possible (please humour me) to have the tiles permanently fixed to the battens as opposed to simply being hung on the battens via the...

Panic over, guy came back, flashed the chimney and reseated the tiles. Job's a good 'un :) Thanks for all your input, much appreciated.

thats the original, I zoomed in the first pic to highlight the area - everything else is fine with the work

Yes, the scaffolding aligns perfectly with the ridge tiles :p They have some bits to finish off tomorrow at the front of the property but this is the rear.

Hello, in the process of having a new roof fitted and we spotted this, any thoughts (plus, is the flashing ok?): Many thanks!

Hello, I've had enough of the last two days, I'm in the market for a properly fitted air con unit (one unit, one outdoor fan thingy) - we're not talking about the portable ones with a hose you have to stick out of the window, this will be something fitted to the wall. Any guidance on the kinds...

Ok, everything at rest, wife turned the hot tap on in the bathroom and the far left pipe gets hot quite quickly - so we have a knackered diverter valve? I'm a layman, what does the diverter valve do? (Lesson 1 for me in basic plumbing) :D EDIT: is there a test I can do? If I turn the heating...

Thank you both for your time, much appreciated. None of the taps are providing "hot" water, just tepid and the boiler was serviced in April. I don't know if this is relevant but we had the mixer taps in the kitchen replaced about a week ago which necessitated turning off the water at the...

Hello, Apologies if this is a stupid question, there's a bit of a story to this. So, back in April I noticed that our hot water was temperamental, you could draw some at 10a.m and it would be fine, at 11a.m it would heat up briefly before running cold. I looked at the LCD display when this...

Hello, I'd rather take the advice of professionals here than wade through reviews on Amazon (which may or may not be fake). We've got a couple of foxes around here who my wife feeds and she wants me to set up a couple of cameras on our summerhouse to get footage of them playing in the garden...

So it's not mains pressure related? And can it be sporadic? Only my wife drew some water lunchtime and the temperature was fine and now the "0,7 bar" flashing message has gone?

Hello, We could only get luke warm water out of the taps this morning (central heating is fine), the LCD was flashing "0,7 bar", I assume this is related? What does the error indicate? Many thanks for reading. (I've looked in the manual but it just gives a list of codes beginning with F).

It's just coming on randomly and heating the radiators. Woke up at 1a.m this morning really warm and realised the radiators were hot so it was going in the middle of the night! We even took the batteries out of the little device we have downstairs but the boiler still does its own thing. It...

Hello, I hope one of you good people can help. We have a Vaillant ecoTec Pro boiler, it's about six years old. Today, for the first time, it's started acting up. By that I mean it's heating the radiators even though the portable thermostat thing that sits down here shows that the temperature...

Ignore me, I connected via a web browser and the output from the DVR is misleading at best! The web browser was asking for a new admin password that needed certain criteria.

Hi, I recently bought this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078JRDCP7/ref=psdc_1939544031_t2_B0751GZY1C?tag=diynotcom-21 I installed the hard drive and fired the unit up, all good so far. My first screen is the activation menu. I need to create a new admin password and then create a password...

Thanks for that but if I'm ripping up floorboards to run the video capture cables then I might as well run the power cables at the same time.

Thanks guys, it's a minefield for those of us out of the loop. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078JRDCP7/ref=psdc_1939544031_t2_B0751GZY1C seems to be all Hikvision.