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In 1999 British Gas discovered a vast deposit of natural gas just off the coast of Gaza. Worth over US$4 billion. BG had been asked to explore by the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) once gas had been discovered Israel wanted the gas and made a deal with Fatah. But Fatah lost the 2006 election...

Thanks Kirk.

I assume that you have thermostatic valves on all radiators? In the normal way, depending on where your home stat is and how long you have the heating on, each room should hit its target temperature and then turn off passing the hot water on to the next radiator and so on, until they are all...

It is a simple job to do, merely removing a section of the roof from the top and inserting the polycarbonate, Wicks sell all the bits you need and have some "how to" sheets. Make sure you use a lead strip at the top to avoid any water getting in.

One solution is to fit thermostatic valves to the upstairs radiators, then when each in turn hits its target, the water will be passed on to the remaining open ones downstairs. Has the system ever worked properly, ie; do the rooms upstairs get warm enough? If they did work properly? Has...

Haven't seen any for a long time, however, changing from your existing 8mm system, to a 8mm system with thermostatic valve and lockshield valve is easy and will not cost much, it will save you money as, a thermostat will stop the room from overheating.

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Under floor heating is good as it spreads the heat all over the room. UFH is bad because if its laid in a concrete slab, it will take ages to heat up and even longer to cool down. It too can bend/buckle if laid too thin, its best reinforced with steel mesh. So if the sun shines in the room...

By 2016 all new houses will have to be built on the Passive House principle, which means they have to be airtight, with mechanical ventilation and instead of gas boilers and open fires external district heating using wood chip or electric resistance heating. The owners of the 27 million existing...

The wireless receivers are powered by the mains supply and you should wire them back to the boiler but, they can be anywhere, usually somewhere in the middle of the building where they will best pick up the signal from the transmitter. Then they merely turn on the pump to make the heating run...

The wind will continue to blow the rain up the roof and through the gaps in the slates. If you do not double/cross batten the rain will be trapped on the roof and will rot the battens. Having the horizontal battens up in the air stops this.

This is a job you only want to do once. Probably the best way is to remove the present roof and cover with 18mm water proof ply. Then fit vertical batons and fibre glass over the whole lot. This means the roof is waterproof, probably for ever. Then fit horizontal batons and re tile. No one...

Lets try to progress. Its been cold recently, agreed? Have all your rooms been as comfortable as required? What setting is on the boiler? Gives a rough idea what spare heat you may have. A 10mm pipe in a pressurised system can deliver 1.609kwh. A 22mm...

As Andy writes mass is the only real solution for noise, and several tonnes of concrete will do the trick. As I understand it, the Government have not hung anyone a Tyburn recently for not building to standard and the local councils test the first building and if it fails do nothing, where...

I have a similar product. With mine you select the temperature level by pressing the up and down buttons and change from day to night by pressing both buttons at the same time. Under the flap you have a button to select which programme and when you want it to start.

To get this to work, you need to consider what you are trying to accomplish. First a conservatory can soak up a lot of heat. Have you worked out an expected heat requirement? Do you intend to use it all year round? Today it has been minus 7.3 C. Have you room for the size of radiators...

A better bet is to make a French drain the whole length of the wall. Then you can lower the whole surface area to a desirable 6 to 9 inches below the dpc and thereby hit two targets, one ventilation to the floor area, two a dry wall, keeping rain splashes below the dpc. By the way, under floor...

Does your bathroom have a plasterboard ceiling? Plasterboard is transparent to water vapour. 2.5 litres of water vapour can move through an 8 x 4 sheet of plasterboard in 24 hours at a temperature of 30 C and 100% humidity. Water vapour condenses out of the air with a drop in temperature. Do...

I know of one bathroom floor where the owner sanded the pine boards, varnished them and sealed the gaps with silicone, using a lot of time and care - 8 years later they look as new and work perfectly. Just as well really as the lady in question lives on the top floor of a block of Mansion Flats.

For exposed conditions there is nothing to beat a fibre glass roof! Fibre glass has been used in boat building for over fifty years and many of the originals are still afloat. If you ever visit Wales you will see many flat fibre glass roofs in places where they have the most extreme weather -...