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So you're saying don't open a window because you'll pull in moist cold air, but you're happy to pull in moist, cold air through other leak points in the house? Don't forget that the moist, cold air will rapidly heat once its in the house, and as it heats its relative humidity will drop rapidly...

Drill a couple of holes in the larger block in the opposite corners to the bolts and put a coil spring in each hole. Or make a saddle clamp to go over the section that can move so you can clamp it into position once you’ve adjusted the backlash.

So where does the air that the fan exhausts get replaced from?

Thanks for the supportive comments. We live in a sleepy market town so it was quite unexpected and pretty shocking at the time. But we’re a pretty resilient family so, apart from my wife constantly waking me up in the night thinking she can hear something, we’ve moved on. The police told us...

We had an attempted break in just after christmas on a sunday at 5am. We were in the house whilst 3 men tried to smash their way in through the back door with an 4 ft long metal bar. Thankfully, they ran off when i came downstairs in my PJ's clutching my son's hockey stick and turned on some...

For the purposes of this conversation, the edit. Whether trump is right or wrong in what he did is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion. If he genuinely encouraged dissent in his speech, the BBC would have had no need to edit together separate sections and make it appear as original...

what are you trying to achieve? Habital room, workshop, storage?

sticking with the snake theme though.

and there you have it. An entirely unprovoked insult from the left just because someone has a differing view to theirs.

I read that list with interest as i do watch GB news :) 1. I voted remain, but regret it. 2. I believe the climate is changing, i believe that are we are certainly influencing the climate, and i believe that we shouldn't be so wasteful with our resources. But i am not convinced that our...

Unconnected points. Whether Trump denied the election result or not, the BBC should not have edited his speech to make it appear he said something he didn't say. Two wrongs don't make a right, and its the BBC's job to report the facts, not present their interpretation of the facts.

I don't think it is. GB news bulletins are factual, it's the discussion points and shows that the GB news haters don't like because they take a more right wing approach than the BBC and then presenters have a right wing bias. That being said, GB news actively invites both right AND left wing...

The yellow filler you refer to is insulation. Its either rockwool or glass wool, not asbestos. Get it tested if you're worried, but its highly unlikely to be asbestos with a house of that age. The nasty asbestos was banned in 1985 with ban extended to white asbestos which is no where near as...

some manufacturers just added a usb socket, claim they're not disposable and carried on selling them at a similar price.

Can you take a better picture of the outside wall. It looks like there is some staining from water running off the roof and down the wall on the centre line, but difficult to see. It looks like it aligns with the right hand side of the gap in the facia under the ridge. I suspect you've got...

We've not long had a smart meter fitted, which tells me that our house consumes an average of 100w when we're out and all the lights are off. That'll be the router, wifi repeaters, smart devices, Ring Camera's etc. I've excluded the blips where the fridge or freezer kicks in. I was...

Depending on the size of the room, 1 day to bring the ceiling down and clean up, another to board and first coat skim, 3rd day to 2nd coat skim. 1 day less if you overboard rather than bringing the ceiling down. Then redecorate. I caveat the above with the fact that I’m an enthusiastic...

If there's nothing heavy in the room above, it'll be the plaster or plasterboard detaching itself from the joists of the floor above. If its lath and plaster, it may have just reached the end of its life and the plaster nibs have failed. It'll either need to come down and be replaced with...

The ceiling is clearly moving, hence the decoration marks. Its probably been filled and painted over, but the cause of the movement hasn't been addressed so it's just cracked again. Any heavy furniture or weights in the room above?

That looks to me like the ceiling is failing. As Wayners said, get it looked at Asap. If its an original ceiling, then i'd say its failing. If its plasterboard, it may be that it was nailed or screwed insufficiently and can be reattached and reskimed. Is your lounge a ground floor room? Is the...