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Thanks I have tried a resin wood hardener on the bad patches but they still keep coming back every year. But I was mainly asking for when i replace these boards with new ones? Mike

Hi I built a workshop 15 years ago and painted it with Sadolin Superdec. I have painted 1 side of it every year (it's a big shed) and I have been pleased that most of the paint is nice and firm with no problems. But.. on the front and one side where it's much more exposed to driving rain etc I...

Ah! that's good . Yes have a modern Consumer Unit so should be ok. thanks I'm going to have a EV charge point fitted next month I think they can be a bit finicky about earth points, I suppose the installation guys will check it ? Thanks Mike

I was working under my kitchen sink this morning where my earth bonding to my incoming water main is and I noticed that when the mains water pipe goes through the bottom of the cabinet it chances from iron to MDPE pipe. That can't be right can it? I have a multimeter, can I use that to find...

Thanks for replies. It is for a solar heated tank that can go up to 90c the stat is at the bottom 3rd of tank and according to my readings the stat should turn off at about 60c to give 80c at the top roughly. but its turning off at about 40-45c so a lot of free energy is being wasted. So the...

I have been buying cheapish Hot water cylinder thermostats in the past but have had to change a couple recently as they just packed up! So I bought a Honeywell stat but that was so inaccurate I sent it back. Bought another one and it's the same. I have probes that i have calibrated with freezing...

Thanks Have had a Look. I'll have o check some measurements it looks like it's going to be too big

Thanks What's a tank in Tank cylinder?

The boiler is a Grant VORTEX PRO - output of 46KW

No I don't think so! Nothing we've noticed anyway. Its heated with an oil boiler sometimes but mostly an immersion heater using solar power

Simple question really But would appreciate advice please. There is nothing wrong with the cylinder as far as I can tell; It's just 30 years old. We live in a hard water area and I imagine it's got lots of lime scale in it

Thanks for explaining that so clearly . After reading that I set the thermostat to off and sat by the U/F pump and waited to see if it turned off. It took ten minutes to turn off, I had thought it was staying on all the time

Hi More accurately , What I really mean is should the underfloor heating pump run continuously while the zone valve is open? It seems to me that the pump should be on when the zone valve is open so the boiler can turn off and let the water keep pumping, as the normal water temperature is too...

Thanks , Yes It does have two sets of fins Sorry forgot to mention that we already have a plinth heater Because we never use it! It's seems warm for about 20 seconds and cools down to room temperature when you put your hand over it. my wife wont turn it on. She reckons it just blows out cold...

My Kitchen is large and cold. The only place for a rad is under a work surface. I have a 600x1100 double rad there now. It's very old! I thought about replacing it with a triple rad but I think i need more output than that. There is literally no space for another rad so I thought as there is...

Thanks I have another go at it :(

We have tried Zinsser 123 plus but it's horrible to use it really really thin and go's everywhere. we thought that Bedec Multi surface paint might be ok . They say it covers everything, including old Tar based paints but nowhere does it say it paints over Oil based? Has anyone used this on...

Hi all previously I found that the smell was coming from the bath trap after a full sink had been emptied. I know that this is caused by negative pressure in the waste pipes sucking the air from a trap so I had a poke round under the bath and found that the trap is one of those with an air...

I have a workshop that is completely clad in tannalised weatherboard. It was built 13 years ago and has always been painted with Superdec. It's well maintained but every time I come to paint it I get parts where the paint is cracked and loose near the bottoms of the boards. It's not everywhere...

Because I'd still have to isolate one of the legs in the Kitchen:sick:.