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I agree, I would think a CORGI who takes responsibility to sign things off on his/her own name, he/she would definitely want to know that the parts he/she is using are good qual. To be fair, in the past I supplied for plumbers doing pipeworks the cheapest SF fittings and pipework and had to...

My appliance is 12kW, if I divide this by the ‘calorific value’ (CV) of the gas being burnt, which is natural gas =38.5MJ/m3. 12/38.5=0.32 flow rate expressed in litres/sec, which equates 1.13 m3/hour. Now I just need to understand if the 9.5mm bore is enough? Can someone please advise? We...

I found him on the register. He lives in the neighbourhood. It is already the 3rd plumber that asks for us to buy parts, so I suppose it is more common than I thought?

Hi we are having a Britannia range cooker installed. I am getting parts for the plumber to come round tomorrow to fix it. On SF they sell the standard hose with bayonet fitting (as recommended by manufacturer), which has a bore size of 9.5mm. Isn't that too tight for a range cooker which has...

I called Celotex this morning and they say that they have an error tolerance of +3/-2mm as the average of 10 points measured across the panel. So, we are within tolerances. It is just that those areas of the panels that are +5mm really make it rock badly once it is put down on the level concrete...

Hi all, for our kitchen floor the plan has been to make a floating floor, as follows from bottom up: concrete, self leveling compound, DPM, two layers of insulation (the old kitchen was split in half, so the first layer is 20mm in the front half and 90mm in the rear half, and then a second...

Hi all Having kitchen re-done by a builder (tearing down a wall.and new higher roof at the end) Also the kitchen is currently a concrete paved area, floor level 18cm below the rest of the (Victorian) house, which is suspended timber. I'm planning to do the floor myself to save a bit on costs...

sorry for the radio silence. Have been quite busy with plumbers, builders, SEs and the lot. I cannot post pictures of the parapet, our study room is above the kitchen and the parapet is above the study room. When the parapet was done last year it looked all nice and sealed and well made. The...

sorry, hadn't seen you reply. Here are some pictures

Hello all, we are re-doing the kitchen, it is in an extension off a terraced Victorian house. The kitchen size will be roughly 2.38m x 6m. I have a couple of challenges coming up, questions underlined. A. the floors of the main building are higher by 18cm than the current kitchen floor (which...

That's not entirely correct, the last black digit of the water meter represents 1 m^3 of water (1000 litres), so the unit (in red) represents 1 litre; we have been away for 72 hours and the meter hasn't even moved half a position (took a picture before and now), so of there is a leak down from...

our water meter is a new one, installed last year or so. Took a look ( can see a picture for yourself) the meter doesn't run so I suspect there is no leak, or if there is one it should be very very minimal. Notably, there's water at the bottom, is that normal? The depth of the water sort of...

JohnD yes, I should start hacking off the plaster to expose all of the affected areas (I did start already couple weeks ago in a little corner), however I am afraid that once I start, I will have to hack off the plaster in the whole room. I also feel that the water in the chimney breast is quite...

Some updates, I don't even know where to start to be frank. After having removed an Ikea Kallax (open shelf kind of furnishing) from the wall adjoining the stairway in the back room, it was evident that the walls were very damp. This prior to the prolongued wet spells of this week just gone...

Forgot to ask, when hacking off those slabs of plaster I can see three different types of plasters. One is pink-ish and I believe this is finishing plaster. One is grey and I imagine it is concrete based plaster? What is it used for? Then there was also a greenish plaster, is this by any chance...

MrChibs About outside level being two courses, totally happy to do that and it feels like the sensible thing to do. Albeit, when you start reading about it, it all doesn't make sense. Rising damp is a myth; yet we buil DPCs. DPCs are supposed to avoid rising damp (which doesn't exist). Yet...

There has been some light rain this morning. The area under where the old square bit of downpipe is joined by the new, vertical round pipe is dry. Not a certainty that that joint ok (bigger volume of rains could see water going down the downpipe and then overflow from the square opening), just...

There's DPC made of slate in the external skin of the wall, I can picture tomorrow in the sunlight If you are referring to the actual door threshold, that is misleading as the uPVS frame is quite thick and it is not flush neither to the outside tile nor to the inside floor. Tomorrow I can...

Hi JohnD, most likely not a coincidence, however the whole external wall of the living room is damp, albeit it is showing different level of dampness. Hence, the downpipe could be a cause of dampness (and will make sure to verify in the next few days that it is absolutely sealed), however that...

Hi JohnD, as mentioned the downpipe is offloading onto pavement / street. The gutter / down pipe has been replaced last year, damp was already present before that and damp is still there, so probably it is not gutter / downpipe related.