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I was in the same position as you 3 years ago, trying to convince myself the old flue would be ok to save money. But when we had a new stainless steel liner fitted there's a massive difference and when the wood burner is going the flue and liner gets really hot we can feel heat coming through...

Thanks for all your reply's, I was thinking about creating a man hole on the water drainage pipe not soil pipe, but having read your reply's, I think I will stick with the sump I have dug and the float pump which does keep the water down, but the ground is still damp under the floor. what I am...

Hello all I have no man hole to the drains, I have a water logged garden and water under the suspended wooden floor, which I pump out with a sump pump. I want to put in a French drain across the back garden and have it draining into a manhole. So any advice about digging down to the...

If its more than 5 years old buy a new one. An engineer will cost about £100 plus parts that's if it can be repaired. The fault is similar to the one I had, the heating element had blown. It cost me about £140 for parts and an engineer, the dish washer was more than 5 years old but was...

If the shower door Frame comes apart you could trim it on the ends of the,cross members top and bottom only if they will fit back together after cutting the ends off, but if you are thinking of cutting all the way down the side of the upright, I think this will look a mess. Could you cut back...

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Thanks Burnerman, great reply I would never have found it.

I found my radio code for my focus in the ford user guide which came with the car, look for a sticker with key code and use this. If you haven't got this phone up your Ford garage, they will have your code on computer.

Hello all, Help and advice needed, My ford Focus heater fan doesn't work on setting 1 to 3. It works on setting 4 full blast and heat comes out, do you think I need a new heater fan resister and if so were is it and how do I get it out. Thanking you for any replies.

We have had condensation problems since having new windows and you have got the same problem, your old drafty windows helped ventalation in each room. So you need to improve ventalation such as air vents, leave windows open during the day or buy a dehumidifier.

Some more photo's for you, the gas had already been disconected from the old back boiler by a gorgi engineer when we had the new central heating put in. As you can see very messy job and the cleaning was a nightmare dust everywhere.

We did our fireplace 2 years ago, so far saved £500 per year in gas. I would remove all of the plaster from your chimney breast to see if you have an arch like ours, then clean, clean and clean, then repoint and seal, you also get a lot of heat from both the wood burner and the flue pipe. Your...

The current door and frame to the front bedroom will be removed so the landing would lead to the stairs to the loft and the new studwall on the right of this new landing would have a new door into the front bedroom.

Hello Woody The staircase would go up the wall between the front and back bedroom and a new door would be put through the new stud wall into the front bedroom and I would create new fitted wardrobes under the new staircase in the front bedroom. Im sure the loft would be fine to convert as...

Thanks John We live in a 3 bed semi, but how do you go about getting building regs

Hello all I'm planning to convert my loft to a useable space an office or maybe a new bedroom. I will put a staircase in up the side of the front bedroom wall boxed in with a stud wall, strenghen the loft floor with new joists, insulate, plaster and put a radiater in. I would like to have a...

Hello Woody, I've been reading your topic on Epdm with interest, I'm doing the garage roof in the spring and this product sounds very good no joins to leak. Are you still happy with this product and did you buy it from Permaroof. Also so did you use the metal trims for flashing and if you did...

Hello all My Norfrost chest freezer packed up yesterday for second time in 3 years, I got a new thermostat for it and it started to work straight away, because the freezer was empty my wife suggested lets defrost it over night, which I did and guess what this morning it wouldn't come on. I...