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The pipes have been in screed for 8 years and ripping it up will mean bringing up the flooring in the kitchen, bathroom and utility. Can we really not leave those pipes as is?

Hi, can someone advise? We would like to replace a radiator on this small wall that we are studding out using the old radiator pipes (where the plastic loop is shown). The old pipes are currently coming from the old extension where they are laid in screed. Along with the two CH pipes (2nd and...

Hi all, Hope someone here can help. We previously had cladding on our house which we have gotten rid off. However, even though we used muriatic acid there are still mortar stains in the texture. We used Liquidweather today and that only slightly helped. Can anyone advise what we can do? As we...

No the paper peeled away easily. Also, correction - it's the big tank only which was filling up. Just been playing around and seems the hot water cylinder isnt hot at all. Could this be all due to an airlock?

Just found some paperwork from when we bought the house - apparently we have an Invensys British Gas WC1 Wiring Centre https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/1305392857

Hi, Just been in the attic and there is water in both tanks which is refilling when the hot water tap is open. There is no wiring centre in the cylinder, unless you count a box that says DANGER. I did find some boxes near the boiler. I attach pictures of these along with the controller

Hi, Thanks for your quick response. No one has touched the wiring of this. Silly question, but which controller and wiring centre are you referring to? By controller do you mean where I turn heating/hot water on/off?

Also, in response to your other question, when we backfilled the rads we did it with the garden hose using main cold feed

The 3 port valve was stuck on H regardless of heating only or hot water only selected. Now when I turn the boiler off from mains and on again it moves to W. There is still no hot water but the heating is still coming on when hot water only is selected (valve still at W). The boiler is making a...

Hi all, We have a Worcester Bosch Greenstar Ri boiler. For the past few weeks we have had no hot water from the taps. We have been doing a lot of ad hoc plumbing work like connecting new radiators, backfilling the systems, and at one point we connected the hot water taps upstairs to the cold...

Sorry, so the load bearing wall rests directly on the floorboards (parallel) and the joists below (perpendicular) have trusses but there is no wall directly below on the ground floor. In the attic there is a joist resting on a plank of wood that sits on top of the wall (perpendicular). (See...

Bump! Anyone have an idea?

Funnily enough the subdividing wall seems to be resting on a timber plank on top of the floorboards. The floor it rests on has floor trusses. The wall with the doors also rests on the floorboards only... Can this even be load bearing then?

Yes it supporting some weight from the attic. There's no lintel over either of the doors. Just the wood holding the weight that you can see in the picture

The builder we got in wants to cut up until the last bit of brick (leaving a little bit) and then put in a stud frame to block the door. There's no lintel there already but the weight was resting on a wood frame. The builder is saying the stud wall will hold the weight. I am worried about how...

Hi, we have a wall separating our bathroom and toilet which we'd like to remove. However by doing so I'm afraid about losing support for the wall which has the doors. The house is 1950s and although the wall with the doors seems to be load bearing I can't see a lintel above the doors. I'm...

We don't want to pay to move the stop cock and will be removing the two radiators and adding the new one ourselves. Do you have any ideas how the two radiators may link with each other or which pipe may go through to the radiators at the back from the images I've posted?

Here are the photos- hard to show all the pipes

Hi all! Please excuse the bad drawing, but I've tried to illustrate the various pipes on 3 walls in our dining room which used to be the old kitchen in a house we've bought. The walls were all previously plaster board which we've ripped out. There are two radiators. The left one has pipes coming...

To be honest I was sceptical about the staining he talks about as no one has mentioned this. I took the cladding off as I was told it devalues the house, is this not true? The brick restoration he mentioned is this not something we could do ourselves? He also quoted 4k for a render.