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Hi all, I'm building a new extension, where I'm removing aging side passage and conservatory and replacing with an enlarged kitchen (new bedroom also on top). This includes use of a large steel beam to give the open plan feel in the new kitchen/diner. I will certainly need structural...

I've got an F13 on my Glow Worm 30hxi. It's intermittent, which is frustrating to say the least. I'm therefore reluctant to just swap out the PCB at hefty expense. Although its not the 30cxi, I can see the same logic in a faulty relay being the cause for this too. I've also read elsewhere...

Hi all, I have fault F13 on my Glowworm 30hxi boiler. By turning the power on and off I can sometimes get the boiler to function for a while but eventually the error comes back. I've done searching on here and the internet which describes this fault as basically being potentially dodgy...

Thanks for the replies. The house is very large and will be extended to 5 bedroom in the near future. A number of the radiators are large too. In terms of showers, there's currently one shower off a pump and one is electric. These could be on together. There's also a bath and potentially a...

Hi all, My brother in law has had several quotes for replacing his boiler and hot water cylinder. It's a 4 bed house with 12 radiators. One guy has quoted that he'll use an ideal vogue 32kw boiler with 210l unvented cylinder. Another has quoted he'll use a viessmann 36kw boiler with...

Just in case anyone is doing something similar, I've now thought about this a lot more and decided that merging the existing roof with a new hipped roof, at the same angle would work (just missing existing window). I've modelled this below.

Hi all, I'm in the latter stages of planning an extension. If you look at the picture below on the 1st floor I'm filling in the corner of the house with an extra bedroom. On the ground floor I'm pulling down that conservatory, and building an extension in it's place on a similar footprint...

Hi all, I'm planning on building up to my border with a new two storey extension. It's been suggested that I build my bordering wall around 150mm from the border to allow the roof finish/guttering to still fall within my land, but to still utilise the space. This makes sense. What I'm...

Thanks for the advice. I did wonder if it was condensation but it seemed like such a lot of damp to have been solely caused by that. Wouldn't I expect to condensation on the window above the damp, as well as the patio doors next to the area? We will bleach, but I would like to try and do...

By that definition I would describe it as a solid wall. Sorry I'm not hot on terminology. It is basically two bricks thick with at best a half inch gap between. The bricks are turned 90 degrees every so often to join the skins (presumably this is what you're calling headers). I've...

Thanks for the replies. I’ve not seen the DPC but I’ll see if I can have a closer look. The floor is Amtico so can’t come up now that it’s down. The problem area is in a small extended area of the lounge. The main lounge is carpeted. There is a hatch in the floor just in front of that TV...

Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of advice on a damp problem in my lounge. I've posted some pictures below to show the issue. Basically over the past couple of months damp/mould has rapidly appeared in the corner of my lounge. This is under a large window and adjacent to patio doors. Earlier...