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We want to use our loft for storage and need to board it out but first I need to sort out access. Our hatch is on our landing, which is tiny (the photo I've taken is from the top step of the stairs). Is my only solution to move it somewhere else?

A few years ago I had external wall insulation put round my house and ever since then I've had water coming into my back room at one of the junctions between the main house and a single story side extension. The water runs down the bit of the roof closest to the wall and overflows the end of...

I installed this a few years ago and it works fine (with the standard exception of sometimes not getting notifications which I understand is a server issue). Yesterday I installed some Ring cameras and am getting poor wifi on one of them, the layout of the house means that the alarm is about...

About two years old and toughened glass. Do you remember what film you used? I've just put up some cameras this morning.

Just had a bit of a scary evening. Next door neighbor went out for dinner and while they were out someone smashed through the glass in their sliding doors, unlocked them and made off with their stuff. Whilst this was going on we were sat in our dining room no more than a few feet from her back...

I have a chimney that's connected to nothing and causes water to leak into the rooms to the side and below and want to get it removed. A few years back I had EWI fitted and what I hadn't noticed was that the fitters hadn't taken account of the change in roof pitch behind the chimney so the EWI...

I was previously thinking about a rear infill extension but have discovered an issue with our roof that has made me reconsider what we do next. We have a lot of cracked tiles in the lower portion of our roof and the felt underneath has completely rotted away so we get leaks when it rains. We'd...

I have an inspection chamber in my drive right where one of my car wheels sits, I try to keep off it as it has always had a crack in it but given the size of the drive it can be quite difficult. Can I get a replacement one that will hold the weight of a car? I think I need a new one anyway...

SGN are currently replacing all the gas mains in our road. They are all 1930's built houses with the meters under the stairs and the info they stuck through the door last week says they are pushing plastic pipe up the existing lines. I've come home to a bit of paper through the door saying they...

Had some windows installed two years ago and have always had a slight draught from them plus we get farting noises from them when it's windy. I spent a lot of time trying to adjust them yesterday before giving up. The last thing I did was to measure the width of the gap that the window closes...

What would cause that? For info the boiler is 4 years old, the rads are all between 0-4 years old (as is the pipework), there's a magnaclean fitted which never looks particularly dirty and the water I flushed out last time was completely clear. We live in a hard water area and I used a...

I bled one of the two radiators in the bedroom earlier and quite a bit of air came out and then the water that came out after that was fizzy, not hugely but enough to keep bubbling for a while in the cup I used (plus it was obviously frothy as it came out of the rad). I suspected there might...

Untitled by m0t posted 12 Mar 2014 at 5:58 PMI realise that this is a bit like how long is a piece of string but I'm trying to work out what I should be roughly aiming for in terms of savings for getting this extension done. I want to fill in the back section of the house on the ground floor...

I suspect a lot of these sorts of threads will appear over the next few months given the summer we've just had. My house is a 1930's semi in SE London (so clay soil). Over the hot June/July we had a lot of shrinkage of the ground as temperatures stayed so hot and I had large cracks running...

My house is a strange mixture of construction techniques - it was built in the early 1930s using materials and labour from England and France. This means that in some areas I have an early for me of plasterboard on the walls and ceiling and in others it's lathe and plaster. Every doorway in my...

I just added some leak sealer to my system, what sort of issues does it cause?

No, the rads get hotter than the return (based on the back of my hands). The main problem is that it was cutting in for 5 minutes every 15 and the flow temp had dropped over 20 degrees by the time it started back up again. I'm assuming that was why the house wouldn't get up to temperature...

Just checked and it was fluctuating between 6-10 degrees at 65 degrees flow.

I'll start by saying I'm not a gas engineer and my understanding is that the trap forms part of the flue system and shouldn't be played with unless you know what you are doing. That said I had an issue where the trap on my last combi wasn't free flowing and it was caused by a build up of scale...

Watched it this morning and it was going into anti cycling mode every 15 minutes or so which stopped everything and let the water temp drop about 20 degrees. I've turned the boiler down to 14.5kwh to allow for some error in my calculations and will see how that goes. I cleaned the filter our...