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My Salus wireless thermostat packed up after about 14 months doing the same thing, the wireless receiver module was the fault (the bit hard wired to the boiler) - the wireless thermostat showed it was sending out the heating command, the wireless receiver made a little click suggesting it was...

Thanks all, much appreciate the assistance, glad the water was spraying away from the electronics, although a fine mist of water was covering a fair amount of piping and such, I think it missed the electronics.

Hi, no idea how long it had leaked, certainly a large puddle was formed. Power turned off when spotted. We were using hot water soon before I went outside and noticed so all was working ok till then. The fine jet of mist was spraying away from the electronics and to the rear with no water seen...

It's the all plastic flow switch - black plastic fitting that screws onto the chrome inlet pipe just after the isolation valve and it does have an electrical cable attached. I believe this has a paddle that detects flow to ensure there's sufficient water pressure to operate. Here's the...

Hi, found a puddle of water next to my outdoor Grant oil combi 26 boiler, took the lid off and found the plastic flow valve on the mains cold water inlet had a tiny crack in it and is spraying water all inside. Any idea what sort of cost one of these might be to get fitted? or who/where I...

I've seen slate DPC on the house when looking through where an airbrick was (I'd taken out a rusted iron vent and replaced) and there's felt/bitumen visible on the newer extension but lord knows what they did when they laid the concrete floor in the extension and the kitchen (which was probably...

Hi, wasn't sure if this should go here or in Plastering section: My 1906 end of terrace had a side extension added in mid 1980's adding a garage and small seperate room and a bedroom above. The small ground floor room is accessible by an archway from kitchen. Now we've been in the house about...

In my last house which got a bit drafty under the floorboards we had slight black dust marks around the edges of the carpet where air blew up from underneath and drew up dust with it. Maybe that's the dark marks you're seeing rather than mould?

Yes that's kind of what I was saying.... the damp treatments may help or may just mask the real problem for some time and then the problems can sometimes reappear. Basically there's no simple one shot answer with damp as its can be caused by many different problems,

Damp is an interesting issue and I'm no expert, just someone with my own damp to deal with! There are many reasons for it and a variety of solutions....I have similar situation (but not very damp at the moment) and have read a book about damp and read up as much as I can online to understand...

When I had some damp treatments and replastering done some years ago, before I'd heard about some of the alternative theories of 'rising damp' - I was told the same thing by the builders, drill the hole, fill with silicon and plug n' screw as per usual. Whether it's just to cover themselves...

The black line behind the top wood frame is where I removed a 1inch strip of plasterboard to see what was above. I can see the thin black plastic on top of wooden frame and bricks sitting on that. Not sure about the inner wall as I haven't wanted to disturb too much plaster.

Thanks for all your replies, I guess it would make sense that this happened when a bigger door was fitted sometime back..... the bricks show being hacked somewhat around the door frame. My main concern is what is holding up the inner breezeblocks (as mentioned, I guess they were retrofitted...

Hi, been living in a 100 year old house for 2 years and slowly repairing/renovating it. Now there is a brick addition at the back (was bath/toilet years ago) and is now a utility room and the main back door. It's pretty clear that the construction of this is somewhat shoddy and there doesn't...

Hi, yes the damp is from the ground up to about 2 feet..... it only appears to happen when it rains heavily for a few days at a time, like today. I noticed the walls feel a little damper today whereas they were pretty much dry over the previous weeks and throught the 'summer' We don't dry...

Hi, my 1905 house suffers from some damp walls inside, as there was only 1 airbrick on the front of the house I put one at the rear and 2 on the side to aid ventilation through the cavity. It's an end of terrace. A nice draught flows through all the airbricks. I found a slate DPM on the inner...