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Noted on the Rich Matt - will be getting some Trade Supermatt for the mist coat on the walls then! Had a look the other day on the Dulux Trade website but it seems that they don't do a Non-vinyl matt in the colour the mrs wants (69BG 77/076 Holiday Blues 6). It seems that Supermatt and Fast...

I'm having the kitchen done at the moment and have had the walls and ceiling plastered (walls bonding coat and skim, ceiling plasterboard and skim). I've painted the ceiling with a mist coat of Dulux Retail Rich Matt, because my mrs was in a rush and wanted it done yesterday and I'm going to...

Ok, bearing in mind that one tile needs changing and it is easily within arm's reach of a person standing on a ladder working out of the velux window - would this vent tile do the job? http://www.klober.co.uk/product3.php?id=72 Any ideas as to a fair price for the job? I've had a few...

Hi, I have a sloping internal roof in my shower room with a Velux window and an extractor fan with a delay fitted to the lighting circuit but I have still been having problems with damp in the room. I removed the extractor fan from the sloping ceiling as it was rattling a treat and replaced...

The carpet fitters are coming on Monday, I refuse to pay £1.80 per metre as Allied quoted for gripper rod, I've found gripperrod for wooden floors on tradepriced.com at reasonable prices but it probably won't get here in time. Does anyone know where I can get similar spec gripper rod around the...

I've just dug out a small strip (5.7m x 1m) out the back of my house for decking. I was going to use 5x2 for the frame, currently I'm planning to put supporting blocks every 1.5m or so - sound about right? Due to a drainage pipe running under the planned deck placing supports to the central...

I'm looking to put in a new 1/4 landing so I don't have to keep going down and then up the same steps all the time. I'm not sure the 2 steps are level, is the best way to approach this to put a piece of something like 18mm ply onto the existing steps, level using wedges then screw in place...

Thanks for that, spotted the neutral thing too - I'm a numpty. I'm not really in the mood for running more cable so I'll go and have a look at the MK grid stuff. Thanks again.

Hi all, Just a quick, is this possible question. I currently have 3 way switching to my landing light, from the hall downstairs, the landing at one end and the landing at the other end. The intermediate switch is a 2 gang modular crabtree switch that looks rubbish - I have MK Logic Plus...

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Not the most successful weekend so far - I whipped the DHW heat ex out on Saturday, not that bad at all (I gave it a quick rinse through and got rid of the scale and sludge using domestic descaler) then I fitted a new towel radiator and flushed the system through a couple of times, water was...

There must be something that does an ok job? I don't really want to spend over £120 on a new one when I could clean the one I have. Similar to above - do you have to buy the whole Heat Exchanger seal kit or is there a DHW HEX Seal Kit of its own? Thanks!

I've found a website selling the kits mentioned above and I'm going to order them, just a quick sanity check though, to recon the diverter vlv, clean the heat exchanger and recon the DHW flow vlv (while I've got it off anyway) will the following kits do? Seal Kit 760 Repair 3 Port Vlv (Pt No...

Sorry should have added that the Hot Water has been fine in the past (although this is the first winter we've lived in the house), which leads me to think that it is a component failure issue that seems to be getting a bit worse.

Thanks - sounds like something I can get on with. Can you suggest anywhere reasonable to get hold of the diverter recon kit (or a baxi diverter as you suggest)? I suppose the plate exchanger is just a case of remove and clean with industrial descaler? I'll check the heating return filter...

Just an update - got fed up waiting for the recommended Heating Engineer so I called Alpha. They gave me the name of the local contractors, they came round 3 days later, serviced the boiler and now it sort of works. Engineer said that it probably needs a new diverter valve and dhw heat...

Nope, got a heating engineer recommended to me. The Alpha helpline said DHW temp sensor or PCB - sounds like they're trying to sell parts! The boiler was used for house before it was extended - 1 bedroom and ensuite added plus new lounge, boiler was then re-sited. I'll try and speak to...

Intermittent DHW and CH, I think we're going to be in the house for at least 4 years so don't want to chuck good money after bad to get this thing sorted. I think the APS is the problem with the Alpha at the moment so going to try that before doing the new boiler option (with associated...