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Thanks Flameport (very nice clear explanation) and stem - I guess it does look like the thermostat misbehaving. It's a Honeywell DT92E and today I noticed it showing flashing "radio waves" which according to the user guide indicates a loss of RF communication. Now apparently the receiver box...

Well I've done a bit of troubleshooting now and I think it's probably the valve sticking intermittently? Is that a thing? Valves are 1 x Honeywell 2-port (HW), 1 x Honeywell-compatible (CORGI brand?) 2-port (CH). Programmer is a Horstmann which seem pretty common. When this problem happened...

But it seems weird that they're both currently in the same position.. unless they're sticking rather than stuck and maybe turning it off it freed the sticky one up?? Is it worth turning the CH on and off at the programmer and see what happens to the levers on the motorised valves?? Seems...

So we’ve woken up this morning thinking it’s really hot (obvs it’s been 30 deg plus outside every day lately) but then noticed that all the rads are all on full blast! The (wireless) thermostat is set to 17 deg and reading 30 deg (indoors at 9am!). Programmer was on (timed, as normal) so have...

I’m going to go ahead with the smaller tiles, and I think you’re right it’ll look OK. Thanks!

Hello, we had our bathroom done a few years ago with 40cmx40cm tiles on both walls and floor (different colour but same make and format of tiles). It was a decent job and the grout lines/tiles lined up everywhere from floor to wall in every direction (if you know what I mean). We've had to...

Unfortunately, it is boarded - effectively a solid timber roof that's then been felted. So I need to attack it from the outside, which I guess means a scaffold tower or some such to get up there and something to spread my weight so I can reach up to the top part of the roofing. What's the best...

We have a large (8.2m x 2.6m) shed in the back garden, it has a monopitch roof with the highest point right on the boundary with the neighbours. The neighbours have at some point (before we moved here) built their own shed as a kind of 'lean-to' onto the back of ours. The roof as it stands is...

My Dad has an engineered wood floating floor in his kitchen that's worn and damaged, and I've offered to help him take it up and lay a new one. The existing floor is a pretty standard 15mm 3-strip oak board on a 3mm underlay. I've a fair bit of experience laying these, but there's an issue I...

Thanks - I don't actually have a router, so I was thinking of drilling a pattern of holes to the right depth with a flat bit, and chiselling off the bits in between. There's an overlap of at least 8mm so should be easily covered. Just didn't want to be a botcher!!! But thanks again - sounds...

I can highly recommend the Osmo Polyx - great finish and easy to work with. Shop around a bit because the price varies, and don't buy too big a tin as you'll probably use less than you think. Put it on thin. Make sure to rub it down (gently - don't know how thin that veneer might be!!) with...

In the process of hanging new internal doors. One of them is the tank cupboard which opens out into a narrow hallway, so have bought a flush-fitting "squash court door" handle (was fed up catching my elbow on the previous doorknob). It needs to be recessed 18mm into the door, which is fine...

Have put in a call to a plumber. Definitely wouldn't be trying to do this myself - i just don't understand half the mass of stuff in the tank cupboard - but hoped to get some pointers as to what might be wrong. Previous house had warm air heating (brilliant: instant warmth, no bleeding rads...

Noticed yesterday when water heating was boosted that there was water trickling through the tundish - we have a megaflo-type setup and pressure gauge remains at the 3 bar mark as before. I'm no expert, but I gather water coming through the tundish indicates a problem that needs attention -...

Haven't had a chance to take the sheets up yet, but from the plans I suspect that it's built on the concrete oversite. (It's a timber frame house with a concrete oversite, the floor sits on joists which sit on small brick walls built on the oversite; the chimney/hearth part seems to be a...

Was hoping not to have to do that! I guess I'd only have to deal with the right hand section where it gets above the floor level. Even so, I'd be slightly scared of damage to the new slate hearth (under the taped-down carpet in the photo) which is cemented onto the concrete. What would you use...

So, I'm about to lay a new engineered wood floor over a suspended timber (chip) floor which is reasonably solid and flat. Unfortunately, there's a small section of concrete (that supported the original hearth) that is flush with the chip at one end but about 8mm proud at the other. It looks as...

No, you don't need to speak french! The product in the video isn't exactly the same model as mine, but was close enough to figure it out - hopefully for you too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6qFFyqftdM