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I have to be honest, I didn't think they made cement ones any more. From my point of view, probably two reasons I would not use them. I suspect (but haven't checked) that the bitumen sheets are a lot cheaper. 10 large sheets of bitumen when I last checked could be picked up for around...

Just a guess, but I suppose if your working outward from the hatch then you always have something to kneel or stand on. Plus it may save having thin pieces of board around your hatch, as opposed having them in the eaves where there will be less weight on them. Although my loft is L shaped and...

Firstly I just want to say that I already know the dangers of asbestos and how to handle it due to removing it from my house last year. At the front and back of the garage, the mortar has come away from the edge and down the sides all the flashing has cracked open by about 3-4mm. Structurally...

At first I thought they would be less strenuous thinking they were spaced every couple of feet, but after looking into them, I think they have to be quite close together. Il just stick to good old wood!

Thanks. Just my lack of vocabulary, that's what I was trying to say with "cross beams" Any experience with those loft leg support? I did consider them but was a little worried about the weight distribution.

Last time I boarded a loft there was a fairly thin layer of insulation, so i secured some cross beams on top of the existing ceiling beams and then fixed the boards to those. I had my loft re-insulated when I brought the house last year and it is over 300mm deep. The existing ceiling beams are...

Thanks for that. Learning an awful lot just recently with this boiler. The wording in the report is that we were not provided with a certificate, so it may just be that we never received one although he did register it. The pressures that I can remember from before xmas were: At the meter...

Quick Update: The report has come through and GAS Safe have written to the installer instructing him to come back and correct a few things, including filling out all the Vaillant paper work. Other things covered are: Fused spur is fitted with the wrong AMP fuse. Minimum working pressure is...

Well I know he had done the GAS Safe registration because I had all the paper work come through from that, but obviously its not their responsibility to make sure he has filled out the other paper work, or at least not the Vaillant bits. Which is quite interesting because last year over the...

He had filled out all the other paper work, and I have the acknowledgement from GAS Safe to say the installation had been registered with them, so I really hope he had notified the local building control but I will check. It was just the installation booklet that records all of the checks and...

Agile, good point regarding updating Vaillants records, I will make sure I do that. The installer was a company called Radway, based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. As for who corrected it, you may remember we had this discussion in a post towards the end of last year where you accused me of...

I just wanted to check something. We had an issue with the installation of our boiler by an independent company. A Vaillant engineer came out to check an issue and condemned it (its brand new but was installed with insufficient pressure). Got pressure sorted, but wanted everything fully...

The measurement was taken from the test point inside the boiler while running at maximum output. i am starting to worry the guarantee maybe void as none of the paper work was filled in correctly apart from registering the installation. Will be calling vaillant in the morning to see what options...

I'm not asking you to believe me, its not a court. a friends dad came and helped me to clear the pipe to see if it avoided paying for a relay, which it appears it has. he was doing me a favour as he is not meant to do jobs outside of work. I still need the vaillant engineer to return and look...

It was a gas safe engineer that helped me do it and that tested the pressure so please do not assume that I'm an idiot and that i have put people in danger before having the full facts. the boiler was was tested at the same points and in the same method as the vaillant engineer. And lets not...

We had the boiler and central heating system installed a year ago when we purchased the house, but didn't actually move in until last week. I'm starting to realise he was a cowboy, he never installed a room thermostat which i believe is building regulations isn't it? The engineer that came...

I did call him but he has been off ill all week and said he was not sure when he would be able to get to me. The system was installed within the first 2 months of us buying the house (about a year ago), but we never moved in due to renovation works, so its only been used for washing up the...

Gigz, I hope it is a simple as that, but my concern is the pipe reduces as it gets closer to the boiler, if there is debris in the pipe im worried about it getting lodged. Where as im thinking if its blown the other way, back towards the meter there is less chance of this. That seems logical...

The Vaillant engineer that came out. He ran a pressure test at the boiler, when it kicked in full the pressure went from 22 down to 5. Ran same test at the meter, when the boiler kicked it it dropped from 22 to 20 suggesting there is a partial blockage/reduction in flow somewhere...

Had a similar issue earlier in the year when renovating our house. Ended up just replacing the board. With the correct tools its not that difficult to cut them out. I found that a multitool made a clean job of it. And always remember to cut on a beam! PS its wise to know if your size...