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I need one because theres no mains sewer. Our current system is a septic tank believed to be around 50 years old and its in a bad way,needing emptying around every 8 weeks. The cost of setting up a new system isnt really much less than putting a biodisc in once the hassle factor is added,and...

Im talking of a conventional boiler feed expansion. Surely the gravity aspect wouldn't count as the CH water is electrically pumped around the circuits? Id still be tempted to put a sevice valve at the tank outlet for sevicing-X100 insn't cheap!

Anyone had direct experience of a Biodisc - anyone got one?

Do you HAVE to put the boilers header tank in the loft. I have to repace the entire system soon and as the boiler lives in its own apartment built on an outside wall I wondered whether I could put the tank in the loft of the boiler room which is about 3'x7' by 9ft high. The water supply is...

Thanks for the builer centre lead -what section is it under-I cant see it!

Chrisr -Im a great fan of pva (I'd put it on me cornflakes if I could)but it didnt work for long. lime is the only thing I havent tried yet ....

well if you undo the nuts on the radiator valves from the pipe (you get verry wet...) you would be left with the nut held on the end of the pipe by the olive. You could screw a 15mm isolating valve to this ,then put a new short length of pipe on the other end of the isolator ,and then on up to...

Anyone know of a supplier/retailer of Marley bat-access bricks or another solution that is tidier than slots cut in things

Ive been heavy-Diying on and off for around 15 years now and IMHO you either hire the specific tool for the job or buy the budget ones and expect to throw them away regularly.Ive learned never to buy midrange Bosch or B+D etc. The wolf is a rebadged Ferm as sold by Screwfix-I have one and...

I had the same in the last house-transco supplied the outside supply and a meter,my corgi bloke put all the internal lines in and installed the boiler.He terminated the line in the kitchen.I connected the cooker and hob myself (naughty boy-but my mitigation was the work was supervised by the...

Thanks DAZB The stone repair is not on display-I have to bond some engineering- brick piers to the original walls where the previous owners efforts to merge two semi's had gone wrong. I think Ill do a separate posting in DIY Disasters! I wanted to know a good mix of ingredients for the...

I didnt bother skimming I just filled the gaps with cove adhesive that was to hand and artexed the blighter straight to the plasterboard. I cant remember which side (white or grey) I used,apparently it does matter. Its still there four years later so it did work!

How do you join damproof membrane when concreting an oversize room?-abig overlap and lots of bitchumen is one way Ive been told.. Whats an appropriate mortar recipie for rpairing stone (sandstone in this case.The old mortat is wite and crumbly (lime?) Whats the minimum size timber that...

Copper pipework should be protected from contact with things like cement and plaster as some contain ingredients which canhave detrimental effects upon it.

Yes provided the bitumen is still fairly plastic -if its flaky then no. If bitumen has been put down its likely that the floor is damp due to the failure or absence of a membrane.Some people ,especially the mortgage surveyor/dampproofing industry collaboration make a big fuss of such matters...

that would be just a load of bull

Paving block bedding sand or sharp sand is also stable.Possibly cheaper than the pea shingle. Builders sand becomes fluid when loaded with water.

15 years ago ,never having picked up a hammer,move into delapidated 2 bed Vic terrace.Big ideas and not one iota of how to go about realising them. The old boy who had just died there left a catalouge of sadness.His downstairs rooms were carpeted with a patchwork of 18"square carpet samples...

The Klargester sewarage treatment machines. Has anyone had any experience with these contraptions?What did you pay and where from.Do they need emptying more than once a year? The house we are buying has a soakaway which is just about clapped out and the ground is unlikely to pass a porosity...

Thanks all Ive done some more digging and it would appear that the Holy 16th makes no issue of using 1.0 mm as long as the voltage drop/current/ loading shebang isnt abused, ie in an excessivly long and loaded run. I only plan to use the specialist-colour cored 1.0mm to run to the switches...