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All, Our upstairs floor does not feel stable under foot (3m span) and removing the ceiling downstairs for another job I found there are no noggins or struts between the joists. Am I best to install solid noggins or steel herringbone struts? I cannot install the struts on top of the joists as...

Can anyone advise on what products to use to finish hardwood doors? The manufacturers instructions for the hardwood doors (XL joinery) show one coat of preservative and two coats of finish. My problem is I am not sure what constitutes a preservative and where to get it from! We are looking at a...

Thanks for the help.

The plan is to set the existing timer to permanently on, therefore the live from the boiler will be permanent. Therefore can I connect my "live" wire to both the permanent live and common on the new receiver? The boiler is a Ferroli Falcon with a round digital 24hr programmer. Thanks.

Can I simply replace my mechanical stat with a wireless stat? Dont want to touch the boiler so was planning on installing the receiver where the existing stat is. Question is can I do this as my existing stat only has 3 wires (as follows) and the wireless receiver needs 4 wires! Is it possible...

All, Looking to replace a mechanical room stat with a progammable one, does anyone have any good or bad points about the Drayton Digistat +3 or the Honeywell CM901. Cost wise the Drayton is £15 cheaper and prefering this one at the moment. Any advice greatfully received.

Excellent, thanks for the advice.

I am about to install 3 new radiators with a single drop feed, and I know I need to install a drain cock at the lowest point. But do I install a drain cock only on the inlet section of pipe to the radiators, or on both the inlet and outlet sets of pipe? Not sure whether the water will run out of...

Can anyone advise on the installation of top hung bi fold doors? I am worried about drilling holes into the lintel or is this acceptable with modern steel lintels? Also is this a DIY (fairly experienced, just put my own steel beam in which has been signed off by building control) job or only for...

Is there any special way in which Fireline plasterboard should be joined when butted up against each other in a single layer? Need to encase a 3m long steel beam and can only get 2.4m long sheets and dont want to use 2 layers as this will reduce the headroom. Also what should be done at the...

I need to move 2 motion sensors and their fixings to an adjacent wall so the wall can be knocked down. The sensors are only going to be opened to move the fixings not the wiring. Can anyone outline the process I need to go through to ensure I dont screw up my alarm! It is a Veritas alarm...

Hi, Does anyone know how to get the cover off of the pictured thermostat? It is a Honeywell model and has a single screw in the top right corner, but undoing this didnt seem to release the cover. Is there points at which I need to prise the cover off the backplate? Thanks

The existing mechanical thermostat is made by Honeywell, however I cannot find out how to remove the cover and see what is inside. It has a brown backplate and a greeny grey exterior, there is a screw in the top right but removing that does not seem to allow the cover to be removed. I have...

Thanks for the advice, willl be removing the cover on the existing stat to see how many wires there are. Will post the make and model of stat and boiler at the same time.

I have an existing Ferroli boiler which has the small round programmer (1 day only) with a mechanical room thermostat. Is it possible to replace the room thermostat with a digital programmable thermostat to enable better control of the boiler. In essence I want to set the boiler to be on...

I read somewhere on this forum that they suggest a maximum of 2.3kW per 10mm feed? Therefore 2 smaller radiators could run off one spur. My only problem with putting 3 sets of 10mm downpipes in is the connections to the main 22mm ring and whether these should be staggered by any distance? I do...

Can anyone advise on the number of radiators which can be run from a 10mm spur off the 22mm main ring (probably the wrong terms, sorry). We have a system with 22mm feed and return pipework in the upper floor of the house (ceiling of the ground floor), there is then a 10mm feed and return off...