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Evening all. So yesterday I woke up to no heating. Had a look at the boiler and noticed a small drip coming out of the condensate trap on the underside of the boiler. The (40mm) condensate pipework runs through the wall to outside and connects to a down pipe. I took the front cover off the...

Hi, wondering if anyone can shed any light on which replacement ECH Actuator I need Photo of mine below As usual it’s waited until I’m away with work to pack in, but it sounds like a similar issue I had with my hot water valve where a constant switched live was being generated by the...

Hi all. I’ve got a Baxi 400 heat-only boiler (located in the garage) with an S-plan htg/DHW set up. The pump is located in airing cupboard with the control valves and the unvented cylinder. When we first moved in, we found the heating pump ran constantly regardless of heating or DHW demand...

Hi - we moved house in October last year and the previous owners didn’t do much maintenance. The front and rear of the house has yard areas with Indian Sandstone paving. These have come up a treat with some cleaning, however the substrate is shot. The odd loose flags are easy enough to sort...

Evening all. Treated myself to a nice new mixer tap for the en suite this afternoon and thought I’d get on with fitting it when I got home. Everything went to plan until I got to connecting the female thread tap connectors onto what I thought were BSP male threads. I couldn’t get the thread to...

Evening all. My soil pipe has developed a leak where the shower waste connects to it and I’ve got a new strap on boss and 50x40mm adaptor and my plan was to fit this where the existing connection is. The strap-on fits the main 110mm pipework perfectly - HOWEVER the shower waste currently...

Hi - I’ve got a double garage with 2 Hormann Promatic garage door openers. I’d like to be able to open these using either my phone or Alexa/Siri (I have both devices). I’m thinking something like the Meross receiver kit (I know I’d need one per door)...

Hi, and good day to you. I was wondering if any of you learned folk would be able to assist with identifying this fitting? I'm referring ot the one with the black cap, not the lockshield Thanks in advance

Good morning all, We've recently embarked on a new Utility Room project which also includes painting the kitchen. It's a new build house (3.5 years old but this is the first lick of paint the kitchen will have had) plus there's some bare plaster where we've moved doors as part of the Utility...

Good morning all, I'm looking to move my cloakroom (downstairs) WC. The intended location is 90 degrees in rotation and about 1m in pipe length from the current soil pipe pop-up through the slab. The previous WC position was sat directly above the pop-up and a long flexible pan connector was...

Good evening all, I'm mid-way through a project which has involved moving 2 radiators and branching off one of these to install a new radiator. I did all the first-fixing a while ago (drained down, made break-ins etc...) and today I have drained down again and made the final connections. I...

Hi all, We’re part way through a Utility Room project and have had a local company round to quote for some Karndean flooring to match our existing Kitchen/Dining Room. The guy that came round was very concerned with the levelling compound that the builder had used as in his opinion it was...

Hi all. I’m having some work done at my house that’s involved taking a radiator off. I isolated the radiator last night so it would be cool this morning and the heating was working fine last night/this morning. I’ve come home to a note from the builder saying that the boiler needs...

Hi, I’m trying to source some Edenhall Darlstone pitched walling blocks in buff to fill in a void that’s going to be left by the removal of an external door at my house. It’s a (relatively) new build that’s 3 years old. I’m moving the door further down the wall it’s currently fitted (so it...

Hi all, I'm looking at a new project at home to form a Utility Room by stealing some garage space. Looking to change from this To this I've drawn it all up and started cutting out bits of boxing etc... to make sure my plans work and identify where the services run, BUT I've hit a...

Hi, fist time posting in a long time on here. My Mum is getting a new kitchen to replace her +38 year-old one!! She’s not wanting any sockets moving or any new circuits. There is an electric cooker switch already wired in but her current oven is gas which she will probably change to a new...

Hi all, first post in a while but here goes! I have recently moved into a new-build home and we have an issue with the integral garage door. Do to the position of the doorway into the garage being neat to the front of the property (it's just before the stairs in the hallway) if the main garage...

Hello chaps. Now that the nice(r) weather is upon us my attentions have been moved outside. We have a 5-ish year old Indian sandstone patio that has a step up to the house due to the garden slope and the flags are starting to wobble and the pointing is failing. It's about 25 square-metres...

Hi guys & gals. As above , I'm looking to breath a new lease of life into my chimenea. The main reason it needs painting is that I don't think I sealed it when I first bought. What type of paint should I be considering? I've searched the net and found a range of answers from basic emulsion to...

Hi all, I'm wanting to section off one half of my garage to form a room. The garage is detached to a new build house (2011) but doesn't form part of our long term plans for the house as we are probably going to end up with an extension in place of where the garage is now, therefore I'm not...