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Yes, I'm planning on NVR in the loft. I just thought that strapping the cable to guttering fall pipes seemed a bit heath robinson for a "professionally installed" system hence one of my justifications for doing it myself. I considered the cabling to perhaps be the most troublesome part of the...

After getting a couple of quotes for a 5 camera installation on our house I'm looking at doing the job myself. I perhaps expected a bit too much but the installers seem to just want to mount the cameras half way up the house wall which is as I would expect but then tie wrapping the cabling to...

i have a very slight leak on my glass fibre roofed garage extension. I have traced it I think to where the matting laps over the raised edge trim, it's either there or it's percolating through a small area where there seems less gel coat/resin over the matting. What is the best way to cure...

after going through the usual flooring options, LVT, Vinyl, laminate etc we are tending towards a solid oak one. Rather than just have it a natural colour though we fancy some sort of grey or similar colour which retains the natural grain through the colour. Some sort of wash type colour that...

No suggestions ?

I'd thought about that but both rads are only small single panel rads, certainly combined less than the size of most of the others in the house.

im wanting to put an additional rad in my kitchen. The closest existing rad is about 2 metres away in the hallway. To pipe it I somehow need to get across the floor. The floor is a floating floor i.e. T&G chipboard panels on top of 1" polystyrene sheets with solid underfloor. The pipe is in...

I'm puzzled by the heating in my daughters home. I posted a while ago about her Vokera boiler losing pressure daily when the heating was on. I was going round filling it every 3rd day or so but I've left it lately. It's been at zero for about 3 weeks but the heating has been operating fine. The...

Yes I suppose it makes sense to try and maintain some sort of interlocking joint rather than just butting it

I've made a bit of progress and decided to chop the newel out. It isn't into the floor just sat on top of it. I've removed the nails which are pinning it to the tenon at the end of the stringer. I've cut it off at stringer level and I'm going to split it down with a chisel to remove it I'm just...

I'm looking for a bit of guidance on sorting the bottom newel post. It has been like it since the house was built about 25 yrs ago. We are decorating stairs and landing and fancy a bit of a baluster makeover. I didn't realise how far out the newel was until I took the handrail baserail and...

Thanks very much

Thanks. Just confirm common in hive to 2 on the boiler diag and 3 in hive (heating on n/o) to no 1 on boiler diag

I'm looking at buying a Hive. I have a duotec, the only control I have is a Siemens wireless room stat at the moment across terminals 1&2 on the boiler connections Am I correct in thinking I just need the heating call wire (no 3 on the hive) connected to connection No 1 on the boiler and...

It's great, can't fault it, runs showers better than we've had before. House is warmer than its been for years. I will leave you boys to get on with your boiler snobbery *******s

Oh crikey no, they were here from 8am til 10pm on day 1 making sure everything was piped up then back for 4 hours the following day. Looks like they were a bit unlucky with the bit of grit in the valve. Very pleased with the whole job, neat pipe work, nice cable runs, good brick match and...

Sorted, Baxi engineer called this morning, small piece of grit stuck in diverted valve. He fitted a new valve too. Good service.

It was only fitted on Monday. I will get heating eng back out.

ive just had a new Baxi Duotec fitted, I noticed today after running the shower the upstairs rads had got warm, tested it again tonight and the longer the shower runs the hotter the rads get. Surely there should be something equivalent to a diverted valve that should only allow hot water and not...

I've had a Mira magna pumped digital for 9 years and it's been fine. Just looking at different options now I'm on a combi