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Currently I can't lock it with the multi point locks from the outside but it closes on the latch and because the outside handle doesn't have a spindle you can't get back in unless you insert the key into the cylinder to disengage the latch. I've found the split spindle/offset version of the...

This may sound bad but we never locked the door before. We just shut it on it's latch and assumed that was secure enough because you couldn't get back in without using the key. Having read about how burglars can get through the letter box to lower the handle from the inside it's probably not ideal!

Thanks for the replies! Now I know what I need to search for. The mechanism does have separate spindle holes and I've fudged it for now by cutting the single spindle so that it's only engaged by the inside handle meaning the outside handle does nothing. I'll find a pad that supports a separate...

Hi I've just installed a new door-stop composite door. Everything went fine until I realised that when you shut the door from the outside, you can simply pull the handle to open it again without using the key. The old UPVC door would shut and pulling the handle down from the outside wouldn't...

Ah okay thanks. That probably explains why I've seen fascias that look flush but have a small gap still there.

Hi I'm building an extension with a warm roof consisting of joists, deck, VCL, insulation, OSB, GPR. My question is how far do the joist need to overhang the outer wall. As it's a warm roof with no ventilation can I do away with the soffit and have the fascia almost flush with the outer wall...

Hi I'm building an extension with a warm roof consisting of joists, deck, VCL, insulation, OSB, GPR. My question is how far do the joist need to overhang the outer wall. As it's a warm roof with no ventilation can I do away with the soffit and have the fascia almost flush with the outer wall...

Thanks, I've measured 4m out and it's plenty enough to be honest so I'll stick to that.

Hi I'm just starting to think about the design of a full width rear extension. I know I'll need an structural engineer but I have an question about the roof. Because of a pre 1938 small 2m out x 4m across extension which will be removed I may want to go 5 maybe 6m back from the rear wall...

Hi I'm just starting to think about the design of a full width rear extension. I know I'll need an structural engineer but I have an question about the roof. Because of a pre 1938 small 2m out x 4m across extension which will be removed I may want to go 5 maybe 6m back from the rear wall...

Okay thought that might be the case. It may be a good few cm more the 10cm in which case removing the slabs only may be an option? Crazy to think that our lounge/dinner has floorboards under the engineered floor and nothing else. I guess that's why the heating is always on!

I'm thinking of extending the house 4m out from the rear wall. We bought the house a few years ago and there was what seemed like a pretty solid patio about 4 inches below the floor level of the house. We then decked over it. If I build an extension do I need to remove the whole patio and sub...

Hi I have a small Salamander shower pump that is wired up to the power feed that fed the old electric shower that was removed and replaced with a pump and a mixer. The RCD is tripping by the fuse box. I can switch it back to on but as soon as I turn the mixer to make the pump kick in, it...

Thanks.

Hi I'm getting 11t of type 1 delivered loose into the front garden. This will be somehow moved to the back garden to lay as a base for artificial grass. I remember they digger driver who whacked a base in our front garden saying that if it rained too much it would ruin the whacking process...

Yes! Thanks I'll give it a good. Can't make it any worse.

Yeah that diagram looks right and matches the photo at the top of page two. I know I am now at a point where nothing can be done without ripping things up. If I close the 15mm isolation valve on the pipe to the bathroom rad in the summer, that will stop HW heating the rads but will also mean...

Sorry I meant same side on all the other rads but opposite side on the bathroom rad.

Oh no. CH only on HW off makes the left bathroom rad valve heat up first. HW only on makes the right bathroom rad valve heat up first. The fact that HW only always heats the same side rad valves as CH only suggest that the return of the bathroom rad is plumbed into the CH flow not return :-(

Another test is on the cards to see CH ON heats up the return of the bathroom rad. I think it does.