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Tonight our boiler decided to ignore requests to heat our hot water, instead it fires up and heats the radiators, even though the central thermostat is telling it to not do so. It's a Worcester Bosch condensor 25HE, only 3.5 years old, and running fine until now. I've tried hitting the...

We're re-tiling a bathroom wall and one wall is a bit wavey, though the plaster is pretty sound - just a couple of patches going back to the brick and some plaster finish has come away. The uneveness is particularly the case from the window recess edge to the rest of the wall as the frame is a...

Our electrician (from registered local firm, not dodgy) has just used the wire that used to feed an electric shower in the bathroom to wire the oven in the kitchen below. This has meant extending the wire with a junction box and then running it through the ceiling below. He has put this in the...

They are new taps - it's the only change, but I did notice the plumber turned the stoptap on absolutely full, so I'll try and turn it down a bit, and if all else fails go for a gizmo, as so helpfully suggested (thanks for the link Mr Slug thingy. :D

It's quieter this evening, maybe people aren't using thier washing machines or something. Absolute minimum cause is our immediate neighbours when they use their kitchen taps and shut them off - they've done it on purpose for us to check the cause and it confirmed our suspicions. Is this too...

It seems to be. I can see our next door's kitchen from our house and we get a bang when they use the taps (and when the guy was working on their boiler). I can't see other people's kitchens, but last night our immediate neighbours weren't in their kitchen and our pipes were banging every 5...

a clunk, of varying noise levels - sometimes just slight, sometimes quite alarming. When our immediate neighbours had work done on their boiler the other day it was very loud - that's when I'd had enough. You can feel the vibrations.

We live in a terraced row of 12 and are right in the middle. Recently (after having new kitchen taps fitted) we have developed banging in our water pipes when our neighbours use the water supply. At first it seemed to be just our immediate neighbours, but has progressed to include more of...

We had a latex screed put down on top of old terracotta floor tiles in our kitchen a couple of months ago. They laid the screed one afternoon and came back the next morning to lay the lino flooring. Ridges have appeared across the floor now. Having presumed the floor would be flat I'm a bit...