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Hi all I know this is more towards decorating but you guys deal with this PVA stuff everyday so must of come across this I have been removing an existing wall coating from the outside of my property and now want to secure / seal certain areas before I apply the paint. What PVA would be...

Hi all I have been removing an existing wall coating from the outside of my property and now want to secure / seal certain areas before I apply the paint. What PVA would be best, waterproof or normal, it is an external paint job so water proof would seem the obvious choice but seems that I...

I have just bought this honeywell RF stat and looking through the installation manual I cannot understand the wiring arrangement for the receiver, I am going to use 2x 2 core heat flex cable (1 for the voltage free switch and the other for L&N). Anyone installed these willing to share the...

I have just bought this honeywell RF stat and looking through the installation manual I cannot understand the wiring arrangement for the receiver, I am going to use 2x 2 core heat flex cable (1 for the voltage free switch and the other for L&N). Anyone installed these willing to share the...

Same thing happened to us tonight, Sitting in the lounge when suddenly a loud bang, then noticed one of the panes of the french doors had shattered. On closer inspection its the inside pane that has shattered, off to get a replacement in the morning.

I have removed the old thermostat and can see 3 wires, 1 yellow , 1 red and 1 blue and then the earth attached to the backplate. Is there an easy way for me to test that all 3 wires have been completely disconnected using the multimeter, the terminated cable I found directly above in the old...

I have an old sunvic mechanical room thermostat that was disconnected when the new combi boiler was installed in the loft. I now want to connect a new honeywell digital CM901 programmable thermostat in the hallway to replace the old disconnected sunvic. There are 3 wires going to the...

No the cable is new, just a figure of speech so that I follow what your saying, I have just had another look after reading D_Hailsham comments so I could either wire the L&N to the receiver from the terminal block where the 230V supply comes in, or replace X2/1 and X2/2 with the connection from...

What you are basically saying is that where the 3A supply feeds into the boiler terminal blocks, take a L&N from there to the receiver and use the other 2 spare cores for the voltage free connection from receiver to boiler, i.e black & brown (Live and neutral) and red and blue for voltage free...

Why would I need 4-5 cores, having opened up the connection box and look at the diagrams it seems only 2 cables are required from receiver to boiler. I will be spurring off the boiler power supply cable which is plugged into a 3A fused socket, would you suggest the same cable be used for...

D_Hailsham here is the installation guide from the ferroli manual What would be the best cable to use to connect the receiver, would I need 2 single cables or just 1 twin if possible. Thanks A.S

Hi all, I currently have no room thermostat attached to my ferroli combi boiler, out of 11 rads there are 8 that have TRVs fitted. Firstly are the wireless devices reliable? I have the Ferroli manual and the Honeywell installation manual, its seems fairly straight forward fitting the...

I have recently purchased a 1960s semi detached property which has a total of 11 cavity air bricks. 3 at the front (1 below bay window and 2 level with first floor windows), 5 on the side (3 at just above ground level and 2 just above first floor windows) and finally 3 at the rear (1 below...

Matt out of curiosity where is this draft likely to be coming from? My parents home same year built, cavity walled etc has exposed floorboards in 2 of the bedrooms up stairs and no draft. At the moment exposing and sanding my boards is not an option due to the amount of draft it would create in...

Thanks Matt. So its a case of leave well alone then, was thinking of fitting new carpets with some good quality underlay.

I have a wall coating (Sprayed on type) around 15 year old that is starting to flake and peel in certain areas where the wind hits the property the hardest. I am going to paint over the coating but firstly remove all the flaking and peeling bits. Various people I speak to say I need to seal...

I have recently purchased a 1960s semi and was changing the downstairs light fittings when I felt a draft coming through the ceiling, connected the light fitting and thought no more of it. No the colder weather is settling in I have found that in the airing cupboard upstairs that has no carpets...

Depressurise? What will that mean me doing. The radiator is in the lounge downstairs, The way I was looking to approach it was to close the inline valve that allows water to flow downstairs through the system (This is in the old airing cupboard) Close both valves either side of the rad,remove...

Are these any good when changing a valve on a 15mm pipe, the bottle states up to 30min freeze time, So could you cap the end of the pipe before the 30mins expires. If this is correct and possible what would be the best method for this, Don't want to drain the full system just to replace a rad...

Ok guys I am going to change the valve, straight swap for a new lockshield. What options do I have, Don't really want to drain the system just to change the valve as topped up with inhibitor only 3 months ago. Any suggestions, there is a drain valve on the radiator and I have also been told...