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We don't know whether their footings do encroach on to our land but their Surveyor is asking for the footing details. Unfortunately we are not on speaking terms with our neighbours and even though we've used the same PW Surveyors as they did for their extension they have gone to someone else. I...

We are trying to go through the PW agreement but the neighbours want their own Surveyor, fair enough. He has now come back and asked for footing details. But how do we do this without starting the work. He's also said that if the neighbours extension footings protrude onto our land then we will...

I've struggled over the years with caulking when I paint over it. You can either see as I couldn't get a smooth even finish or it pulls up similar to silicone. What is the best caulking for getting a nice smooth finish and accepting a good oil paint finish on external windows. Richard

Engineer just been, the noise is the large cooling fan. The small oven thermostat doesn't work either so the cooker was overheating too. The mains trip was down to the large oven grill element going short. He said it was due to the large oven never being used and it absorbs moisture over time...

Thanks for all the input guys, but nothing sounds like the problem I've got. Got an Engineer coming in on Thursday to have a look.

Not a problem with our cooker as it's a free standing range type.

I just can't imagine what will cause the loud clicking/banging noise though. And that when it was doing this the MCB didn't trip.

Yes for the whole load but not the individual MCB which the cooker is wired to.

It's a split load main box and the RCD with the cooker on it tripped.

The electrics tripped out over the weekend, but not sure what caused it. The cooker was on at the time so I'm suspecting that to be the problem. When I turned on the oven today, after about 20 minutes when the oven was hot a loud clicking noise started to come for the cooker. But the electrics...

We have a combi boiler running a single zone system over three floors. All rads have TRV's apart from the middle floor bathroom. I would like to upgrade and provide better control over our heating and try to reduce our running costs. I started to read up on the Honeywell Evohome smart system...

Think I’d better get a 2nd opinion then. Thanks.

Are you talking about the main heat exchanger or the plate exchanger for the hot water.

He didn’t offer that solution. Is it possible? Would a de-rocking solution do the trick.

Mother-in-law had the Heating Engineer visit to service it today and he thinks it’s the main heat exchanger which is scaled up and causing the banging. He said a replacement would be around £500 but he doesn’t think the old 38CXI fitted circa 2005 is worth spending the money on. A replacement...

Sorry, I've not been up to look at it but have to assume that the loop water pressure is high enough to allow the CH to work. No, there are no leaking taps.

My mother-in-laws Glow-worm combi has starting making an awful banging noise. Apparently it started about 5 years ago and successive yearly services by a couple of heating engineers has never come up with a fix. One suggested a pipework problem somewhere. In the last year it has become more...

Yes, Cover Stain.

I’ve bought quite a few Zinnser products, Cover plus, 1 2 3 and the interior kitchen paint and I’ve been unimpressed. I started with the Cover plus when I’d stripped the windows and then a coat of grey undercoat and before I could get a top coat on the paint had already started to bubble and...

I’ve just about run out of time with the good weather to paint my bay window. I’ve stripped it back cut out and filled any rot. Covered with aluminium primer and have got the first coat of undercoat. Will this last till the spring or am I ok to paint when the weather is good as the existing...