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apologies if my first post was unclear, not being a professional it can be difficult to explain things with clarity, especially when you don’t know the correct terminology:(

everything goes into the same drain. Our neighbours drains, waste and sewage as well as our rainwater goes into the same inspection chamber, via different drain pipework, obviously! it is an old system. I know that these days sewage goes into a separate chamber and main, but our 1920’s road...

I have a problem whereby my 1920’s built end terrace house has a single Down pipe from the gutters that empties via a gully into an inspection chamber (if that the right word, its the area covered by the manhole cover), then into the main under the road. This is actually our next door neighbours...

Just been collecting a few estimates for having replacement windows, ours are currently 25 years old, most are now suffering from misting and the upvc frames are the sort that have the glass fitted from the outside. So time to replace.I’m on a budget so need to be careful with money. We have...

Thanks for that. No, surprisingly number one is from a well established local company, number 2 certainly has branches through the SE and an 0800 number to a call centre!

Our ground floor living room, a typical 2 rooms knocked into one set-up, has a wide 3 pane / window bow at the front, the rear has French doors with side windows. All are pre2001 upvc that needs replacing because the glass is fitted from the outside and most panes are now either blown or showing...

I’m hoping to get away with just 25mm with 9.5 plasterboard tops. I know I can get 35mm insulating plasterboard. I’m wondering if there is a foam/polystyrene or other insulation material that performs better.

Part of my house is of solid brick construction the small sitting room gets very cold in winter so I’m thinking of insulating the outside walls with some kind of foam or polystyrene type product then plasterboard over. I need to keep the thickness of the insulation as thin as possible to avoid...

It’s funny, when I was younger, say up to the age of 20-25, at 6ft1”, i towered over most people I came in contact with. I was always pushed to the back row of any group photo-shoot and continuously asked if I could pass things down off a high shelf in the supermarket. Suspended signs in shops...

One for Corrie fans........ Not too little, not too much, by Chris Stamford 1964. In the soap he was an “act” managed by Dennis Tanner, he brought out a single, which ended up being for real. I can’t remember how well it did, but I bought it - I still have it on the Decca label!

With regards to incorrect completion, making things up, giving inappropriate answers etc.. can I just point out that in 100 years time - long after you and I are in the ground - your future ancestors will be able to access these census forms to help with researching their family tree (it’s a...

I was beginning to wonder what was going on Paul!

All radiators seem okay when bleeding

I can’t see any type of valve but no idea what’s under the bathroom floor - certain nothing I, or anyone else, has touched in 18-20 years

The cylinder is copper with a good thick insulated jacket. It is in the airing cupboard directly above the boiler - literally 2ft from top of boiler to base of cylinder

Well, that certainly seems the obvious action to take (turning it to 5), but I suppose my point it that in the years we’ve had this boiler there has never ever been a need to turn the temperature up beyond 3.5 before and the water has been piping hot. It just seems odd. iknow that at 18-20...

The hot water is definitely gravity, I remember the engineer telling me that when he was explaining that the hot water will always be on while the boiler is on (which it is). The boiler manual shows this to, explaining that there are 4 pipes coming out of the boiler, two for pumped, two for...

With the heating off, the hot water does carry on being heated The programmer is a Potterton EP2001. I’m not sure what a thermostatic shower or taps is, but our shower is just one that goes over the bath mixer taps and fed from the cylinder (hot). and mains (cold), all other taps are just plain...

I’ve an Ideal Classic 50 conventional boiler : pumped radiators, gravity feed to hot water cylinder. It was last serviced September last year. over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the hot water produced is nowhere near as hot as it was. Three weeks ago I would have to add cold...

Now this is odd...... Today I was about to tackle the flushing of this radiator, went into the bathroom and found the radiator was hot - all over, all evenly! obviously the threat of posting a notice on DIYnot was sufficient to jolt the radiator to stop messing me around, and cleared itself...