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Cheers thanks very much

Oldbutnotdead: I also clean and flush the header. The reason I do this each year is actually because five years ago we had a very bad instance of biological slime in the system, which took ages to get rid of and a small fortune in specialist antibacterial cleaner. the hot water is ok, still...

I have an older CH system whereby the radiators are pumped and hot what is gravity fed - including the small bathroom radiator (which is on the hot water circuit & and sited next to airing cupboard). Recently this gravity fed radiator has been getting cold at the bottom and part-way up the...

Yeah, stack is staying. All the render appears crumbling when looked at through binoculars. The roof, flashing everything else appears OK, it’s just one of those awkward re-rendering jobs.

A large-ish lump of render appeared on my drive this morning, this has crumbled away from my chimney stack. As I don’t have a head for heights, I need to get someone in but who? General builder, roofer, plasterer? I don’t know which would be best suited to the work. please advise

I think you’re missing the OP’s point, that the official line is that to destroy the covig-19 virus you have to have a hand gel containing alcohol, as alcohol is the only thing known to kill it. On that basis, and following the report that the virus first attacks the throat, then surely alcohol...

actually that is a load of *******s and she should tell her doctor that, he has no restrictions whatsoever on how many items he can prescribe, as long as he was able to justify it - i.e. the patient will need that medication for 2 months. He may be unwilling if it’s for sleeping tablets or items...

Ha ha 1st April! That’s good, and as you say who knows, perhaps using such logic would reduce the chance of infection. Doctors, research scientists etc always skirt around the simple things, rather than use logic. At the end of the day, when there is no cure whatsoever, just take the “magic”...

I am diabetic and just got my order for insulin and other meds a need, no problems. I think it is probably a matter of which chemist you use. In normal times, I swapped one chemist for the one I now use because they always took two or more visits for me to be able to get my full prescription...

Bring back the 10 Bob note, and the old white fiver! You’d notice the difference in them, I don’t think the do a wallet big enough for the white fiver

Ok guys thanks for all your input. I will try the electronic starter, as recommended, and see how I go

can I use an electronic starter to replace the old ‘choke’ type? My light is quite old and is a single tube about 25-30mm diameter

I assume so, it was the same as the one I took out. As with most things these days when the last one was replaced way back when, I could only buy a replacement pack of two! So, I was determined to keep the second one rather than do what they’ll hope you’ll do - lose it so have to buy another...

We have a 5ft flourescent light in our kitchen, about a month ago the light wouldn’t turn on, just a very dim glow each end of the tube. I changed the starter first, simply because I had one to hand, that didn’t do the job so I purchased a new tube which did work but was still a little slow at...

Thanks for that, we don’t cook anything too stinky! So smell not really an issue, although I do go overboard with air freshener after cooking fish! I wasn’t sure if the nanny-state had something to say about positioning of vents

we are thinking about installing a cooker hood to help with condensation and cooking smells in our small galley kitchen. Our cooker stands in front of a boxed section, which is 620mm wide that hides the mains-in water pipe, gas pipe and higher up the wall, the pipes in and out of the central...

Yeah, I went to a builders merchants today and asked about underlay, they also asked if I had a leak because, they said, underlay isn’t for waterproofing, it is basically draft-proofing! And condensation reducing. Anyway, he had the suggestion that I buy a large sheet of polystyrene and cut it...

Just looked at a builders merchant website and the tiles look more closely like the Redland plain concrete tile.

Roof shows no sign of leaking, come to think of it, not sure if it’s membrane or felt, it’s old and where it’s torn it has the appearance of a black paper, maybe a pitch paper?? With the possibility of some kind of woven thin thread - couldn’t be certain of that (I need to put a light up...

just been up in the loft, house is a 1920’s semi, and noticed that the existing membrane between the tiles and roof joist (rafters) is worn and torn in several places, some quite badly. Is there anything I can do besides have the tiles off the roof and relay the whole roof? - I don’t have a big...