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Hi All Bought a bungalow and had a builder redo the lounge with panels and noticed rising damp on the right side of the chimney breast also damaging the bottom of the wall panels on the right side of chimney breast. Any ideas what might be causing it ? or know anyone near Eastbourne with good...

Hi All I need to repaint the bathroom ceiling as it had developed what appears to be mould spots. I just washed to understaffed the correct steps. Would it be 1. Clean ceiling with bleach to kill the mould, what's best to use? 2. Lightly sand the ceiling, what grade paper? 3. Repaint...

I went to view a house which is 100 years old semi detached house but has an internal crack in the corner of the dining room and also the bedroom directly above. I have attached pictures, just wondering if anyone has experience of this and has any idea of costs to rectify this and likely...

Hi All The bathroom tiles next to the bathroom door have come up a bit making the door scrape when opening and closing. Just one tile mainly 7mm or so but the other 2 have come up also very slightly be couple of mm. I sanded the door down to allow it to glide over which it did for a day but...

Hi All Our single oven which is hardwired has died. The wiring goes to a cooker socket as shown in attached pic chased in through the wall from underneath. New oven and I think the majority on the market come with plugs, I think only a couple of budget options like kenwood at currys might...

Hi All The screen has gone blank on our honeywell digital thermostat (pic attached), I've changed the batteries but nothing. Any ideas what it could be and if a replacement is required is it easy to replace? Many Thanks

Hi All I have an oil radiator which was working fine no issues yesterday, today I plug it in and it causes a power cut in the house. It seems to go straight through, I would of expected it to blow the 13 amp fuse in the plug but it causes a power cut to everything in the house not just...

Hi All I have a newer style Ideal Standard Toilet where the water is leaking into the pan. Sometimes the water trickles down quite a bit, sometimes it drips and sometime I struggle to see if it dripping. Seems to change after each flush. Leaks more often than not. Being on a water meter it...

I've noticed throughout the year that some days the water from our unvented cylinder is piping hot when we shower hence mix with cold, some days it is just warmish to the point we have to turn the shower setting to hot only (not a great shower feeling). Can anyone help me understand why this...

I don't seem to have a red gate cog next to the cylinder upstairs to isolate the hot water and change the hot water tap. I have a grey flexi pipe though with 2 black flaps, if I turn one of the flaps down will it stop the cold water refilling the cylinder and allow the cylinder to naturally...

Hi All I have a white expansion vessel above my unvented hot water cylinder which is reading 1.5 bar I want to increase the pressure to the recommended 3 bar is it as simple as attaching a foot pump to the schrader valve and pumping it up to 3 bar or is there any additional steps. Water is...

Could this be normal condensation ? Has happened before over winter and dried up ... Just seems quite a bit. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ES8jXx5QHxa1R5a29FcHYxMW8/view?usp=docslist_api https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ES8jXx5QHxVlIySDVwTUo1S1U/view?usp=docslist_api

Is it worth replacing a double radiator with a single one with the same dimensions ? The current double radiator in the spare bedroom is very powerful and makes the room stuffy. The bedroom will be used by my little girl after winter and I was thinking of replacing it with a single...

Hi I have a conventional boiler with an unvented cylinder (Megaflo type), the timings are consistent every day and the dial is always set to 4 on the cylinder thermostat. However the temperature of the hot water tends to fluctuate, some days it will just be warm and then the next few days...

Mod please delete, the head contractor has been quite decent and is rectifying the work. Happy days .... glad it will be completed properly. Case of workers doing what they wanted without communicating with the boss.

Hi All For the last 3 days the hot water is just warm not piping hot like it used to be, we shower with the temperature control completely to the max and still just warmish water comes out. Any ideas what could be wrong ? System was put in 3 years ago with a pressurised cylinder (Elson...

Hi All Was looking to install a new exposed mixer bar shower and wanted to draw on your experience of which brand is better in reliability & quality Hudson Reed vs Mira vs Grohe shower ? Any advice ? Hudson Reed I was told use metal parts/inserts and the majority plastic ? Thanks...

I have a stud wall which appears to have been built straight onto the timber floorboards and caused them to dip/bow causing a slope on the floor of the bathroom next to it. There is no wall directly underneath downstairs and I believe the joists run in parallel to the wall. Some movement a...

I was thinking of fitting a non electric power shower and was wondering are they very noisy ? if you take the letter L as bathroom walls the long line will be a bedroom wall and the short line where the shower will be fitted is a corridor wall will it disturb the people sleeping in the adjacent...

Looking at Megflow sylinder, is it better to have External or Internal Expansion and is there a way to fit it so it is better for a water meter ? Thanks All