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Hi, We are about to have the warm air heating system replaced with a brand new wet system and I wondered if somebody might be able to answer a couple of questions please. We have a typical style 4 bed detached 70’s house with big windows and concrete downstairs floors. We have one bathroom, a...

Hi. Thank you very much for the information. Could I ask if you know if these are generally removable without destroying the wall, or is it best just to live with them. thanks again.

Hi, my daughter recently moved to a new home and has started decorating. Upon removing the wallpaper in the lounge, she found what I think are possibly old fixings in the wall. This is a timber frame house which I am guessing has plasterboard clad walls. I am used to the older brick wall and...

I wonder if somebody could help me please. I purchased some super fresco paintable wallpaper from B&Q along with some Dulux Brilliant White Silik Emulsion paint. I last used this type of paper and paint around 10 years ago, I put the paper on the wall, painted it with silk emulsion, and it was...

Thanks for the recommendation of toupret. Can you just put this straight in or should you cover the cable with something first to shield it? Thanks

We called an electrician because we could hear cracking (a long time ago now) and he said the cable had broken where it enters the box so he did a repair and left it like that.

Hi, I wonder if somebody could help me please. We have just removed the wallpaper from a room with the intention of painting it and found a bricked up hole above the door. It looks like somebody has just used cement but we need to get this smooth so that we can paint the room. Is there a product...

Hi, an electrician chiselled out the wall to fix the cable running to a light switch but never came back to fill in the hole. I wonder of somebody could please tell me how this should be repaired as we now want to decorate and paint the wall. Is there a specific product that electricians use to...

Hi, I would be really grateful for some advice please. My daughter has just purchased a timber framed house and wants to put some boards down in the loft. I have had a look and it looks like the the beams are part of the triangular roof timbers and are are covered in some eighteen inches of...

Would really appreciate some advice please. My mother has had quotes to replace her boiler, one from British Gas and the other from an independent. This is a small end of terrace 2 up 2 down with 2 radiators downstairs and 3 radiators upstairs. The independent has quoted Valiant EcoTEC Plus...

Hi, I had assumed that it was the case seal but just checked and the engineer said that it was the seal around the glass that you look through to see the pilot light. She (the engineer) showed my mother that it was not working by putting a match by the glass. Apparently the flame on the match...

Thanks for the information. I will contact Baxi spares when they open again next week. The seals appear to be available as mentioned (if this is the seal that BG is referring to). Could I also ask, is it normal for the thin wire (thermocouple?) to be glowing orange? Thanks to all for your help.

Hi, Would really appreciate some advice please...Boiler: Thorn Apollo 15/30B My mother called BG in yesterday because she could see a bright orange glow above the usual blue pilot light. It looked like a thin piece of metal sticking in to the flame that was very hot and glowing orange. BG...

Found the hob to be causing the problem. The live connection looked a little black on the copper so disconnected all wires, cleaned them up and reconnected. Turned everything on and all working fine. Is it possible that a bad connection could have been causing the RCD to trip? Or maybe it is...

Thanks Iggifer.

Hi, last night the RCD started tripping and I found that it was due to the main cooker switch (the big red switch with the mains socket on the side). If I leave the cooker switch off then the RCD resets and is happy. Even with the MCB turned off, the RCD still trips when the big red switch...

I really would appreciate some advice. My daughter has just moved to a new home and we have removed the old fire surround and gas fire (gas supply capped off by professional heating engineer). The flue is about the size of a brick and appears to run up the inside of the wall to vent in the roof...

Hi, I am sorry if this has been asked before but I am being told different things and really would appreciate some advice. My daughter has purchased a home which is dry lined. We have removed the wallpaper from two of the rooms, first removing the paper and then going back over again to remove...

Hi, I have a J&S warm air heating system with Eljan / Prismatic for the hot water. Over the past few weeks I have noticed a small amount of water coming from the outside overflow so I went to the loft to investigate. There is a pipe that runs up over the top of the tank so that any water coming...

Thanks for all the replies and info. I have now spoken to the surveyor who carried out the survey and he advised that this is not a major issue but one which had to be noted. He advised to get a local builder to sort it out after the house purchase is complete and suggested it would cost...