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Nope, sparky fitted the thermostat and he is an honest guy who I always use but has very limited knowledge, plumber I rang was making educated guesses. I'm an automotive engineer by trade, so between the three of us all we can confirm Is somethings not quite right! :(

Long story short, our house is 7 years old, we moved in a few months ago. As per old house, we wanted a wireless programmable thermostat instead of one stuck on the wall. It works fine in the sense hot water turns on/off as desired, heating comes on/off as desired. Last few days though, we...

An answer I feared and expected! Rest of the house hasn't fallen down, and we can't see any damp issues so fingers crossed. As I've always said though... Better two types of insulation held in by rubble, then no insulation at all! :wink:

Apologies, not so much as a real question - as there isn't much i can do about it - though there is 4 years of [useless] NHBC left if it is serious. I was just wondering what peoples thoughts were on why it would have Celotex at the top of the cavity, and some form of fibre wool at the...

Long story short, i am in the process of routing network/cat5 cables through the house for a home network. I looked into dropping them down the cavities of the house. From the loft down - drilling through thermalite block - i found a lot of debris within the 'air gap' cavity, and noticed it...

Thanks for your reply mate! I am hoping that the ''plasterboard wall'' downstairs is butted up against the plasterboard sheet used as the ceiling in the lounge, hence us not being able to see into the dot & dab cavity from the picture I posted. I am hoping that if i drill close enough to...

Cheers guys Based on research into dot & dab, and having seen inside the wall at the bottom (via plug aerial socket) I am pretty hopeful there wont be any joists in the lounge wall - just the plasterboard fixed to the Thermalite brick. I was wondering if anyone with experience in New build...

MODs, this was moved from Building. Seeing as the cables are out of the equation, and my issue is routing through the house/plasterboard, an dhow I do this would this not be better off in the building, or decorating, section?

I am in the process of routing cables internally, trying to get cables form the loft down into the lounge. I am dropping the cables down through a hollow upstairs wall, then I am HOPING to drill drill under the skirting board to route the cables from said internal wall into the underfloor of the...

Many thanks guys :)

That's the otherside of the wall: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4yo8cj0byqb9si1/IMG_20130511_112854.jpg and this is how the two sides are' joined' together: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zspexabb9qyefmt/IMG_20130511_112901.jpg # and from below looking up...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72120595/CameraZOOM-20130623111447503.jpg Is the above anything to worry about? The mortar shows it was built like that, and whilst very rough & crudely done, it has lasted 7 years (2006 built house) and seems to have been planned... The wood cross...

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I am hoping I am panicing for nothing, there are no joists or structural elements over it, and its only 4-5 planks screwed into place so with a drill access would only take 15mins to access! All depends on how funny they want to be over it, worse case scenario it will be a long drive one...

Hi guys, I am at serious panic stations currently. I am in the process of selling my house, and one of the enquiries is over the fact that 'no pipework has been built over'. Now the problem is I am a total prat, and I built my decking 18 months ago and built it over the freaking manhole cover...

Yeah, paint was all cleaned off soon after the photo! I will look for replacement tiles, but the way one of the 'original' tiles has been trimmed to fit means I will struggle to make it look as neat & tidy as the rest of the kitchen!

Hi guys, Last year I had my central heating system replaced and the warm air unit was torn out. The tiling was done around the unit, not up to it and I am now left with this corner that is bare concrete, compared to the tiled kitchen. Now, I don't have any of the tiles from when the...

The pipes are all sitting relaxed, the one coming up from the floor seems to be at an angle which is causing everything else to sit slightly off. When I replaced the p trap I tried wedging something under the corner but it felt like it was putting stress on other sections so I decided against...

Hahaha, last paragraph is oh so true! :D

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