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when peppering use a long 8-12mm masonry bit as your central hole and pepper around to just larger than diameter of pipe with similar sized but shoreter bit as suggested. any snots can be removed witha cold chisel and lump hammer. Exercise caution if using a core drill!!! M :shock: ake sure you...

Our old boiler "ist kapput!" :shock: (see below for details) The fella I usually rely on fer all things gas has recommended a "wolf" boiler (german company). I've never heard of em. Has anyone else? Can you recommend them?? They currently provide a 28Kw condensing combi with timer, flu...

oh dear what have i started :roll: The air brick is louvered and isnt on a weather wall (gable end near apex of roof) and I checked initially, to see if their was any rainwater ingress which thankfully there isnt. The house is a northern counties HA 10yr old semi. So, presumably it should be...

hmmmm!!!??? Upon closer investigation of our new domicile I found that the soil stack terminated with an an elbow offered flush up to an air brick in the external skin, in the loft space, and that the internal skin was just missing a block. Is this complient with current regs??? the house is 20...

some basins have teeny weeny holes. if the room is tiled you may want to put a generous gob of silicone on the back of the basin where it butts up against the wall. this will aid fixing in addition to the teeny weeny holes if these are the 1's that you have. When the silicone splurges out a...

draw off a jam jar of water from ch system (if unvented combi system... dont forget to top up pressure if required) and drop a steel nail in. draw off a jam jar of tap water and drop an steel nail in. if the nail rusts quiker in the tap water then you will have inhibitor in the ch system...

oh yeah, silly me, you can get a valve that incorporates a doc. but to change this you will still have to partially (if upstairs) or completely drain down the system (if downstairs) So you'll still have to add inhibitor. the old valve should be able to attach to a blank or bleed cap on the...

Is your ch system combi that is sealed/unvented or does it have a feed and expansion header tank vented???? If vented dont forget to turn off the stop cock or tie up the ballvalve in the header tank... or draining down will take an infinately long long time. turn valves off roll back...

andy.. do you mean that the spigot, that is ceramic outlet on the pan goes into an plastic pan connector, which in turn goes into the cast pipe??? if so the rubber seal on the pan connector is too narrow to form an effective seal on the cast iron pipe. The gungey bits to which you refer are...

cheers fitz! I'll phone tech help at g/worm and run it past them. very much appreciated

make sure that you ask for in-line valves! if you ask for just normal chrome valves you might get posh angled valves which are meant for radiators not ladder towel rads/warmers. nice metal/chrome finished sphere inline valves will probably set you back about £20.00 but really look the business

thanks for your comments ; much appreciated! The boiler came with the house purchase and if otherwise given the choice I suppose I would have opted for another location say kitchen and not bathroom. Its very noisy and dhw only gets hot if boiler is calling for heat to ch anyway!!! new...

I need to move the flu on a gloworm swiftlow through 90 degrees as the next door neighbour is building an extension and the present terminal location is located at the side of the house and needs to be moved to go through the adjacent wall at the back: so that neighbours extension can be built...

Thanks very, very much for your speedy reply... the link you provided is spot on for my requirements.

I would like to fit an outside security halogen floodlight at the rear of my property after 2 consecutive break in attempts on my detached garage over 2 consecutive nights. I would like to know if there are lights available where the pir function can be overided to a manual on/off function...

thank you for the advice softus, much appreciated.. and happy new year btw!!! :D

ive had a pimple for more than 20 yrs.. and its getting bigger... should i get rid of my tanning bed!?

ahem!! (clears throats and enunciates clearly) :wink: am cautious as im afraid the pilot in the middle may wander off course and cause the perimeter of the circular cutting bit to veer about a little and cause the skim coat to crack off. sods law dictates that the bezel of the light fitting...

hell fire!!! i'm dopey... if you maintain a 50mm cavity between the stone and the studwork.... then u can use standard plasterboard... The guy i installed the 1st fix and thereafter plumbing for was anally retentive and had local building regs in at every opportunity to check out and advise on...

4 got to mention... u might want to consider "kingspan" sheet insulation to wedge in between the timber studwork. It is usually 50mm thick and offers additional insulation.. has a double sided foil coated barrier. U have to maintain a 50mm cavity thoough... makes the room dimensions shrink a wee...