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Thanks, Ill take the pump back. Is there a way to diagnose the diverter valve other than running the hot water - which works fine. Ill run the existing pump out of the system tonight and see if it runs ok. If it does I won't bother replacing it.

Sorry I got the pumps wrong, Pump is UPR15-70. New is UPS0-15-60 (corrected on orig post) Boiler - Remeha 35c. About a meter from the boiler on the CH flow is a Honeywell 2 port actuator valve that isolates the rads from the extensions UFH. Ive manually moved this valve which makes no...

Whats wrong with the pad stones?

Came back off holiday and my hot water works fine but heating doesn't. Heating pipe gets red hot and after a few hours the first rad gets warm. Possibly by convection/conduction. So I suspected the pump which a recall was making some odd clicking noises before I went away. Ive listened to the...

So you can see where the water appears. I can look up between the steels and see the DPC material. I will have to take a better picture of the flashing but you can see the edge of it in IMG_2846.jpeg.

To clarify, I believe the 'tray' is black DPC that and can see. The flashing for the flat roof is cemented into the same course as this. When it rains I don't have issues, when its windy and raining I get the leak. Should the flashing be one course higher to prevent driving rain tracking in...

Hello Bonni, thanks for the response. The tray you speak of is above this DPC that I can see by looking up the cavity. I dont know if the tray extends the full length of the extension. To be honest ive had the same issue with some of the windows where water fills the DPC thats in the cement...

Hi All, I have a single story extension on the side of my house. The extension is constructed using a flat roof covered in that new rubber stuff. The existing house is constructed from block work and Yorkshire stone. The extension is on the gable end of the house and is subject to a lot of...

Hi john. Yes it is

Hi. I have a door casing to fit into some stud work. The stud work is 4x2 (38x89) the door case is slightly deeper 108mm so I have about 9.5mm proud either side of the Studwork. Is this correct or should it be fit flush one side ?

id read that the foil on Kingspan is a vapour barrier... might be anecdotal.

My next project is doing the stud work internal walls in my new build. I'm thinking of using 3x2 or 4x2 and filling the cavity with Celotex. Couple of questions. The building is of blockwork cavity construction with celotex insulation within the blockwork cavity. Internal partitions; 1...

Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated

Im removing a wall as part of my extension in my stone built house. The walls are about 500mm thick and rubble filled and is the old external wall. On the outside there is no 1st floor on the inside there is a bedroom/bathroom above. Ive had structural calcs done for the steel etc. However I...

@cbde. Yeh thats my prob. the dig at the beginning. The room is only 5x4m there was no insulation on the floor I dug out, just a tiled slab on dirt. it got really cold. I figured blocking the loss of the heat to ground and the cold coming back up would be much better than it was. Ive also...

Ah didnt realise i could do the insulation below the conc slab. What could i sit this on? just hardcore. I thought i would have to do from the bottom up; hardcore sand binder visqueen concrete insulation visqueen screed floor finish are you saying i can do; hardcore insulation (celotex)...

I can keep going down, its just labour intensive. I was going to go with the 100mm kingspan i have left over from another job. So that sat on a visqueen sheet with a screed slab (approx 120mm) on top. Ill have to go deeper if i need a slab on dirt.

My kitchen floor has always been about 6" higher than the rest of the ground floor. Its always annoyed me so ive taken the kitchen out and dug it up. Ive removed about two tile layers between cement screeds so presumably its just been added to over the years. Ive got down to soil now which is...

anyone?

Just coming back to this. Im worried about knocking out the inner leave as it appears to support the folding doors via metal brackets (see pic). Ive held of doing anything yet as with the recent rain the DPC membrane filled up with about a washing up bowls worth of water. I checked with the...