Search results

the beam underneath is a wood beam - situated between two brick walls. by the looks of it the house was extended and this is the result

Are these joists supported correctly? You cant quite see in the pictures but underneath where the two joists overlap is another joist going in the horizontal direction (direction of pipes) and the cut ends rest on it

By the way, Ive been doing some research on the flow rate thing - anyone have any experience with one of these bad boys? https://www.screwfix.com/p/salamander-pumps-homeboost-hb-booster-mains-water-boosting-pump-1-6bar/75286 My water pressure is 10l/min and 1.1 bar.. so wondering if this will...

yep - although that's why they spend £millions on design. You'd be surprised at some of the modern internal boiler designs. A lot going on and very accessible in compact boxes. One of the reasons installers dont like WB is because they are lacking in the design department - they focus more on...

Pros of combi: convenient for medium to large families having showers in sequence hot water on demand minimal space piping is simple and clean easier to keep system and water clean everything that can go wrong is in one place (easier to work on) If you look after it (regular servicing / clean...

spoke to the water company and they wont subsidise anything as it's all after the stopcock. To throw a further spanner in the works between my boundary and the stopcock there is someone else's land (drive + garden) so the existing pipework likely goes underneath there and if I wanted to replace...

I'll give them a call and ask them.. cant find anything on their website about it

fook me! this is gonna get expensive :cry: as a safety precaution I'm guessing if no one drinks the water we should be alright

Having some fun and games trying to figure out what type of pipe supplies the property with water. Filling in a form to get a new water connection - and they want to know where I want the new stop cock fitted. I'm trying to figure out where the existing pipework on my side of the fence is before...

yes, if I remember correctly he did the pressure test as the kitchen tap was fully on.

Thanks @muggles - just been speaking to the water board and they can give me a new water connection where the stop cock is literally just outside my garden. There's a public path that runs down the side of my house and they can use that (at a cost of course!). This process will take several...

OK so just to re-iterate - bought an old house. Anyway I contacted the water provider to locate the stop cock.. they didnt know where it was so sent someone out. The external stop cock is located about 20 metres away from the garden. So the water supply runs beneath someone else's private land...

no nothing in the survey - they only mentioned a damp problem

survey didnt say anything about it and I didn't notice it on my one visit! - but Ive taken the crack question to the builders forum https://www.diynot.com/diy/posts/4984308/

Can I just push the sleeve back a little bit myself so it comes out of the other side? and can I unseal/seal it myself? - or is all this RGI territory? Btw can you tell if the sleeve is the correct type? what material should it be?

+1 good question

property's about 130 years old Ive owned it a few weeks Internally no indications of crack the crack starts at the gas pipe which is about a quarter of the way across and finishes at about a third of the way across

Do I need to be worried about this crack in the wall? starts at where the gas pipe goes into the wall and goes upwards

is this gas pipe installed to current standards? I can see a sleeve on the inside wall but it's not visible from the outside. Is this acceptable?

got a quote finally - £500 to replace the CU and test although I forgot to ask if that includes the CU + trip switches Bit pricey - so I'm gonne leave the leccy stuff till the heating system's been sorted and see how much money I have left