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Looks to me like the pointing is almost completely missing from behind the hopper. If this wall is SW facing and gets hit a lot by rain just normal rain water running down the walls could get in through there. I had a similar problem in my house 2 winters ago when we had all that wet windy...

I am not a qualified electrician, however if your supplementary bonding is up to scratch (i.e. your water pipes are bonded to the electrical earth at your incoming supply), and you have all copper pipework then a quick way to test without requiring you to remove the cover of the CU is to measure...

Think you ought to get into your loft and see if your party wall is hollow as you suspect. Despite what ^woody^ said (which is no doubt correct), some of the insulation co's don't know their arse from their elbow... my bet is it's a formality to allow them to insulate over the front and rear...

Interestingly this also was not done on ours. The building control inspector pulled them up on it and had them silicone it and also filet with mortar

@Damnboy yes that photo shows what I meant with it sticking out 100mm proud of your side. Admittedly that is a particularly ugly example as it's on a terrace and there are no downpipes which often soften the step. Plus they have a trim at the top because there isn't enough roof overhang, which...

I had EWI a while ago and they installed the over sills tilted toward the window frame so water pools up against the window. If you can, check that the top trim is angled appropriately (i.e. so the water falls away from the wall), and that it's suitably sealed between the wall and the trim...

I would speak to your neighbour or the insulation co to get more details, as they'll probably only overlap a tiny bit of the party wall on the outside of the building. I.e, with EWI (External) they are not insulating their side of the party wall but on the front and rear elevations the EWI will...

TTC, thanks. Obvious indeed... am proceeding through that route but not having much luck so far. They sent me the fitter's guide but it does not document the functions of all the pins (see red in the image). It only documents all their wireless controllers, which are no good as I want to hook...

HI I have a SWS Secueroglide roller garage door. It has a control unit that has a couple of wireless fobs for opening/closing, and the control unit can support a tonne of other methods of control (GSM, keypad, etc). Inside the control unit there are 23 terminal block connectors, and I reckon...

++ Although at least colinfurze does his stuff in a workshop with a concrete floor and not in his loft made of WOOD and CARPET!!

BAS: LOL - I have ensured that everything can still be used even if the automation part breaks/is removed. theSouth: thanks for the steer... needed a new work avoidance technique now I've watched all of colinfurze's pulsejets!

I was also looking at evohome.. not got round to that yet. Have to say that using the rfxcom433 and domoticz on a raspberry pi is working out really well. And it's very cheap. The lightwaverf stuff is a bit limited on its own (e.g. you can only pair things directly to each other), but adding...

I had similar requirements to you, but solved it in a different way. I got some brushed ali up/down lighters from Screwfix (around £20 ea). They have been out in the elements for about 18 months now and no sign of rust. No dusk/dawn sensor of course, so I replaced the internal light switch...

Yeah.. or 'Shark soup'. In any case my advice would be to press hard now to get it to a standard that you're happy with and have them explain exactly how they plan to make it watertight. It is much easier to fix it now than when it's rendered. I'll bet their plan is to fill it with Silicon...

I had EWI done last year. They did it the same, but they slotted in additional bits of trim under the two longer pieces to join them up. Building control made them fill the gap behind with mortar (on my house it meets the roof tiles). It's not ideal, they certainly do whatever they like as long...

On the face of it yes. But there's more to it than that. The house needed re-rendering in any case (we had water coming through one wall in last year's wet winter). So the net payback is probably quite a bit shorter. And it's a lot more cosy than it was prior to EWI. Seriously, before we had...

I had EWI installed on my 4 bed detached last spring. The total cost was just under £20k. We paid about £13k of that. Our 'system' was provided by Alumasc and consisted of Kingspan Phenolic boards 60mm, reinforcing mesh scrimmed on top with adhesive, then a grey-coloured render 3-5mm thick...

That is shocking! I had similar experiences of rainwater incompetence when I had my house cladded last year. I wonder if it was the same company. Do you know which company installed it?

Thanks for the replies so far folks. Andy - even though I'm sure the Fernox white stuff would work fine, I am still curious what it was they used. It's kind of a light yellow grease that seems to have stiffened up over time. Thanks

Hi all, Quick Q, have googled a bit, not turned up any definitive answers. I had some new rads installed a couple of years ago, and had to remove one of them earlier this year to decorate. On the threaded connections there was some yellow looking gunk that has a very noticeable smell...