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Thanks guys. Toolstation looks the way to go. My only issue is that the fan outlet is big (250mm) so that limits my choice it seems.

Don't know where to post this so will try here! I have been looking into extraction rates for fitting a powerful through the wall extractor fan for a utility room. Having looked at airflow rates and identified a "industrial" fan as the way to go it occured to me that the external grille might...

Spectacularly unhelpful but thanks for taking the time to reply.

OP here resurrecting this thread as I have now moved to the house and can have a good look at the chimney. The previous owners took the wood burner with them so I can see straight up inside the chimney: a couple of meters up the square chimney has a "plate" with a round flue hole. As this is so...

Each to their own of course but, for me, the interaction with an open fire is part of the enjoyment:poking, turning the logs, selecting just the right log to go on... simple pleasures!

I have no idea what you mean: backwards? A woodburner, in my experience, puts out minimal heat, gets a horribly discoloured glass door, and crucially, makes no crackling sounds! I put them in the same bracket as gel fires, fake coal gas fires etc: a false pretense of a real fire. What is the...

I think I have answered my own questions on removing the flu - it will be fixed at the top and bottom, and may have vermiculite insulation poured in around it from the top. Yukky, sounds like a job for a pro...

Thanks, makes sense. Now, how difficult is it going to be to get the flu out? (How long's a piece of string, I know) I am guessing that they are fixed in some way to the chimney, and possibly "back-filled" (if that is the right expression - I mean the gap between the outside of the flu and the...

Lots of advice on doing the opposite, but nothing on what I want to do! Moving to house that has wood burner, I want to rip it out and restore open fire. Questions: Can I leave the liner/flu in place - will an open fire work with a chimney flu/liner? If so is the liner likely to be attached...

Bump. Anyone? I can now see water literally gushing out of the evaporator (condensor?) fins. This can't be good! Video clip here:

Amcor SF10000E approx 3 years old and been working brilliantly for that time. It gets rid of water via the air exhaust hose, and my understanding of it having a (small) reservoir in the base is for only when there is excessive humidity. That reservoir has two electrical contacts in it that, I...

Interesting, didn't know about hydrogen. Boiler only installed 2 years ago and system drained and inhibitor added then. I understand the principle that if I let gas (air/hydrogen) out of the system then I have to replace it with water, but I am mostly puzzled as to why once I have bled all the...

Pressurised CH system and I find that I need to bleed a fairly considerable amount of air from the towel rail (highest point) at least once a month. Each time I do that I then open the water inlets to put a bit more water in the system. Today I bled the air and noticed that there was very...

Sorry, should have explained. Built-in double oven, in house when we moved in. Standard round 13a cable.

I am surprised that it is wired that way (there is no 30a cooker circuit in the kitchen/breaker box, which I expected there to be). Bottom line is that it works OK with both ovens on some of the time but other times (fairly regularly) blows the 13a fuse in the plug. The plug top is so hot it is...

Not a silly question! But, no it is pretty level. When I say "bottom of the door" I mean actually on the door about 3 inches up from the bottom of it, where the door shapes in. With it closed (i.e. vertical) this forms a sloping "shelf" and that is where the food sits. Hard to describe, sorry!

Thanks foxhole. So another explanation for milky glasses! I have tried every wash cycle/temp (but then maybe I had already "milked" the glasses). I do clean the filter regularly but the food gunk is mostly sitting at the bottom of the door after every wash, nowhere near the "floorpan" (for...

Thanks for the reply. I will try a dishwasher cleaner, as it could probably do with it by now, but the problem has been there since day one. Lots of Internet stories suggests that the "milky glass" thing is common, but, as you say, no clear answer. Suggestions are that it is limescale and can...

Sorry for the long post! Whirlpool dishwasher ADG 8410 FD Not even a year old and has been rubbish from day one! I cannot get this to clean glasses at all well. They ALWAYS come out misted/white filmy, OFTEN they come out with sand-like deposits on them. I use Finish Quantum tablets but have...

No need for the flaming folks, it is not helpful. I will happily pay to get my boiler serviced every year once it is out of warranty. I just expect it to not need servicing during the first two years of it's life - possibly longer. The point is that I would expect a manufacturer to guarantee...