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I have turned heating and hot water on separately. I could not here anything from the valve or actuator when the CH came on, when the hot water came on I heard a noise as if with was reacting to something but the metal bit at the back of the valve didn't move at all on both occasions (not sure...

So I have had a look today and the valve is a Honeywell 3 port valve. There is a metal bit at the back that goes from manual to auto I have had a look at that and switches from manual to auto and it does not move on it's own feely back to auto which I believe it should do. Does this mean a new...

Would I need to get a new valve?

It is a conventional boiler with a hot water tank. I believe I just have the one valve

I have noticed that over the past month or two that my hot water is not lasting as long. I will run a very small bath for the children and have two showers and at the end of the first shower the water will go cold. In addition to this over this time I have also noticed that the heating also is...

Yes all interior doors. So to confirm it will need Zinsser BIN, plus undercoat, then top coat?

I have these dark wood doors in my house which I would like to paint white and keep the metal bits on the door black. My question is what paint do you think would be best to do this? I know it will take a few coats and was thinking of putting Zinsser 123 on and a satin white on top of this but...

@cdbe any idea how I go about stripping it all back to brick?

So is the cementous tanking I have done known as a render system and so it be better to get something like Synthaprufe instead? Now the tanking has failed is there a way that I can go about getting this off to then apply something like Synthaprufe? Going back to @mikeey84 comment the garage...

Thanks. It is pretty modern and actually now that you mention it the wall that doesn't have decking is the one the tanking has stuck to and doesn't appear to be failing whereas the two walls with the decking next to it are the ones where it is still wet and tanking appears to be failing. Do you...

I've just had a look again under the decking where the garage meets and taken a couple of pictures. Does that look like it would be soil touching the wall? If so it would need a trench digging all the way round. So really it should have been built 2 bricks thick to begin with?

Thanks for the replies. Yes it is a solid wall into the soil. About 3/4 of the wall is in the soil and the remaining 1/4 of the wall is above ground. Would any ventilation help solve this if was to put in air bricks in the wall that was above ground?

I have a garage that is built into the earth on 3 sides, ever since I have moved into my house I have had issues with damp and mold in the garage and so I decided to try tanking to prevent water ingress through the walls. I used Febtank Tanking Slurry and this appears to have dried well on 1...

Thanks for the reply. Once cleaned do you think there would be any harm using the concrete sealer and paint that I mentioned above on the floor?

I have a garage which is attached to the main house, this is being used as a utility room/storage area. Recently I noticed hard black ball shapes coming from the carpet, I looked into this and formed the opinion this was caused because of damp. I pulled up the thin carpet tiles and noticed that...