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Thanks all. This forum is brill .... Firstly, been spending the last hour getting it back up and running as suggested, quickly. All is well now with the hot water, connections redone with new wagos (luckily I have plenty of those in the garage), and I've drilled a couple of drainage holes. The...

Thank you. The original installers were indeed poor beyond belief. So many issues, but that is another story. To fix properly I then need to adjust the top conduit to enter the junction box on the horizontal? Even with the drainage hole the water will still drip along the cables entering the...

Morning all, We have an ASHP (with HW cylinder) and over the last day or so the hot water hasn't been working properly, hence this being slightly urgent. On our control display the temp reading was all over the place so I immediately suspected a wiring issue with the temp sensor that runs from...

Thank you- I will do some googling.

Hi all, I have a soil pipe in our kitchen that has a connection for an old water softener that we have disposed of and I need to repair/reseal the hole. As per the photo, the pipe that was inserted and solvent welded into the boss (which itself is also solvent welded) broke off- with minimal...

When I've done ours I've used the hardiebacker tape and then trowelled on some tile adhesive over the joints as you say. I've not used the Mapei one. I tried the Everbuild kit which I thought was rubbish. I can certainly recommend this one though and it comes with two corner pieces...

Hi again all, I have now checked and there is a lintel, so all good there. I've ordered my replacement door which has arrived (solid hardwood door and frame). The frame size is pretty much dead on to the aperture, giving a little wiggle room obviously. I am reasonably happy (I think) with what...

Thanks all- some useful suggestions. One of those ones I guess where a number of options will work. That super glass option looks interesting.

Yeah I was thinking rockwool but it just falls apart a bit when manipulated I thought? I've generally used it for partition walls where I can just cut and slot it into a flat space.... I've attached a photo of outside which hopefully helps explain. To be honest the eaves insulation arrangement...

Ok thanks. What would be benefit of foil backed plasterboard be? I was going to potentially use acoustic boards to combat a bit of noise transfer upstairs….

Hi all, I'm stripping out/refurbing my kitchen at the moment, and above the ceiling I have the eaves (chalet bungalow style property). The existing insulation was the old dense loft roll that I needed to take out, or at least some of it, as there was so much builders rubble/rubbish in it. Top...

Not heard of that company before. Price wise as you say all depends on the existing radiator specs. Difficult to predict really. Ours was 5.5k with 5 rad changes and a 12kW clivet, which felt like quite a lot to be honest but a lot of the quotes were broadly similar in terms of labour. If you...

But why would anyone write off 7.5k? Plenty of independents are mcs registered, and who won’t just quote a 7kw or 10kw vaillant as standard. Crazy imo to have a large storage battery as well and not at least get a bespoke quote. Plus low heat losses as well and the ashp can modulate to lower...

Wow ok. HP ready cylinder, battery, solar….and you still want to put a boiler in? We already had the cylinder installed and it just wouldn’t compute with the likes of octopus who would give us a standard price. There are some decent cheaper ashps as well….the vaillant quotes were quite...

It may be a bit cheaper but I can't imagine by much, by the time you've factored in the cylinder install cost as well? Octopus weren't the cheapest for us and their prices have gone up quite a lot recently.

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Thermostatic showers will have an adjustment spindle behind the handle to alter the hot/cold balance. Your hot water tap will be directly fed from the HW supply but your shower will be blended with cold. It might be therefore that your HW supply temp is slightly lower and this is causing the...

I'd imagine it will be leaking through where your shower screen attaches to the wall. Water will getting in behind it and the sealant at the bottom where it meets the tray will be compromised. A lot of showers seem to leak in this area. Personally speaking (as a DIY'er) this is something I...

Not 100% following what you mean but generally 12mm hardiebacker is used for walls and you'd just remove the plasterboard and replace it with the hardie. I have used 6mm hardie before to get the shower niche the right dimensions that I needed and just used extra noggins and halved the spacing...

Thanks- I'll do some investigating on the other side as suggested.