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Floor plan and Photo of the current floor: Indeed - the old WC (screed area) has a bitchumen layer between the old quarry tiles and the screed. There is an old slate DPC on the hearth. There is no evidence of any historic rising damp thankfully around the hearth. The Chimney breast does...

We have recently enlarged our kitchen space by knocking through to an old outside WC/coal cupboard. The 'old' kitchen floor is floorboards (1 1/2" T&G board). The 'New' part of the kitchen is concrete screed. There is also an old cement hearth. Mrs P would like a new tiled floor to the kitchen...

Hi All, Apologies in advance that this is a topic that's already been discussed to death, but just wanted to get my logic double checked if possible.. We have a 3 storey, 12 radiator house with a Telford Tempest unvented cylinder and Worcester Bosch boiler. The Radiator circuit is around 50%...

We've lived in our current home for just over 2 months and we discovered some odd behaviour for the first time this morning with the cold water in the upstairs bathroom. Consequenly, I'm not sure if this is something that's just started happening (most likely I think) or if it's been there since...

Our shower pump woes have gotten worse! There's absolutely no hot through the shower at all now. Few things I've investigated / discovered: 1. If the shower is powere off, there's plenty of hot water at the shower. 2. Our HW system has a combined feed/vent pipe to the hot water cylinder...

It's an Ideal Standard E Type, I believe a RS 60N. I feel compelled to go and check the cold water cistern now, but does the same principle apply to the CH side of the circuit.. can a combined vent/feed be used?

Aha! The 'T' into the hot water cylinder is definitely 22mm. When you say that can act as both a vent and a feed, does that mean there should still be an open vent, or is the 22mm pipe running into the bottom of the F&E tank sufficient? Probably a silly question, but how could I tell if the...

Having recently moved house, the pump on the central heating packed up over the weekend, so this prompted me to try and understand our inherited central heating/hot water system better. It looks to be a C-Plan set up to me, with a pump on the central heating circuit and a separate...

Hi, We've recently moved house and the new place has a pumped shower. It's always been noisy and never offered a great deal of pressure, but had some odd behaviour this morning.. 1. Pump always starts with a reasonable pressure then audiably begins to whine and the pressure drops a little...

Hi, We had a rusty towel rail in the bathroom, that would only ever get hot at the bottom. Assuming it must be clogged through, I replaced it on the weekend, to find the same problem with a brand new one. It's a 1.5M ladder rail, but only the bottom 4 rungs would get hot. Having bled the...

A previous inhabitant of our home has rendered over the front door frame. Now, after years of the door slamming, the hairline crack in the render has actually lead to a chunk falling off.. What's the best / easiest way to fix this? Have never attempted any rendering or anything like this...

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