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Right I'm going for a Henry - seems like a better way of spending my money than handing over £80 and not getting anything back...especially if the hire ones will clog too...and there will be more dust so it will come in handy later... Maybe even one of the wet & dry ones...Charles ...more...

Looking at hiring one that was £80 -so not far off a henry...just wondering if the good hire ones can cope with plaster dust or do they clog up as well? Would the Henry bags cope with the plaster dust ...my DIY vac is an old domestic one with a cloth bag -(has coped in the past with cleaning...

Tidying up mess from a rewire in empty house...plaster dust and bits of rubble from chasing out ..... After struggling with dust blocking vacuum even after a brush up have now resorted to a going over with brush and dustpan ...then using a vacuum attached to a water filled 'dust trap' (I made...

I made plasterboard boxes for the 'normal' downlighters in current house...mainly cause I had lots of plasterboard off cuts...plant pots seem an easier option Just thought because these were LED and 'special' and what electrician said I didn't need to.... oh well you live and learn ...

And I meant to say my plan is compression (and preferably foam) fit then when in place either fix thin batons across the joists every so often or use nails (Board I've ordered is a tiny bit deeper than joist depth - should project fractionally below joists...batons should give a snug fit - but...

Thanks I had forgotten about eco wool - would be nicer to handle ... but looking at the k rating and the depths supplied I would have a lesser but similar problem - it would have to hang down under the joists a bit (or be compressed) to get a decent U value - so it would reduce the crawl space...

Going to insulate under my suspended floor with kingspan boards (I have dithered for ages ...I know expensive etc but limited crawlspace so rockwool would be really nasty to do and thickness to give a decent uvalue would make any future underfloor work unpleasant too -and I can't easily take...

I think you have... I've had a scorpion for years and ebay is the best place for the blades but they are still not cheap ...I wouldn't buy a scorpion again because of that... IME Sawing green wood/branches etc kills the blades...and they are pretty bad at it...lots of sticking and...

I have had 'LED downlighters' fitted in my bathroom and now want to sort out the insulation in the attic.... (I thought that meant they came as a unit but have realised they are 'normal' downlighters with LED bulbs fitted...feeling a bit stupid now! :oops: Electrician said I 'don't need to...

Hi Worcester Bosch CDI 35 - heating off, used for hot water for shower - water off and boiler making a loud deep rhythmic banging noise (don't know how long it been doing it cos of noise in shower). Turned off boiler noise continued - loosened vent on top - lots of air came out ...and noise...

I will try both .... I don't think it is cold getting into hot in the pipes ...when heating was installed and hot water went onto mains pressure the hot water plastic pipes in the bathroom failed at the joints - flew off spraying water everywhere - we had the hot water off at the boiler until...

Sorry... children easter hols distraction...but still could do with sorting this out ... Thinking about this....if I turn the rate at which the water flows into the boiler down for the hot water... Then turn the isolator on the kitchen tap up ..and the ones on the bath and basin maybe leave...

Thanks but unfortunately it is the bathroom basin too ....that was where I was trying to get a jug of hot water from! We have a separate shower in the bathroom which is a thermostat one (Mira) but isn't designed for a combi. At first the heating engineers who put the central heating in...

Ok - that was a bit of faff ...(first attempt bucket overflowed!) Did it for 30 secs and got just less than 8lt - so approx 16 lt/per min (maybe slightly more than that - coordinating tap, timer and bucket probably lost a second or so at start) I never turn tap full on to run bath - usually...

Sorry cross post ...what do you mean that the water pressure is too high for the combi? (I know it was the highest lt per min hot water I could get at the time - so 12 or 15Lt????) I can't do a bucket now - might wake children up ...but can try tomorrow - do I turn the taps fully on?

I keep trying to get it warmer by reducing the flow upstairs but it seems to then not to be enough to get it to fire up - so it goes cold - the jug was in the bathroom basin - so 15mmm taps.... (actually kitchen tap seems to run fast enough ...but know that isn't fully turned on at its isolator...

Can anyone explain this to me Worchester Bosch 35CDII combi boiler - about 10 years old. Had a few bits replaced in last year....(including a valve to heat exchanger (IIRC) and external expansion vessel)- settings will have been changed - I think maybe water feed pressure increased (we have v...

Looking at screwfix ones and some of them have on/off switches on the reels - fantastic! Will have to have a closer look (was looking at toolstation)... Don't want one with a RCD plug - they are too big ...that's how I wrecked my outside socket in this house...I was trying to plug a circuit...

Thanks -so looking at lots of reels online they don't say coiled/uncoiled - they say they have a maximum load of 3120 watts - so if I understand that means a 1600 watt hoover, 550w drill and 11 w bulb would be fine on one of these if fully uncoiled... but not coiled if can only take 10% load...

Not sure if this shouldn't be in electrics but ... I had a good quality professional 40m one - old though so no thermal cut out. Someone (not me!) managed to overload it (an electric convector heater) -the coils all melted together.. :( Need a new one -with thermal cut out :) but got all...