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Evening all, I got a bit excited after bleeding this rad the other week and snapped the head off the bleed screw when tightening with the key. Is it possible/relatively simple to just replace the screw? If not, can the whole valve be replaced with the more “modern” kind that you bleed with a...

@blup i reckon this is the way to go. Cheers for that

Not a bad idea knocking them in! So far all the ones where the head has snapped off have snapped below the level of the plaster. When the heads don’t snap off they’re protruding so far I’m not sure I’d be able to knock them in deep enough.

Morning all, Took on what I thought would be an easy job Saturday, pulling off an old picture rail from the wall. Bit of a mess created for the plasterer, but took me 5x longer thanks to the old nails. Not sure specifically what kind they are, but they look most like what I’d expect to see the...

@Harry Bloomfield sounds like probably the pin is seized up? Try some WD40

@foxhole even talking a mm or two? If that’s the case what do you recommend? Ply over then self levelling?

Cheers for that. The LVT has a built in underlay, needs to go direct on the subfloor. My boards aren’t T&G but the gaps aren’t actually too bad. I think just ply would be okay in terms of floor height, adding some SLC on top of that might cause a bit of an issue for a regular threshold bar...

Hi everyone, Looking to install click LVT in our upstairs bedrooms. I’m aware of the opinions on this but given kids/dog on the horizon we need something durable and the budget doesn’t stretch to a professional glue down install. I’m hoping getting the prep right means an install that will...

What’s the floor area? If it’s 15m2 or less, or less than 30m2 but is a metre from the boundary or is non combustible, you needn’t worry about building regs. This is provided there’s no sleeping accommodation which I wouldn’t expect in a workshop anyway! That said, either way you should do the...

@Wayners a small section of the existing board? For what?

Hi all, Wanted to share my experience balancing my heating system. This needed doing as the rad in our living room wasn't heating up at all. The job was complicated somewhat by 4 of our 9 rads not having a lockshield but 2 manual valves. This was 5 before I replaced a leaking valve on our towel...

Hi all, Looking for someone to critique my plan to sort this. Previous owners have had some board put on the wall, I think dot and dabbed, and then likely skimmed, or someone's done a very good tape and joint job. Unfortunately they decided to stop short of the pitched section of the ceiling...

@huggybear the blue one there is the PRV. What I was confused about was why orange branches off before the boiler, but seems that’s normal

Thanks. I’m familiar with both of those but online I’d not managed to find a picture of a boiler with the same setup.

@terryplumb there’s another pipe coming out on the left which has a radiator symbol on it, I assumed that’s what that was?

Cheers @Wayners . Interesting, why caulk between wall and ceiling and not joint tape?

Hi all, Flummoxed on this one. I've had to change a rad valve the other day, and topped the system pressure up this morning. This afternoon I noticed the pressure was about 3 bar and the PRV had been discharging outside. The filling loop had been left connected, the valve on the mains side was...

Hi all, The previous owner of our house has dot and dabbed some board over the wall but not gone all the way up to the ceiling. Our ceiling is flat in the middle but then has an angled section sloping down to the wall, which is where this plasterboard should have met it. They’ve covered the top...

Understood! Though it will require increasing the roof height…does that fall under permitted development generally?

Thanks ree, I’ll look in to that. I can’t help but ask, why two adults? And maybe more importantly, do I count as one?