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Hi Is someone able to offer some advice please. We noticed a few of the bricks in our block paving has risen slightly around the drainpipe. So I had a closer look and noticed the house bricks have started going white around the drain pipe exit area. We also did notice during the winter the...

Thanks for the advice, The chimney comes out on the ridge of the house though so im not sure how a saddle would work here? Unless I have misunderstood how a saddle works. Apologies im not very knowledgeable when it comes to roofing

Oh right thats an interesting point, thank you.

Hi I noticed a leak in the loft around our chimney early in the year. I have had 2 roofers round to sort it so far. One of them did some repointing which didn't help so i got a second roofer to look and they sorted the leading and re cemented the top (see pictures below) I dried it out...

Hardest thing in the world is finding a decent tradesman, and one. That actually turn up Yeah its certainly looking to be a challenge, I'm just hoping I find someone before it gets to bad and I need the wood replacing (if it doesn't already). I did ask the roofer if it was not to cold and...

It seems a pretty busy time for roofers at the minute, I have rang 4 local roofers and the soonest one can come is Friday. We had a small amount of rain last night so I have been back into the loft and it seems to have got worse than before the re pointing was done, don't how that's possible...

From what I can see from the ground most the pointing seems to have been done on the front face. Although he did tell me he went around the chimney and did where was needed (I don't know whether the different mortar colours makes it look worse or he has just not done the job correctly)...

Hi after the storm the other week we discovered we had a roof leak, it looked like water was getting in around the chimney and running down the chimney into the bedroom. I got a roofer out and he said the chimney needed repointing and that was to blame. So he came and re pointed it yesterday...

Hi I seem to be having terrible luck lately. A couple of weeks ago we had a roofer remove an old back boiler chimney due to a leak, when he was up there we asked him to cap the main chimney and re do the ridge tiles as we noticed a lot of mortar missing. I have just noticed some water on a...

Thanks for confirming @muggles, I will have a nice chat with WB later. @ericmark I will bear that all in mind, thanks I have been dwelling on the situation and to be honest, the more I think about it the more I feel I shouldnt have to spend more money on fixing the issue. They came around and...

Interesting, they made it sound like it would reduce the minimum output. I will have to clarify when they ring later and make sure they are not just fobing me off.

Just a bit of feedback on my boiler using to much gas. I have spoken with WB and they agreed the minimum output of the boiler was a bit high for my system. As @muggles said the heating output is 24kw with a minimum of 7kw. But apparently you can turn the output down on the boiler to say 15kw...

Thank you @muggles, @Harry Bloomfield and @ericmark for all your replies, it has been a big learning curve for me. I'm very disappointed in myself for letting us get into this position to be honest. The worse thing being we actually paid a little higher for the work as the company we used is...

We have a Worcester Comfort II RF control unit and Honeywell Home valves on each rad.

Interesting, thanks. I'm not sure why the installation company chose this boiler then, I hoped when they measured up to pick the right rads for each room they would of also worked out the most efficient size boiler. Silly of me to just took there word for it really. Guessing there is not a lot...

The house is definitely warmer than it used to be especially the upstairs as it used to have old 1970's rads in all the bedrooms which seemed to give out little heat. The old boiler used to run almost continuously during the periods of time it was on, only ever turn off for maybe a couple of...

Thanks for the reply muggles. 1. It's mounted to some ply wood against a stud wall so it is probably vibration echoing in the wall as you said then. To be fair I can't remember if I mentioned anything regarding noise levels although I did point out the old tank was very noisy so it would be...

Hi We have this last week had a new heating system fitted. As a quick overview, We replaced 80% of the radiators, added a small rad to the downstairs WC and replaced all the heating pipe work with 15/22mm copper pipe throughout. We removed the old Proton conventional boiler and water tank and...

Thanks for the replies, glad I didn't just go and buy the universal one, don't want to make his life hard. Think it may be better for me to wait until the roofer arrives and chat to him about it then as don't want to buy the wrong thing. Hopefully there is somewhere local that will have them...

Hi I have a roofer in next week to fit a flue through the roof, I want to fit a extractor fan in the bathroom this summer so was thinking if I get a roof vent now I might see if the roofer would mind installing it while he is up there and the scaffolding is up. I have been looking around and...