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Just what I was hoping! The extra thickness of the wall won't be a problem. I plan on fixing the battens into the wall, not the existing plaster. Finding a stone to screw into may be the big problem; it was quite tricky to find a suitable stone when the walls were bare! Cheers, Mike

I've got a bedroom that needs drylining. The house is Victorian with solid stone external walls. The plaster/render is in a poor condition with a mould problem where there had been a built in wardrobe. In the past when doing other rooms in the house, I've knocked off all the plaster, put up...

And hopefully that's the last you hear of it. I know what you mean though; if people are willing to give advice, it's only right to share the outcome. It may help someone with the same problem, and could point to some advice being wrong. Cheers, Mike

I emailed and phoned Building Control - they were on a training course but I was advised to just fill it! There was a long piece of old mantlepiece/hearth that had been acting like a lintel over a 'cave'. I guess that the side of the 'cave' had fallen in leaving the lintel unsupported at one...

It was built in 1898, before that "all round 'ere were fields". Drive was gravelled a few years before we moved here in 2002. Under the 'decorative' chips is a 4-6" layer of compacted ballast, rubble and bricks on clay. Mike

Sorry about the quality of the photos, it's dark now! Water erosion was one of my thoughts, and there's definitely rubble and in-fill under the surface. In September last year, I put in a new gulley to replace the one against the house next to the hedge. Until then, all the...

I'd better sleep in the back room tonight! :) I've scraped the gravel away from the edge to look for cracks etc. it looks like a chamber about 4ft diameter, and looks like it's natural, not man made. Worryingly it's only 6 inches below where I've been parking for nearly 11 years! Mike

Not sure this is the correct forum, but I got home tonight and reversed onto the drive (gravel over clay and rubble). I got out and found the back wheel in a 2ft x 1.5ft hole! It's at least 2ft deep but with bits of brick etc in it. I managed to get the car out and back on to the road but WTF...

Eh??? It's a CD24S. I'm going off the label on the front of the boiler (see photo) and the documentation supplied when it was fitted. [/img] The expansion vessel is at the rear (and inaccessible). I don't know where the CB version and left mounted tank came into the equation. Despite...

All done, no new vessel needed after all :). In case it helps anyone else, here's how... I took a 6 inch piece of 15mm copper tube and crimped the end so it was a tight fit on the valve cap - I could then turn it from the top of the boiler and the cap came away lodged in the pipe. I tried...

God help you if you have something more difficult than this! It's behind (not to the left) and 5 inches down from the top of the boiler which is 4 inches from the ceiling; how stupid of me, I naively thought it might be accessible to human beings. It explains why the manual glosses over how...