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how can I tell for sure if its above or below, my last house had quite a noticeable line where the damp course was but that was a new type house this one is 1900, what did they use for a damp course? Thanks

I need to change the room stats on 2 bedroom rads. Do I have to drain the whole system? and would it be a down stairs rad that I drain it from? I have a cylinder in the airing cupboard up stairs and a boiler on the wall downstairs with 2 tanks in the loft Thanks

House was built 1900. The air bricks are about 9 x 2.5 Thanks

could anyone tell me where the damp proof course is likely to be on a house with a suspended floor. There are vents around the bottom of the house, will the damp proof be below these and if so, by how much. Thank you

Hi, I have a quite badly cracked ceiling, could I plaster board over the whole ceiling by screwing through into the joists and then skim it over? or should I pull down the old and start again. Its a lath and plastered type Thanks

The wires from bt go into a box, there are no screw connecters, the wires are crimped with little plastic joiners. Thanks

What voltage, if any, should there be upstairs? Yes please, would be nice to have the upstairs working. Thank you

Perhaps bt are just saying that there has never been 2 numbers so I pay £125 to ge another line put in? Thanks

BT said there has never been 2 phone numbers at the property. There's not a small box at the eaves. The wre comes to the eaves, down the wall into the house and then into a small connection box (it's just a connection box not an NTE 5 socket). Thanks

The wires from upstairs connect to the black and green from bt. Wires from the bt pole go into a connection box(not a plug in socket just a connection box) are white, orange, black and green. Black and green are connected to the upstairs socket, which has no ring tone or dial tone. Orange...

The main box and the other extensions looks like bt work not previous owner. The cable from bt has 4 wires black, green, white, orange. Should there be voltage at the end of the extensions? Thanks

The main box in from bt has white and orange for downstairs and black and green for upstairs. No other wires are there. Bt said that there was only ever 1 number at this address. Thanks

black connected to blue/white stripe & green connected to white/blue stripe. No alarm in the house. The orange and white wires are connected downstairs which do work no dial tone and no ring tone upstairs. tried 17070 but its dead Thanks

Phoned bt but they said that the previous peeps did not have 2 numbers. Is that what black and the green are for? Thank you

Our new house has a phone socket downstairs which is separate from the main bt connection box and works fine. The upstairs socket has no ring tone when a phone is plugged in. After looking at the main bt box into the house the downstairs is wired to the orange and white wires but the upstairs...

The patio does seem to be high, originally the house was brick but at some stage its been rendered and the bottom lip of the render, which curves out slightly, is only about 1/2 inch above the patio. There is a small gap between the patio and house which water could sit. If the patio is the...

Hi, Our new house was built around 1903, just after we had heavy rain, one corner has damp coming through to the inside wall. The patch is on 2 walls of the corner, one wall worse than the other and about 28 inches long by 16 inches up the wall, the worst looking bit is about 10 inches up...

Thanks for the advice. The cowl at the moment does not look terracotta although it does look concrete, its like a tripod with a pointed hat. Thanks

Can anyone advise please. We have a fireplace but no fire, our chimney has a liner and on the stack is what looks like an old cast concrete fancy cowl. Could I get this liner swept and use this fire place with a log burner? Thanks very much

The electricain tested the tank stat which was fine then tested the motorized valve for hot water and found the motor to be shot. I got a central heating chap to sort it for me which was half the price agile mentioned. All is now fine. Thanks for your help Softus :D