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Compared to before, we're currently saving about £25-30/mth on heating mate, plus the added flexibility of being able to amend schedules whilst out and about, plus the ability to monitor temperatures historically - all makes it worth it for me.

I'm not sure, but I think I read that this way of heating a house has been proven beyond reasonable doubt to be quite expensive.

Set temp is 10c overnight, basically just to ensure the boiler isn't on overnight (I presume most people don't keep the central heating on overnight?) but the rooms never get much below 15-16c. Jon - I found the position of the HR92 to be poor, but I was limited as to where I would locate it...

Hi all, i recently managed to get my Rapsberry Pi setup to automatically log room temperatures (target and actual) from our smart heating system (Evohome) and plot graphs on Plotly, which has led me to confirm what I've been feeling for a while now - the living room takes ages to warm up! The...

Hi all, I purchased a Risco Agility 3 alarm system from a local installer a few years ago. Now I want to make a change to the volume of the speaker on the control panel (as we've had a baby and it's a bit loud, keeps waking him every time we set/unset the alarm). However it seems I need an...

Morning all, I have a garden irrigation system, consisting of water butts, 13mm supply pipe, 4mm mirco-pipe and mini sprinklers. What are peoples thoughts about leaving them full of water over winter vs draining them? Are they likely to burst if the water in them freezes? What about the...

Yup, that makes sense. So I may be lucky and be able to do it without lifting the floor? So if I make a hole just above the skirting board in the bedroom directly above where I want to fit the network socket? Get the cable to there, then go from there to downstairs. I have a set of cable...

looking at the nails in the photos I've attached, I'm inclined to say the joists are parallel to the wall I want to run the cable down... Looking more closely, the board seems to be nailed down and glued to adjoining boards? (apologies, the photos seem to have rotated when they were uploaded!)

Hi all, I've successfully ran Ethernet cable from an unmanaged switch in the loft to most of the upstairs rooms, but I'd now like to have a cable run from the loft down to beside my BT master socket (on the ground floor). Not as simple. The house is a new build with drylined (dot and dab)...

Thanks for the advice. I did try it like suggested above, but due to the fact that the connection swivels about the centre it didn't make much difference. It just seems to be a terrible design. Newboy - yes, that's what I thought, but the instructions seemed otherwise, and it seems impossible...

Hi all, We have patio doors that we like to keep open when we're sitting in the garden. However even the slightest breeze blows them closed. I'm wondering if there is something we can get which would "lock" them in place when they're open, or mean that they require a stern pull to shut them...

hi all, I've got a 19mm (or 3/4" in old money) garden hose that I've just bought a reel for (most ordinary Hozelock-style reels won't take 3/4 hose). However, when I've wound it on, as you can see in the attached photo it kinks badly, meaning flow is greatly reduced and really the entire...

Many thanks John. I should have said - it had bad hunting issues last summer, so I treated it to a brand new carb, gasket and diaphragm this time last year - all genuine Briggs. It seems different this time, but I'll lost certainly have a look and give it all a clean though, thanks.

Hi all, I have a Mountfield push mower with a Briggs and Stratton engine that isn't running well. The model number stamped onto the engine is: 10D902-0153-B1 It seems to stutter and is putting out more smoke lately, especially when the revs dip. The revs seem to fluctuate a lot, and dip a lot...

Hi all, Have a 1yr old Hornbeam hedge. However some of the trees have started going very brown, starting to look like they're dying if I'm honest. Just wondering what peoples opinions are, and what I can do? Thanks in advance!

Sand is low in nutrient and doesn't retain moisture well, so grass might struggle. Rather than compost, I'd get some topsoil and put it down first, try mixing it in with the sand to "dilute" it.

Thanks for the reply. Yes that is what I thought would be the easiest method, however the wife is not so keen on the look. An alternative that I was thinking of was an ordinary rainwater diverted fitted to the house down pipe just above the top of the water butt, with 15m of 1" flexible pipe...

Hi, I've been collecting rainwater from my garage and shed roofs for several months now, but not being very large surfaces it takes ages for my water butts to fill. And with weekly washing of cars, watering plants, they are quickly depleting. So I'm trying to find a practical yet discreet way...