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I bought a house last August that currently has standard gas central heating radiators. However, the house used to have old-style hot air heating (it's a Wimpey No-Fines Concrete house from the 70s). All of the vents in the rooms have been removed and plastered over. However, in the cupboard...

From my experience with them so far, temperature control has been great. I'm not sure how much of that is dictated by the type of boiler system (I have a newly installed combi-boiler). All I need to do is open the hot tap fully (which is a simple quarter turn) and I get consistent, perfectly...

LOL! Such flattery - I'm blushing! :p The "two nuts" thing initially had me in a bit of a flap. Because while I tried in vain to loosen the flexible hose from the underside of the tap, the hose itself kept twisting and moving about (I didn't have two decent wrenches at that point - just one...

I didn't realise how strong silicone adhesive could be. That's good to know. I've decided to do a bit of upgrading to the pipework behind the basin -and once I've done that, I will re-affix the basin to the wall using silicone. And I'll also use some Plumbers Mait to bed in the basin to the...

Thank you hugely for all of the helpful advice. As Mike highlighted though, I'm probably too much of a novice to attempt an "real" plumbing repairs. In the end I bought a new adjustable wrench and tried tightening the nut without trying anything else. This (which I did reeeeeeally carefully...

Sorry for the delay in replying. I just spent an inordinately long time trying to get an "action" shot of the drip. I finally managed to persuade myself that people on this forum would more than likely be able to imagine what a leaky joint looked like. And also, since I am half insane with...

Hahaha! I've just looked at what I've posted. People always dig me up about being overly long in my emails/texts/shopping lists/whatever! And I've been advised things like "just keep it simple - bullet points, etc". As you can see from my post above, I managed to follow that useful advice...

New house, lots of DIY. I've always been fairly handy. But I seem to have developed a slightly manic "have-a-go-hero" mentality towards any jobs that come up nowadays. I've even turned my hand to bits and bobs of plumbing (replaced the waste unit on kitchen sink, repaired the mixer shower tap...

Just a wee follow-up. I went back to look at the house again the day after I last posted here (it was not an official viewing, so the house was unoccupied). And I realised that roofers had been there laying down a new layer of felt on top of the old yucky roof. So bang went any chance of...

Thank you again for all the hugely helpful replies! Yes, the survey report is ridiculously lacking in useful information, I totally agree. I'm not sure about the property market throughout the rest of the UK - but in Scotland, what happens is the seller arranges and pays for a "Home Report"...

Thank you so so much for all of your replies so far! I took dozens of photos yesterday when I was at the house - but there are not any good ones of the roof. But I will upload a selection below to let you see if anything helps. For info - the living room is to the left of the kitchen in the...

I am in the process of buying a flat-roof bungalow. It has been lying empty for 8 months so smelled quite "musty" when I viewed it last week. As per the rules in Scotland, the Home Report survey had to be refreshed to make sure there were no changes since the report was last prepared (which...