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Hmm I'm not convinced.

They are cowls and they were marketed especially for my pots. The flaunching mix used was a 3:1 mix (no aggregate added). Genuine question so that I understand - how would rain to enter the stack? Wind driven rain I'll accept as you'd get on any pot, but are you saying it would be worse in my...

The roofers working on our house removed 4 pots and fitted 4 cowls. Fitting them was my request as they will service working flues and keep unused flues ventilated. I also had liners put down. The question on my mind is this -- is this method of fixing acceptable? Seems strange them being...

No, often up that way walking but I live in South Derbyshire.

I had a long thought about all of this and decided to remove the fireplaces and replace with burners (which I'd used for a number of years before moving here). The fireplaces I took out were not original and the hearth tiles long since taken up, so no loss of history.

Hi all, I have two open fires which are used in the Winter. Both leak gasses into the above bedrooms (which have open and unused fireplaces). I am having cowls fitted to the tops of all pots and liners put down the working flues to ensure all gases are safely extracted to the atmosphere. My...

Just as an update, I bought the Titan vacuum and used it to vac out as far as the hose went. I must have shifted 30-40 litres. It was a very unpleasant job, but I was impressed with the Titan. The water level dropped in the gulley but was still high so I felt a bit defeated. The next morning...

I've decided to just suck it all out. I have a thought as to what a lot of the blockage may be. 1. The previous owners didn't put a leaf guard on the drain pipe. 2. When we had a rear chimney stack lowered, there was a lot of debris on the roof which I think has found its way into the drain...

I appear to have a blockage on an outside drain. Foul water is backing up from the point pictured, which is a bottle gulley made by Osma (4D901). I'll be rodding it later to clear the suspected blockage, but I have a few questions first. - what is the purpose of the rubber bung on these units...

Thanks all for replies. I bought a reel of CAT6 and ran it to a laptop in the garden. Plugged the other end into a spare LAN port on the access point and got a very good connection to the main router. Happy with the set up and pleased I don’t have to worry about manually assigning IP addresses.

I should have specified! The router I have is a TP-Link Archer C2 (bought it in 2013 brand new and only opened it this weekend). I have connected it to the Virgin Hub via a LAN port, as I understood this is what’s needed if disabling DCHP server mode. I hoped I could use the other ports for...

Hi all, I have a wireless modem router (Virgin Media Hub 3.0). I have used a LAN connection to bridge it to a non-modem wireless router and have disabled the DCHP server option. This has successfully extended the range of my router. I have a network requirement out in the garage and I would...

Okay I’ve located the AAV. As per the attached, it’s on the top of a stack which runs behind all the visible plumbing. This then goes into the roof void. To change the valve, it means getting onto the roof and lifting the flashing and slate. To avoid doing this, would a 40mm AAV (installed...

Thanks, yes it all seems to sound like a vacuum. The stack actually terminates at a level somewhere below the bathroom window sill, in a ground floor extension roof space. In the past it used to run up the back of the house to the roof, but was reduced in height to avoid having to tile around...

Bit of an update on this... we now have bubbling from the shower waste trap, the bath and the toilet despite there having been no rain for a number of days. This happens whenever water drains away. The shower drains slowly, but there is no blockage in the pipe. There is a faint smell of sewage...

I've noticed during the recent bout of rain that our upstairs plumbing exhibits some strange behaviour when the rain is heavy, with the toilet and bath gurgling and bubbling. Our waste water and surface water drainage are on a shared system, so my guess is that the influx of rainwater into the...

I’m hoping it’s okay as I think the water table is quite low here. I grew up in two houses a few streets away and have only recently moved 15 houses down. I’ve seen a few holes to 6ft and we reached sand each time. It’s a good point though, and something I’ll bear in mind should it start getting...

I live in a detached house built sometime between 1901 and 1906. I know there was a cellar under the house as there are steps under the stairs which lead downwards, and the former owners told me that one had been filled in by the owners before them (who had owned the house for around 40 years)...

It wasn’t obvious to me as I couldn’t see it, but now you’ve pointed it out I see what you mean. There is charring and molten metal on that bar.

I’ve been stripping wallpaper in one of the rooms at home. Didn’t use the steamer near any sockets (used used a dry scraper) and powered the steamer directly from another room, away from the steamer. Today I was spraying the walls with sugar soap to scrape off remaining adhesive and all was...