Search results

@mrrusty We've got a 10 year insurance warranty with the company which is up next year. Okay so a couple of their guys came out and am pleased to say there wasn't a hint of deflection as regards responsibility. They spotted several issues which should have been taken care of when first...

We've got several issues with out 9 year old conservatory those issues being a leak from the soffit ajoining the house, damp coming thru near the conservatory exterior doors and one of the conservatory roof panes has shifted. We've had installers out before regarding the leak and they squarely...

No thats actually my partner's strand of hair. It gets everywhere :giggle: I'll be getting the Dremel to sand it down a bit but if I need to fill in any gaps can you recommend what I might use.

I'm going to be giving this a fresh coat of pain and what to get the old filler out and give the area a good clean. Any idea what you folk would recommend as a replacement filler. Thanks

One of the panes (Ultraframe Active) has slipped away from the rafter so much so I'm surprised water isn't leaking through (see first photo). I can also see gaps, big enough I can slide a cable tie through, which I hadn't noticed before but then again I wasn't looking for them until now. The...

So I've taken a video of the leak which is coming from the foil backed insulation which is applied to the gutter so it does indeed look like my leak is coming from a join in the gutter. It's a bit odd as there is always a pool of water resting in the gutter esp in winter and no leak. I've tried...

In the second photo you can see the box gutter going from left to right and the lower arrow pointing to where the water is leaking through. On the outside of the window you will see some rainwater leaking from somehere but on this occasion no leak on the inside but this mirrors where the leak...

Will give that a try thanks. Got a boiler guy coming next week and will confirm with him.

That seems to be the case. So many people just take the word of the service engineer that attends as they know people will generally pay up and nobody wants to take a chance with gas. There is the throwaway culture which combined with greed means many boilers are consigned to the rubbish when...

Totally agree, it's madness! And the thing cost is absolutely no guarantee of the quality of work either. I've replaced a secondary heat exchanger myself. The main HE looks very doable from the Worcester videos online but I'd rather get a boiler engineer to do it and esp if we're selling the...

Sounds like excellent advice and a very helpful post I will have a proper look tomorrow at eBay, I didn't realise new ones could be got that cheap. When I did have a quick Google I saw old/reconditioned ones, a lot had the ribbing which I was told is the coil inside. I did see one new one from a...

I don't really want to go down the route of a new boiler esp as we're hoping to move next year, I'd rather save the cash for the doer upper we'd be moving into. Of course we want the boiler to be safe but I don't believe a Gas Safe cert is required for boilers when selling privately unless you...

What do you think? New boiler required? We recently got our Worcester Greenstar boiler, which was working fine, looked at as it was time for it to be serviced as it hadn't been looked at for several years. The boiler chap after taking off the cover took one look at the main heat exchanger and...

Pictures are excellent esp the one on page 6 really helps. Now I'm praying for a leak to take place :sneaky: But after a days rain, not a drop!

Those illustrations are really helpful thank you. When the conservatory folk came out they tried to blame the leak on the house roof letting water in i.e. above the house soffit. I was't convinced simply beause of the original leak which was coming from half way along the corner rafter. This...

Yes the water dripping down the glass is on the outside. It's raining persistently here but can't see a drop of water coming through today, typical! Or even a sign of water marks on the inside of the section I'm pulling down. Originally years ago when all this started the water was dripping from...

Okay this is proving trickier that I had hoped. I've shared photos here. I've unclipped the fascia (lip brittle in places) and peeled it away but the undercloaking seems well and truly fixed. I have managed to bend it down, away from the gutter but I can see there are screws which have been...

Yes it will be interesting though might have to wait till the next heavy rainfall. We had a decorator in recently who said there most conservatories new & newish end up leaking at some point. Well I think I've got the installer's pdf I recently downloaded from Ultraframe but it's on a retired PC...

I will update further but today managed to make a start on it from a corner end. Initially it wouldn't budge at all and had to use a decorators wide scraper blade inserted into a small gap I got from the underside and with the help of a screwdriver then released the top bit and just nudged it...

Thank you Andy. I didn't know any of this so this will be invaluable if I can't find a replacement. Love at the end of the video how the cartridge detached so easily from the body of the tap. No way mines budging :(