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I had my incoming water main replaced about ten years ago and the company used HDPE pipe and push fit couplings. Fair enough except that one is weeping. In fact it was always wet but it dried as fast as it wept for years, but now it weeps too quickly to ignore. I cannot get the original plumber...

I have a paved balcony over part of a garage. It was relaid and a new balustrade fitted but the builder (now defunct) persuaded me that a coat or two of Cromapol would work as well as a membrane at keeping water from penetrating to the garage below. Needless to say it did not. Despite...

Also posted in 'General' as I don't know what section it belongs in. I have a flat roof over part of my garage and it doubles as a balcony. It is laid on concrete structural beams forming the garage roof and comprises flagstones grouted/pointed with mortar so it is stable. It was relaid about...

I have a flat roof over part of my garage and it doubles as a balcony. It is laid on concrete structural beams forming the garage roof and comprises flagstones grouted/pointed with mortar so it is stable. It was relaid about seven years ago but no rubber or other membrane was installed between...

A fairly short run of gutter on my house started to overflow in heavy rain recently. It's along a part of the house that I don't often walk along even in the dry, and as I avoid doing so when it's wet it obviously could have been blocked for a while. It's allegedly run in to a soakaway (so the...

I have a vertical panel radiator in my bathroom and I need a towel rail to mount across it so the towels hang in front of it. This is the rad:- https://www.bathroomtakeaway.co.uk/norden-radiator-1600-x-480-white-single.html A conventional chrome single rail would be fine but it has to be deep...

This is on the filling loop of a house that has been let for 18 months and has now been vacated. It wasn't there before - I assume it's a pressure vessel to augment the internal one in the combi boiler, but I haven't seen one before and Google has let me down.

I'm intending to replace my aged Potterton C40/12 with a Vaillant Ecomax Pro18E soon. Is this a choice any of you would endorse? :?: :)