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I have damaged a sheet on my neighbours conservatory roof.Was felting my own flat roof and was quite windy. A section of roof felt I was working with was caught by a gust but also dragged a half roof tile too. it has made dent in one of the sheets about the size of 10p.I doesnt seem to be...

Hi, My porch roof has been leaking for ages and with the cold winters the faces have come off some of the bricks.I m going to sort the roof out but also want to render the brickwork,what sort of prep is required with regards to coating it with something before rending? Thanks

Fitted a towel rail today in place of an existing rad,froze pipes about 150mm back from existing valves fitted towel rail and new valves. Opened valves and bled through but water was hot. The hot water had been on for about three hours on timer but c/h off Its a system boiler.Any ideass what...

I added a couple of rads to our heating system in jan,ran 15mm off 22mm flow and returns to feed 2 small rads one in wc and one in bathroom. There has been a bit more system noise than before since they were added.Over the last couple of weeks the boiler has on occassion been giving out a...

University fees rise and students are marching and some smashing up the place. In france they want to raise the retirement age and they all strike and march. They slowly creep up the price of fuel which in turn pushes up the price of everything else and what does everyone do??? My poor...

I did some work for customer and they asked me to have a look at their bathroom ceiling.It was flaking over the shower.I removed all the flaking paint filled and primed it then top coat. After about 6 months it was flaking again,she got another decorator in.His work was flaking in 2 weeks...

Do mains smoke detectors require their own circuit or can they be spurred from the lighting circuit?

A lot of the wiring in our loft space was very untidy,cables not clipped to beams etc. I have been tidying it up bit and have noticed that there is no return to the cu off the last socket.There are a couple of the sockets fed via junction boxes.Would this cause a problem if I decide to have...

Will be piping up my loft extension soon for ch and wanted to use pex pipe.Have someone coming to fit a combi for me once the pipe work is in place.My tutor at college mentioned about having to have copper from the boiler to start with then connect to the pex. I've lost my notes and can't...

Is it possible to fit a thermostatic mixer on a bath if the flow rates are slightly different? I dont have a weir cup so used a bucket with litres on the side (crude method I know) The hot came out at 12 litres per min (0.2 lps) and the cold 16 litres per min (0.26 lps) Would this...

Before the weather turned I was half way through building a shed dormer extension.Got the roof on and sides closed in and roof felted. One half of the roof is wbp ply and the other half is structural spruce ply. As its not insulated yet and there has been warm air from beneath there has been...

Well I just wanted to say a big thank you to all those stars who will be giving up their time to sing,perform etc for the Haiti appeal to encourage us to donate. Just wonder how much of their own cash they have put in the pot?? :? I would be happy to hand over a week of my wages if all the...

I am currently in the process of building shed dormers on my bungalow. I have now run into a snag and wondered if anyone can offer advice/opinons. Its a flat roof and the drawing says "use celotex xr120 50mm cavity between joists with 1000gauge visqueen. I did this but when the inspector...

The temp on manual mixer is either hot or cold with no inbetween,pipes are right way round but have found that the cold is fed from the mains so assuming that there is an imbalance in the pressure.Would a thermostatic mixer cure this?? TIA

I am currently in the process of building a dormer extension and wondered if anyone has opinons on the best insulation? Kingspan,celotex,rocksilk? The working drawing mentions celotex but also says or other equal and approved insulation method. I would just like to make sure my money is...

Am in the process of building a dormer extension and have been looking at the other dormers where I live.The lip of felt at the edge that goes over the gutters shows no signs of fixing,what is normally used to fix the felt at/over the edges?

Well I have fitted all my steelwork and the bco inspected it yesterday and passed it all so now I am going to be looking at beginning the timber framing.My question is what is an acceptable way to fix the timber together? I am bolting a 2x4 to the top of the ub with m10s at 400mm centers. I...

Hi guys and thanks for help so far,another question for you,is this an acceptable way to join the universal beams? thanks

I have removed some polystyrene tiles and still have blobs of adhesive left making pretty patterns on the ceiling. :roll: Other than scraping it off or getting it replastered is there anything that might dissolve or break down this adhesive??

Hi, I am currently doing some of the prep work for my dormer extension and am fitting some steel work,on the working drawing it says "universal beam with s/w plate bolted to to top flange. I assumed that this would be a length of timber fixed to the ub to allow fixing of the uprights for...