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Hello My loft is boarded throughout. I recently discovered that underneath the boards is a very strange insulation material - basically it looks & feels something like what you'd put in a hamster's cage - i.e. loose material, quite scratchy and looks liek a cross between scrunched up...

Moved into this house in October which has oil-fired central heating which I have not used before. The boiler is in the garage and the tank is in the back garden approx 5m away. The feed pipe is buried. When I moved in I fairly regularly smelt oil around the tank and the area of the feed...

Outside my kitchen door I have a large drainage gully into which flows the outflow from the kitchen sink and appliances, and also the guttering. These drain free into the gutter (if that makes sense). Alongside are the waste pipe from the toilet and the air pipe, which are concreted in and go...

Quite a long one this so bear with me. I have even included a dodgy diagram! The pop-up plug on my bath is broken, so to empty the bath you need to pull the whole plug physically out of the plughole. I think this means that the water flows away much quicker than it would if the plug just...

There is a 0 reading and the gauge doesn't move whether it's on or off. Heating & hot water work fine though. Have I got a problem? Should I even be running the boiler when it's 0 pressure? Or might it just be a broken gauge? thanks

My kitchen mixer tap is leaking, I stripped it down and the tap core is very very stiff. OK no problem just replace it but it is a half-turn unit (with a semi-circular opening), the shops I have been too only have quarter-turn units, and suck their teeth when I ask how I can get a replacement...

My circuit breaker tripped the other day - my gf reset it but it kept wanting to trip back so she just held it down and eventually it stayed on (I was out at the time) Now I discover the electricty supply to the boiler is dead. I suspect a fuse has gone somewhere but I have checked the...