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Hi, We have recently moved things around in our main bedroom and noticed a damp patch on one of the walls. This is a 1st floor room in a two floor house and the patch is towards the lower left corner as you look at the window in the room. Currently the patch is not very big, less than the...

Hi, Its taken us weeks but weve finally managed to remove the horrid artex from our living room celiing. We did this by steaming the stuff off and in doing so managed to get back to the original plaster... which is in pretty good condition. So, two questions spring to mind as to what to do...

Hi, Sometime back we had an old back boiler removed and had a new combi boiler installed. The back boiler sat behind the living room fire and the new boiler is now situated in another room. As part of this job we had a new radiator installed in the living room directly under the window...

Hi, We currently have an 8.5Kw shower in our bathroom and with my 'cost reducing' hat on (note not my 'energy saving' hat), I would like to know whether I would gain much by changing to a mixer shower that would run off our new combi (24Kw Vaillant). I'm assuming that the flow rate of the...

Hi, One of our radiators has broken and needs replacing, this is also an opportunity to get a bigger radiator as the muppet that installed it had no idea how much heat the room needed (in a 17' x 10' room they installed a 0.68Kw radiator, not clever). Anyway, the room requires 1.5-2.0Kw by...

Anyone know if this is still the case as our house used to be a rental property and at some point someone decided to install a window (note 1 window) with a keyloss lock (ie push button). Thing is, most insurers are now starting to insist on key operated locks and I was just wondering whether to...

Hi, Earlier this year we had to shut off our main kitchen raiator as it had started leaking; the leak in question was from the bottom of the radiator, partly underneath and more or less in the middle. Inconvenient but still... This week we've had another radiator go in exactly the same...

Hi, As the cold weather draws in were looking at ways reducing draughts and keeping as much heat as we can in. Our living room, a typical semi-detached, one external wall type has 4 airbricks in. 3 at ground level (bottom left, bottom middle & bottom right) and 1 in one of the top corners...

Hi, In picking a new radiator for a room, I've noticed that BTU figures seem to differ considerably between sites and manufacturers. As an example, a Double panel 1000w x 500h panel from B&Q (Kudos brand) states 1.476Kw whereas from Homebase (Quinn brand) stated 1.662Kw - a difference of...

Hi, Recently we've noticed that one of our radiators has started leaking and upon closer inspection we've found that the leak is coming from the bottom of main panel of the radiator itself - as if it has been knocked by something. This leak is tiny, most of the time you can't see it...

Hi, We recently had our back boiler and accompanying fire removed as part of a heating system upgrade and what we would like to fit in its place is a quality wood-burner 'effect' fire (be it gas or electric) - think cast iron Broseley/Aga as opposed to tin can Valor/Dimplex. The thing is...

Hi, Having had a back boiler and accompanying fire removed (one of those fires that won't work on its own) we've looked at what we are left with and you can see what appears to be a flexible spigot (that was attached to the old boiler) that runs up the chimney surrounded by insulation -...

Hi, We have a small 3 bed house (by small, I'm talking 17' x 23' x two floors, no dining room, no ensuites, 1 of the bedrooms is barely big enough to fit a bed in), and using conventional wisdom (ie 'system' boiler calculations) this equates to 13½Kw of heating plus 2½Kw of water heating or a...

Hi, Has anyone had any experience of Warm-a-wall internal wall insulation. It appears to be one of only two products that the EST recommend for Internal Wall Insulation (the other being Sempatap Thermal). Unlike Sempatap however this (warm-a-wall) needs to be skimmed before use and as...

Hi, I had an idea re the above and could do with some feedback as to whether I am completely barking or whether this is a sensible suggestion. In our house we have suspended wooden flooring on the ground floor and B&Q (ww.diy.com) are currently doing top-up loft insulation (200mm) for £9...

Hi, Hope someone can help, we have a radiator in our living room which during cold weather seems to struggle in maintaining room temperature above 21C. First, a bit of background, We replaced an aging (inefficient) back boiler with a new Vaillant EcoTec 824 (recommendation of an EPC) which...