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The basement of rooms of this 1850 terraced house has concrete floors. The carpet appears perfectly dry and sound. The skirting boards are rotting, typically for up to 5cm above the ground though in one corner the root extend up to 25 cm and there are bubbles and slots on the plaster higher up...

My mother is 96. She lives frugally by herself in the (four-bedroom, eight-radiator) house where she has lived for more than forty years. Her boiler (Potterton Kingfisher, less than thirty years old) has just been turned off as unsafe, so replacement is needed. The system is old in parts...

Which are the most reliable open vent boilers with SEDBUK rating A? I've been advised against getting a combination boiler, as there is space (and an F&E tank) for an open vent boiler. However I've heard that some open vent boilers in practice make assumptions that hold in a pressurised system...

Problem The problem being discussed here is the “correct” position of the vent and the cold feed. The other information, about this system and its problems, is background reading. Still, I'd also welcome any suggestions about dealing with those problems. If CH, but not HW, is on, the boiler...

I'd be very grateful for help with the following. Problem The boiler cuts out 5 minutes after starting because it reaches 80 degrees. It then takes 10 minutes to cool down enough to restart, though it can sometimes be restarted by flicking the HW on and off or clicking the room thermostat...

I have an almost horizontaL lead gutter about 70 mm wide between a gently sloping zinc roof and a vertical brick wall. There is a hole in the lead, about 15 mm by 5mm, probably caused when I was cutting away the wood underneath the flat roof, which is rotting. (The water causing the rot is...