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Dear All, I have a fair bit of pointing to do so am considering hiring a powered pointing gun (tried Point Master with infinite variations to the mix, could never get it to come out of the tool!). The two I've found available for hire are the Pnu Point (http://www.pnupoint.co.uk/ ) which...

Many thanks. It's an old cottage but certainly two courses of brick thick, if that's 9". Cheers, Steve

Hello! I've started to rake out old lime mortar from our cottage to a depth of around 20mm (mortar width x 2 ?). I'd planned to do all the raking-out, cleaning up etc. on all four walls of the house and then set about putting the lime mortar back in. My question is....if I take out 20mm...

Hello all, Worcester GreenStar HeatSlave 25/32 Oil Combi Boiler Just switched on our heating for the first time in eight months and... The boiler isn't responding to the wireless room stat. Hot water is fine so we're OK for oil and the boiler itself seems happy enough.... Sounding like a...

Ah, many thanks! Your observation about 'plastic' - is that something I should be concerned about with regard to the water softener....? Thanks again, Steve

Hello! Is anyone able to confirm the material used for the primary / secondary heat exchangers in a Worcester Greenstar Heatslave 25/32 combi boiler please? (internal version, oil-fired) I found the following in a Worcester brochure which I **think** answers the question, but I'd feel...

Rrrrrright. OK. Ummm, could you suggest a Grant model that will be sufficient for the cottage / number of rads as described? Thanks.

We've just dry-lined the walls of our cottage and fitted Celotex in between the battens. I notice that Celotex and others produce a range of aluminium foil 'thermal tape', which it's suggested should be used to tape over any joints in foil-backed-insulation such as the Celotex boards...

I appreciate there may not be a precise answer to this, but so I have an idea before I speak with various heating engineers; We have 7 rads in a 3 bed cottage - the building is double glazed & Celotex'd throughout. Also one bathroom and a kitchen sink. All the rads are cast iron but none of...

At last, someone whose explanation I understood. :-) Many thanks. Steve

Due to space constraints I need to insulate a room using 25mm (rather than 50mm+) Celotex / Kingspan insulation boards. But I only have a small brain and am confused by the different product codes Celotex & Kinsgspan use - seemingly different names for identical products depending on their...

Cheers Richard - your tip with making a line will come in very handy. Steve

I need to hack off a whole load of relatively modern plaster on internal solid brick walls, prior to having a damp course injected and dry-lining. Are there any tricks of the trade worth noting to help me get this done as quickly as possible please? An aerosol product which dissolves...

Not for some time, it's also dripping a little (not very much) oil. Best I get it checked out at a garage I guess.... :-( Thanks, Steve

Thanks both! Regards, Steve

Would we be able to have a combi oil boiler fitted into a purpose-built cupboard in our bathroom? The room itself is downstairs and would be using a balanced flu straight out through a solid brick wall. Thanks, Steve

Thanks to you both - I'm learning a lot! The board I've been looking into is the combined Celotex / plasterboard product (PL3000) - basically a combination of Celotex at your desired thickness AND a 12.5mm plasterboard, which cuts down installation time as only a single board needs to be...

Thanks for clearing that up about the membrane. I take your point about the 50mm, but if Celotex is as good as they claim ('twice as efficient as traditional insulation') do you not think we could get away with their 25mm size (2 x 25=50 and all that). Cheers, Steve

The solid-brick (no cavity) house we've just bought currently has no insulation on its external walls - something we'd like to change. After research elsewhere online and in this forum I thought we'd dot & dab 25mm Celotex PL3000 (the Celotex that's combined with 12.5 mm plasterboard) to...

I've certainly been happy with Grant in the past, but as far as I can tell we're looking at £1363 inc. for a 90,000 BTU Thermsaver Combi and around £1800 inc for the Vortex. That's around 30% more for Grant combi? Thanks for the reply though. Steve