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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Trying to save as much as possible on the cost of a condensing combi oil boiler. Thermsaver seem to be the cheapest I've found so far but, is there a reason for that? And is £1650 really the going rate for a condensing / HE oil combi? I'd welcome being pointed at cheaper, either new or...

Hello! I have an 03 Renault Kangoo 1.5 CDi 70+ van, which has been running fine until recently. From cold it fires up and performance is as good as ever, with that noticeable little boost from the turbo when necessary. However after 20 minutes or so it's as if the engine forgets it has...

Hello, We're renovating our house which currently has no central heating system and because of its rural (non-mains-gas or suitable for LPG tank) position will be having an oil boiler installed. Thanks to contributors on DIYnot I'm now aware of Building Regulations Part L and what...

Hello! This isn't strictly DIY but it's close.... We have a range of jobs on our 'new' house that will need doing by professional tradesmen instead of me. There seem to be a number of web sites around where one can enter details of the job(s) and receive quotes by e-mail...

Hi, I've been offered an old oil combi boiler via a family friend which has ten years of regular servicing by an OFTEC engineer and is made by Grant (am finding out the precise model...). It's only being taken out of service as their village now has gas available so they're switching...

Hello! We have a very old soft-red-brick property which suffers from penetrative (rather than rising) damp. This problem isn't isolated to a leaking pipe, gutter etc. but more of a general 'well, it's very old masonry, what do you expect?' kind of way. On the face of it there's a product...

Hello! We're considering making best use of space by having our new (domestic, internal style) boiler fitted in a bathroom rather than kitchen. In theory is this feasible? I know nothing of regulations when it comes to oil boilers and wondered if having one in a relatively moist environment...