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My daughter has recently moved in to a small 2 bedroom house with a four year old central heating system. The boiler is a Worcester Bosch 24i and all the radiators were replaced as well. I have just removed disabled wet room equipment and re-instated a bath connecting up to the original capped...

Hi. I need my 1930's semi with hip end re-roofing. One roofer has said it's ok to re-use the clay tiles and another says it's best to replace completely and use new concrete tiles. He said after selling the old tiles there's not much difference in cost. ( I haven't had the quote yet.) Who's right?

Builders are supplying and fitting new internal and one external JELD-WEN Advance-line oak veneer doors in my daughters house. I'll be doing the finishing and don't know whether to use a water based high build stain or oil based. The instructions say a "proprietary high build stain or paint...

After 4 decades in the trade I have never known the TV/Video/Audio repair trade to be so bad. I used to repair 7 or 8 items a day and now I'm down to 1 or 2 a week so its time to switch off the soldering iron and pack up. Everyone wants to buy as cheap as possible so prices have eroded every...

Had a new fire surround and marble hearth and back panel installed on Friday and had our existing gas fire fitted at the same time. I agreed a price in the shop for all for pipework to be hidden under the hearth and floor, but the existing gas feed to the chrome tap next to the fireplace was...

I've been a TV engineer for 39 years and have a perplexing problem at home I can't seem to resolve. I'm decorating the lounge and used to have a sky coax cable and aerial coax cable directly through the wall into the sky box and TV.(Philips 26PF7521D/10) No RF leads used. I've decided to fit a...

Can you mix Fernox or Sentinel with an existing inhibitor to maintain strength or do you have to drain and refill? Sinc adding a radiator, I have used Wickes inhibitor in my system and have read on here not to use "own makes"

I have a 29 year old Vulcan Continental boiler on a standard open vented system, and a few years ago a plumber came to service it because the pilot light kept going out. He couldn't get a new part so left it with a 3" pilot light flame and it's been working OK ever since. Last weekend, because...

I have a 27 year old copper hot water cylinder which has never had an immersion heater fitted. The price of gas seems so expensive now I'm thinking of adding an immersion heater. What are the chances of removing the large hexagon bung (at the top) after all this time without damaging the tank?

My new mixer tap for the kitchen comes with flexi hoses. The end that connects to the plumbing has a screw on piece with a washer in it, rather like a metal washing machine hose. Can these be screwed directly on to the isolator valves that I fitted last time I did the kitchen. The isolator...

I have the same problem as other members in that after adding a new radiator downstairs I now have noisy gurgling whooshing sounds in the hot water circuit. Only when on hot water. I have opened the vent by the hot water cylinder on the connections to the spiral inside the tank and only water...