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The front of my house is tile slung. I'm looking to remove the tiles and battens. Lay tyvek breathable membrane onto the block work. Then batten with 45x75 treated timber Insulate between battens with 75mm celotex then clad with western red cedar. My question is will it condensate...

Ok, My parents have a semi detatched house with a shared chimney. The chinmey is divided up into 8. 4 for them and 4 for the neighbours. (front room, back room, front bedroom, back bedroom). The neighbours have had all of their fire places removed. My parents only use one that is a...

Hi, I need to size a inline fan. I have a log burning stove in the lounge, the room at the back of the house is cold. I want to use 100mm insulated ducting and vent some of the hot air into the other room. How do i size the fan, if its to big it will remove to much of the hot air, to...

I have three outside lights and a PIR ( or maybe a busk controller) It is all controlled by an old smiths sensor switch. I'm no electrician but I know the basics. I will probably get my sparky to carry out the work. What can I replace the controller with. It sits on a double socket box...

We havnt received the certificate of lawfulness for a loft conversion we are about to start at our house. The council say they will issue it in due course. We are 4 weeks into the 8 week wait Builders etc are booked in.. Do we start without it or should we wait.

I have a problem with a patio pointing job we took on a few years back. First some history. It’s a big (expensive) house in Handscross, west sussex. The house and patio is around 15 years old. The entire sides and rear of the property is made up of 600x600 riven edge slabs. The slabs are...

OK i am changing some glass units which are externally beaded and have a rubber gasket on the inside. The gaskets have shrunk and i want to change some of them. I have searched the internet looking for somthing, but have found nothing. i have tried to attach a picture of the profile that...

The above machine is showing the following error lights: Stain Removal light - Green flashing Extra Rinse - Green Flashing Door lock - Red Flashing Any ideas what it could be?

Where can i get a supply only price from? Ive saerched the net, but with no luck. Im based in West Sussex. The base is 5m x 2.3m

I have a 1/2" BSP brass fitting (male) that is going to be screwed into a 1/2" BSP plastic socket (female). Do i need and PTFE or paste?

I have been asked to look at a couple of walls which have heavy staining and some paint pealing. There are run marks coming from above the lead. The painter has had a specialist from the paint manufacture come out to look at it and they have come to the decision that the moisture in the...

Ok, Im trying to sort out a few plumbing/heating issues within my house. Im getting a new boiler fitted in the next couple of weeks. Still not decided on which one but looking towards the Remeha Advanta 35c ( see seperate post) //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=236108 Another...

I am currently looking into changing my combi boiler. Its been nothing but trouble since the day it was installed (around 7 years ago). Halstead high ace!!! It continuously brakes down and im fed up of throwing money at it. I have had some quotes from a local plumber i know and was just...

Hi i have a grundfos APO54 fitted, It seems to be tripping on its internal overload cut out. What can i check to rectify? Is it a pump fault (1 yr old) or a flow fault?

Is this possible? I was talking to a customer the other day. He has just had a new bathroom fitted. He said the plasterers skimmed straight on top of the ceramic tiles. How does it bond. Surely it will all fall off. Anyone hear or done it before.

I currently have converted a barn/garage into a usable room. The internal walls were insulated and plaster boarded and sit on the origonal brick wall. (around 5 cources high) Since it has been finished the brick walls have been growing a white furr on the bottom two cource (below damp...

Ok i have just carried out a small barn conversion into a hobby room. The origonal dwarf brick wall has now started growing white fur on the inside. It only seems two be in two places and is below the damp cource. All the brick was treated with a concrete/brick hardener from wickes. I...

Everything else works ok. Anything that i can check?

So how do you do it? Some say score, some say don't. Some say steam, some say don't Some say to just spray water on the walls. Ive got a large bungalow to strip. Concrete floors so luckly it can get messy. Your views please.

OK 3/4 of the way down my garden the lawn has a dip in it 2m round and around 100mm deep. Over the years i have slowly sanded the area to bring it back up to lawn level, this works well, then a few months later its sunken again. Could this be a soak away under the lawn? and what do i do to...