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So this morning the alarm went into limp mode - couldn't set it, couldn't unset it. Box basically just a plastic object on the wall. Phoned them up, the guy came back today, said it's now a legal requirement for all modern alarms to go into "service mode". We paid him £55 to put our alarm...

No I don't - I assume I get the guy who installed it back?

Had a Veritas 8 installed in Feb 2023 and had zone 5 (garage) set to "chime" whenever the door was opened (it does this when the alarm isn't set which is great). A year to the day after the installation, I opened the house front door and got a two tone chime (the same as we get for the garage...

Is anyone else familiar with the concept of "knocking the nibs off" of roof tiles to get them to "sit flush"? If so, how do the tiles lock onto the battens?

Marley tiles.

Yeah he isn't interested. I'd go legal on him but my wife (who sourced him on Facebook) tells me he comes from a very large family who post videos on there where they are openly doing bad things and I don't really want to wake up to find my car torched. Sometimes it's better to withdraw and...

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We recently had a new roof and had a tile slip within three months of it being installed (previous roof was up there 80+ years and no problems, guess modern roofing standards/techniques have changed for the worst). We've found a lovely, honest bloke who is going to lift, reseat and nail every...

They are Marley tiles and bloody heavy things, there were some left behind which the guy told us we could keep and I could only carry three of them at a time. And apologies for my "roofers eh" comment - I shouldn't crudely generalise that all roofers are cowboys and I have edited my original post.

We had a new roof fitted in March and a tile has slipped. The batten holding it was short of the rafter. The original roofer isn't interested in fixing. Is it possible (please humour me) to have the tiles permanently fixed to the battens as opposed to simply being hung on the battens via the...

Panic over, guy came back, flashed the chimney and reseated the tiles. Job's a good 'un :) Thanks for all your input, much appreciated.

thats the original, I zoomed in the first pic to highlight the area - everything else is fine with the work

Yes, the scaffolding aligns perfectly with the ridge tiles :p They have some bits to finish off tomorrow at the front of the property but this is the rear.

Hello, in the process of having a new roof fitted and we spotted this, any thoughts (plus, is the flashing ok?): Many thanks!

Hello, I've had enough of the last two days, I'm in the market for a properly fitted air con unit (one unit, one outdoor fan thingy) - we're not talking about the portable ones with a hose you have to stick out of the window, this will be something fitted to the wall. Any guidance on the kinds...

Ok, everything at rest, wife turned the hot tap on in the bathroom and the far left pipe gets hot quite quickly - so we have a knackered diverter valve? I'm a layman, what does the diverter valve do? (Lesson 1 for me in basic plumbing) :D EDIT: is there a test I can do? If I turn the heating...

Thank you both for your time, much appreciated. None of the taps are providing "hot" water, just tepid and the boiler was serviced in April. I don't know if this is relevant but we had the mixer taps in the kitchen replaced about a week ago which necessitated turning off the water at the...

Hello, Apologies if this is a stupid question, there's a bit of a story to this. So, back in April I noticed that our hot water was temperamental, you could draw some at 10a.m and it would be fine, at 11a.m it would heat up briefly before running cold. I looked at the LCD display when this...

Hello, I'd rather take the advice of professionals here than wade through reviews on Amazon (which may or may not be fake). We've got a couple of foxes around here who my wife feeds and she wants me to set up a couple of cameras on our summerhouse to get footage of them playing in the garden...

So it's not mains pressure related? And can it be sporadic? Only my wife drew some water lunchtime and the temperature was fine and now the "0,7 bar" flashing message has gone?