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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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, We could only get luke warm water out of the taps this morning (central heating is fine), the LCD was flashing "0,7 bar", I assume this is related? What does the error indicate? Many thanks for reading. (I've looked in the manual but it just gives a list of codes beginning with F).

Hello, I hope one of you good people can help. We have a Vaillant ecoTec Pro boiler, it's about six years old. Today, for the first time, it's started acting up. By that I mean it's heating the radiators even though the portable thermostat thing that sits down here shows that the temperature...

Hi, I recently bought this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078JRDCP7/ref=psdc_1939544031_t2_B0751GZY1C?tag=diynotcom-21 I installed the hard drive and fired the unit up, all good so far. My first screen is the activation menu. I need to create a new admin password and then create a password...

Hello all, Many moons ago I bought some cameras and a video capture card and installed them here. Cameras on relevant walls, capture card inside my computer, job done. One of the cameras died after about thirteen months (well, the infra reds did) but the other one is still alive and kicking...

We've got one. So a year after contacting Whirlpool to get the product made safe, the guy turns up today.....yayy, great customer service Whirlpool. However, the guy hung around about ten minutes (I wasn't at home otherwise I'd have questioned him). He refused to carry out the work because...

Hi, We have a Mira shower which has recently started running hot and cold. It's over 15 years old and I suspect is simply dying. We had an identical problem in our last property with an electric shower which was less than a year old and was repaired under warranty but in this case I'm...

I emailed my local authority about whether I needed building regs approval to have my roof replaced and received a very ambiguous "yes but certain builders can self-certify the work" so I'm really none the wiser. The one quote I've had stated that for £50 they would self certify the work...

I'm looking at getting somebody to re-roof my property in the next couple of months; it's a mid-terraced 1930's house with a small canopy which will need doing as well. The tiles are the original Brosley(?) and a couple of the nibs are looking flakey so I thought "right, let's get it felted...

Hi, Can anyone identify what these two are? I need to remove one of them and nothing in my limited array of tools will fit. Many thanks!

We have a Baxi Bermuda back boiler that we're having replaced in a couple of months. There's nothing wrong with it apart from the fact that I suspect it's massively inefficient? Anyhow, my wife (bless her) wants to spend my money on a new central heating system. The quote we've had from...

We had a problem about a year ago with our drain which eventually got sorted. Our next door neighbour has just had to call someone out because hers were bunged up (with what the guy said was "cotton wool buds, wet wipes and nappy liners"). Anyone got a quick dummies overview of how drains...

Hi all, I have no idea whether this is heating related or not but I'll start here. We have a Baxi Bermuda back boiler in the front room. Last weekend the pilot light went out so I relit it. It went out again later that day so I relit it again and it's been fine since then. There is...