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    Blown plaster/cracked brick work?

    Hey there, I'm visiting my parents' place at the moment and noticed a crack in the plasterwork in one of the bedrooms. It runs from under the window in there all the way to the floor. It's vertical (at 90 deg to the window), but does go horizontal for a short distance. Very much like this...
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    Insulation thickness between joists under ground floor

    Hi there! My house is 1950s-ish and I've got a large void under the ground floor. At present, I've got 50mm of sheeps wool insulation between the joists here, but having just been reading up on this, I see that this is far from adequate. However, there seems to be no consensus on exactly how...
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    Leaking CH circulation pump (knackered flange?)

    Hello! I've got a Baxi 105e combi boiler which is leaking from the circulation pump (Grundfos jobby). Whilst it does look easy to do myself, access to it looks like I'd cut my fingers to ribbons. Does anyone know how much I'd be looking at to get a CH engineer/plumber in to replace the flange on...
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    Insulation above plasterboard ceiling (second floor)

    Hi there, I'm re-plasterboarding a ceiling. Directly above this is the roof. The house design is somewhat odd, in that the roof comes down about six inches from where the plasterboard will be. As such, I'm not sure what the building regs are on if I can put roll insulation here. Any thoughts...
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    AMX ENV-VST-C wiring

    Hi, I'm looking at using an AMX ENV-VST-C in place of an existing 2 channel heating timer/controller. At the moment, the wiring is a channel each to CH and HW. If I'm understanding this right, the document at http://www.amx.com//techdocs/ENV-VST-C.OperationReferenceGuide.pdf (PDF...
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