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Our new house has a fully boarded loft with insulation laid over the boards. We’d like to store things up there without compressing the insulation. I’ve seen loft legs are a common solution if you’ve got joists under the insulation. Given we have boards underneath, are there any other options...

Hi, Today I drained my open vented heating system to change a leaking radiator valve. The system appears to have fully drained - all radiator valves are opened upstairs and downstairs, and the draining water has stopped. The header tank is still full. Research suggests this means my cold feed...

I need to replace a broken fill valve, but I can't access the nuts at the rear of the toilet. A flexible hose disappears inside a relatively small hole and I can just see the nut if I shove a camera under there: Looking in the top of the toilet, there's nothing that suggests I should...

Hi, Our conservatory guttering is connected via a downpipe to a water butt. Currently, if this overflows it simply spills out onto the concrete outside our conservatory and kitchen. There is no drain outside this part of the house. All the downpipes on our main roof guttering go into our...

Hi guys, I fitted my first set of plasterboard coving recently. My corners weren't great, but I used additional coving adhesive to hide my novice handiwork. I caulked the edges of the coving to fill any remaining gaps and started painting it (normal white emulsion). However, after the...

Hi there, I have a Potterton Performa 24 combi boiler. I have recently drained the system to replace my automatic air vent and to fix a leaking joint (where my CH flow pipe leaves my boiler). Having just refilled the system and bled the rads, I notice now that the boiler flame only...

Hi everyone, I recently drained and refilled my sealed, combi-boiler system. I bled the radiators but did nothing to the boiler. It has an automatic air vent, which I think is open (it is a little raised, seems to possibly bubble a bit). This morning, the boiler started making some...