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Does anyone have any views on the likely life of this flat roof? The top black layer is cracking flaking away in places near the edge of the roof, leaving a smooth-ish but weak feeling grey layer which I'm not familiar with. We're not looking to stay more than 3 or 4 years, so would prefer to...

Hi First off, I'm not a RGI, just a homeowner, and I have a return visit booked with Baxi for after the weekend, so I'm not attempting a DIY repair. But because the problem is intermittent and the first visit did not solve the problem, I'd appreciate any advice from those with experience so that...

Hi I've taken a good look at the clearance diagrams, and see clearances of 2m quoted for vertical flues below windows on the same pitched roof, or 600mm clearance around a windrow. But my situation is not explicitly covered. I would like the flue to come out horizontally through the single...

I'm looking to install a 3 door sliding wardrobe, and have a couple of questions. Firstly, can tracks be a butted together easily to fork a longer length, or does flex in the track mean doors can stick a little as they move over the joins? Secondly, is there any way of encouraging...

I have a Texecom Veritas R8 in my house. I would like to move the keypad and wondered how easy this would be and if so in what order the 4 wires connecting the keypad to the control panel should be disconnected and reconnected. eg. If I open the keypad, and inhibit the tamper alarm by typing...

Have just lifted a floorboard to find a very badly dented central heating pipe. It is intact, not green, not leaking, but has quite a deep, pointed crater about 7mm wide, a few mm deep, into one side of it. Copper looks a bit stretched and thin in places though of course I can't really tell...

Hi Having had bad experiences with lining paper in the past, I am prepared to pay a little more for paste-the-wall paper of good gauge which will not show the seams readily. Does anyone have any recommendations about Wall Doctor paper (well reviewed in Homebase and B&Q) versus Trend...

Hi Is it necessary to remove as much of the old paste as possible prior to applying Gardz, or so long as the surface is flat etc Gardz can just go on? If the pste does need to be taken off, is it best to use homegrown methods such as fabric conditioner, or something specialist like DIF? (NB...

Hi We have a 2-way shower with a rain head and a shower handset. If we turn on the rain head from scratch, no water flows through. We need to turn on the handset first, get water flowing through that, and then swithc to the rain head, and then water flows through it. We believe this...

Hi My boiler is in the garage and last winter the frost stat kicked in more than I'd have liked. Now I know it's necessary, but I'd like to reduce this as much as possible. The garage is almost triple length with open eaves, so I was wondering how aggressively I could insulate the boiler...

Hi all My shower room has a fake wall for the shower equipment, whose surface lines up level with the window recess shown on the left. In the original bathroom the thin white tiles had cracked where the frame met the window. The frame had been covered in thin board, and the window recess in...

Hi I have almost prepared my sand/cement wall for tiling by hacking off the old skim coat. The sand/cement seems very well attached for 99% of the area. There are now a couple of problem areas, shown below. The first picture is above the door. It is two very solid wooden battens covered by...

I have 30x60 tiles that weight 20.5Kg per square metre, so with adhesive and grout this will breach the recommended limit of 20 for plastered surfaces. My wall is sand/cement base with a mixture of plaster finishing coat and easifill (ahem). I have scraped off a lot of the most unsound...

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