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I have a lined chimney and am trying to remove the cowl from the pot. However it seems to be sealed to the lining - either it is sealed of the tar build up has stuck the cowl to the lining. If i pull really hard I can feel the whole lining shift. Is the cowl normally sealed the lining? And if so...

I have a stone cottage and the surround for the fire place is all stone, coursed but rough with deep pockets. It needs softening up but I also want to keep the rustic nature of it. I was thinking of a lime render but the stone work is already emulsioned. So I'm considering pointing the deep...

I have an old cottage and I want to put a porch on the front. Building regs don't apply because I'm leaving the original front door in place. The cottage is a purple sandstone and I want to find the same for the porch. I asked at a quarry and was told I have to build a block support wall to then...

I have an open gravity fed hot water system. The water is heated in a back boiler attached to a multifuel stove. The problem I'm having is air trapping in the pump and either stopping the convection when the pump is off or stopping the pump when it's running. There does seem to be a load of air...

I have a back boiler on solid fuel stove. It does a good job of heating my water cylinder but I want to take a spur off to feed rads. Question is when do I take it from my best guess would be after the flow into the cylinder a few inches up on the vent pipe? It's going to be messy so want to get...

Hi, This looked easy when I started but it has turned into a bit of a nightmare. Having gutted my house I have replumbed it all and everything is working great except the back boiler on my solid fuel stove. Having let water into the system I light the fire. The boiler on the back...

Hi Have an old cottage I've gutted and am getting on with the plumbing now. I'm trying to work out where to site the pump in the system to drive the water secondary heating the cylinder and also move the heated water around the rads. My guess is to put it where the water returning from the...

Hi, have got to the bathroom stage of my renovation now and trying to work out the piping. Can I run a waste pipe from the toilet and connect bath, sink and shower all to this outgoing pipe, or are there any regs that say they have to be separate? Cheers

Hi, on the internals of extension/gutting of small cottage and trying to find out whether it is possible to have two heat sources on one system - one would be a back boiler on a solid fuel stove the other proposed heat source being an oil fired boiler for convenience. Advice I have received so...

Hi first poster here, have found the forums very helpful while doing my extension but not having much luck finding an answer to this problem. I have laid the mass concrete on my kitchen floor (over hardcore, dpm, 100insulation, DPM (extra for radon)) now I have to do the tricky bit of laying...