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Looking to have Karndean flooring in kitchen. Floor is currently made up of floor boards in original part of house and concrete screed in extension. Its effectively all one room now so need to prep the floor ready for covering. Would it be wise to lay 6mm ply on existing floorboards and...

Can anyone advise where I can get INTERNAL stop ends for 22mm pipe. Was advised to use these to make up spreader pipes for within a cylinder. However, all the merchants I have tried either don't list them or have never heard of them. BES included. Thanks

Has anyone successfully made an effecient fully working heat bank. If so would they like to share details. I really fancy having a go. Have seen a few posts but seems that those made are not quite as they should be.

I need to replace my tired combi but not sure where to turn! Background: Have a 5 bed house with 1 bathroom, one en-suite, downstairs cloakroom, utility room and kitchen. This equates to: 1 bath 2 showers 3 basins 2 sinks washing machine & dishwasher. 7 rads + 2 towel rails upstairs 8...

I have an Ariston 27MFFI. Problem at moment is if I turn on a hot tap, the boiler does not always fire up. To make it work, I have to go to the sink that is right next to the boiler and turn that hot tap on at the same time. Once boiler fires, I turn that tap off and water flows to the other. I...

Hi all I have a 290mm wide cavity wall. Each wall is 4" wide and made of block. About to make an opening of approx 2.5m and insert an RSJ above to support. (Yes BCO is well aware!!) Structural Engineer screwed up slightly so not 100% sure on padstone size to use. The depth is stated as 150mm...

Can anyone tell me is it OK to use concrete lintels as padstones to rest a I section UB on? Just seems lot simpler! If it makes a difference, beam is about 8'x 7"x4". Padstones supposed to be 8"(l)x4"(w)x6"(d). If OK, what mix should I uses to set them on? Does the beam sit on a mortar mix or...

Need some advise on the type of heating system to go for. I bought 2 semi-detached houses and knocked them through to make a detached. One of the semis had a combi boiler, the other had nothing! I've had the whole house running on the combi for the last couple of years but its really not...

Hi everyone. I am moving my soil stack from one end of the house to the other due to bathroom relocation. Want to use original underground connection point so having to run horizontal UG pipe from base of new soil stack position to it. Question is what sort of connection should I make. Just a...

Hi I have an Ariston Genus 27MFFI combi. Recently it has developed a problem where the air pressure switch does not always operate. What will happen is the boiler will light then after a short time, the burner will go out but the fan still spins. Then the boiler will re-light again. This cycle...