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Hi All We had new window fitted on an upstairs bay window 6 years ago. 6 months later we noticed staining in the downstairs bay ceiling. Then it suddenly got really bad, started dripping and lumps of plaster fell off. We phoned a builder who said that there had been some movement in the bay...

Hi I am replacing my flat felt roof with a fibreglass warm roof. I was initially recommended to use visqueen fully bonded vapour barrier beneath the insulation as it is self adhesive and there is no need to prime the OSB. However, I need 26 meters and it comes in 20m rolls for £198. What...

Hi Does anyone know where you can buy made to measure flat pack (kit) timber windows. I found this website http://www.diywoodwindows.co.uk/ that did provide the window frames already pre machined, seals, all the iron mongery. When I called them they had ceased trading. I have tried a few...

I am going to be replacing the flat roof on my garage with a fiberglass one this summer and I want to install a roof light. I already have a pilkington low-e self cleaning double glazed unit sat in the garage so I was hoping to use this, however I have no frame for it. My plan was to make...

I have bosch logixx dishwasher. When I turn it on, it sounds like a pump is just contantly pulsing. The display on the ouside is blank. The display on the top of the door makes no sense; it has the salt and the rinse aid lights on (though I'm not sure how full it is of either of these) and the 3...

I am on a strict budget and getting a new system boiler. I have bought a Magnaclean twintech and my heating engineer sugested not having a powerflush to keep costs down. He said if I turn off every radiator except one and take it in turns to go through every radiator in the system like this ,it...

I am laying underfloor heating pipes, followed by a sand and cemend screed. I have read that the pipes need to be under pressure whilst the screed is layed and dries. Is this really nesessary. There are no joints under the screed. I will heat the floor up fully and allow to cool before...

I am wanting some advice on Thermal stores. Our old combi boiler has given up the ghost and I understand that this can be replaced with a system boiler in conjunction with a thermal store. My house has no header tank and no space for one so I believe I need an unvented cylinder. I was...

I've just bought a house and in the upstairs front bedroom their is a massive hole in the chimney breast. I want to brick this up so I can decorate. At some point I will want the chinmey breast lining so I can put a real fire downstairs. They sell a few different types of blocks...

I've put underfloor heating in the conservaory so we can use it all year. I am looking at ways of retaining as much heat as possibe. I know its not an easy thing to do and I'm probably going to get loads of people telling me to stick a proper roof on it, but thats outside my skills. It has...