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yes, my initial concern was restricting airflow and compromising efficiency. Interestingly the suppliers of the heat tell me the manufacturer has no issue with them and they don’t compromise the warranty though no figures seem to exist for effects on performance. Interestingly I discovered...

Sorry, that was a typo, the 5500 kWh was since December 12th. The actual bill landed today, closer to 5600 kWh since my confirmed and accurate reading on 12th December, 183 kWh per day according to bulb. It’s usually closer to 50 kWh per day in the cooler months, perhaps a bit higher when really...

No, I read my meter religiously every month and all previous readings and bills are accurate. I have used 509 cubic meters of gas in 30 days, which is about 5500 kWh, a third or more of my usual total annual consumption. Even when I had a substantial 5 bed Victorian house with solid walls and...

yes, absolutely nothing has changed. TRV’s untouched, wall stat set to 21 all day every day (I work from home) and boiler stat set at around 75 percent of maximum.

Has anyone got any experience of these? My boss (I work for a property developer) has asked me to look into them for a couple of new builds currently nearing completion. Neighbours have complained about noise from newly installed Mitsubishi ecodan heat pumps. It’s a very quiet, rural location so...

Just taken my monthly gas reading and shocked to see I have used almost 5500 kWh of gas since this time in November. 190 kWh per day. The month before I was using around 50kwh per day. I appreciate the weather has been cooler but 5500kwh in a single month is insane for a small, reasonably well...

Copper sulphate kills moss but not grass, and you need surprisingly little. It doesn't smell like a festival toilet either. A couple of tablespoons in a watering can once a quarter will prevent moss from regrowing.

Had a similar issue in my last property. I tried to drill the concrete posts and bolt extensions to them, but it was very difficult and looked peculiar. In the end I used timber posts notched to suit the top two arris rails but extend above the existing fence. These were screwed to the arris...

The header tank is in the loft. I have not yet had an opportunity to inspect it but will certainly do so the day we get the keys. If it's sludgy I'll do as you suggest via the cold bath tap or syphon it empty, might be able to suck a fair amount of crud off the bottom with the end of a hose...

Thankyou. Thought I was perhaps being over cautious. Will give the thing a good scalding hot overnight soak and flush through the stale water a couple of times, just because I don't fancy using stuff that's been sitting around for the best part of a year! This is assuming the system actually...

I am about to complete the purchase of a property with a traditional open vent / copper cylinder hot water system. The property has been vacant for at least nine months and I am slightly concerned that in that time the HW system may have become a breeding ground for all sorts of stuff! Would it...

What about a 75cm wide built in oven? Would minimise the size of the filler strips required. Would work with a hob of the same size, or a 60cm hob if the extractor and cupboards above make a wider hob difficult.

Something very wrong... virtually all machines these days are cold rinse, regardless of wash temperature clothes should not come out warm, certainly not hot...

Capacity is for dry laundry. 7kg is a fairly hefty load, as long as you're sensible and don't stuff the drum to the max you are unlikely to overload it. People forget that clothes need room to move and often stuff machines to bursting point?..

Thanks! Stocked up on Elastoplast for the skinned knuckles and deep heat for the pulled back trying to get at the bloody thing!

Ah ok- didn't know these were a thing! Pretty sure I don't have one, the house is ex rental, no money been spent in about 30 years so very basic- combi sited where old cylinder once was, a maze of plumbing, capped off pipes etc. Still worth checking as you suggest. Have just done so- zero flow...

Sorry just saw the first part of your reply. So you are suggesting cold water from the shower valve could be flowing back along the hot water pipes to other outlets? I guess it could, I have no idea what type of shower valve I have but it seems odd that this would fail just when my boiler was...

No heat is escaping to the central heating circuit, the flow and return pipes are both stone cold. The DHW flow from the boiler is only lukewarm. The boiler was firing continuously which is why I was concerned- the heat doesn't seem to be going anywhere! Now the boiler is cutting in and out so...

Sorry I'm not sure I fully understand. At the moment it doesn't matter if im running the bath tap, the kitchen tap or shower the boiler is only supplying luke warm water. I realise the shower valve could somehow have become unbalanced (I hope not, it's tiled in and inaccessible!) but my other...

Some further advice needed please! Just fitted the new diverter valve stem, plungers and washers etc which has resolved the leak. However the kit included a very small washer which was not present on the one removed. I fitted it around the valve stem between the spring and the black valve cap...