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Our house has solid brick walls with rendering outside. The rendering is in excellent condition, as it the internal plaster. I wish to insulate hallway wall as it gets freezing, using Wickes's Knauf XPS insulated plasterboard which has extruded polystyrene insulation. I wish to use this board...

We have a kitcehn extractor hood that vents straight through the wall to the outside. I have fitted a cowl with flaps on the outside and a "flap valve" in the duct. However, neither works properly. I have seen a variety of cowls and hoods, wonder whether anyone can recommend an effective...

I have a 1950s pre-fabricated garage with a corrugated asbestos roof. The roof appears to be structurally sound, but seems to have become porous in places and I get a large amount of water dripping in some areas: some of this may be condensation, although I cannot be sure. Rather than...

Our central heating boiler is not turning off, irrespective of the setting on the room thermostat. It was working perfectly, but now the boiler continues to run whether the display on the thermostat display says "heat" or not. The thermostat is only a few months old, so I would like to test it...

I have bought some round walls. The case is metal and cantains all of the connectors, but there is no back to them. One light is being fixed to a plasterboard wall, the other to a very solid brick wall. Do I need to use any sort of pattress box with these lights or can I simply screw them...

Do the electrics in a cloakroom with just a sink and toilet need to comply with part p regulations? Some threads on here suggest not and I would like to check before starting to install a new one. Thank you. James.

I plan to fit a new cloakroom with a toilet and wash basin downstairs into a room that does not currently have one. Will I need planning permission or simply to satisfy the building regulations? Regards, James.

I wish to fit a new cloakroom into a room downstairs. It will be quite close to an existing sewer access point. I am considering using a toilet that has a small wash basin incorporated into the cistern lid. There will be an opening window in the room and I am aware that I need the electrics to...

I hope that someone can help. I have drained my heating system to fit a new pump and fill it with cleaner as it is rather inefficient. I have refilled it and bled the rads, the pump, the high-point in the airing cupboard and above the boiler itself. The system is quiet, but the boiler over-heat...

Can anyone help? My hotwater heats properly, but the radiators take a very long time to warm up and rarely get properly hot. They have been bled and the pump is new (the old one failed). If I turn the hotwater off on the timer so that just the heating is on, the radiators heat up quickly...

Last winter, I replaced our worn-out heating pump, but the downstairs radiators have not been heating up properly ever since. All was well with the system originally, but now half of the radiators downstairs will only warm up if I turn off two of the bedroom radiators. Once the downstairs...

Can anyone please help? We have a Potterton Profile 60e. A new pump was fitted a couple of weeks ago as the old one was making an awful din. The heating was fine until the last few days. Now, our heating has started to play up. The hot water works fine, but the radiators do not heat up...