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Hi all, Hopefully someone can help me with this. I have a 1930's house, which has an attic room (it's barely useable given the ceiling height!), which has a load of low level cupboards built in to the eaves. It's a very cold room, so I'd like to insulate it. I've just had a look at the...

Hi all, I recently installed PIR insulation under the floorboards in my lounge. Hopefully some of the details here might help someone, given there aren't many tradesmen who offer this service (given the time involved, I can see why!). The house is 1930's with a suspended floor and it's about...

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of putting in under-floor insulation and have pulled up a number of the original floor boards to open up the space. There are two areas which are proving to be tricky. The first is where the boards meet the fireplace hearth. When I try and lift the board...

Hi all, I'm decorating our lounge and have come across these two boxes on the wall. One of them is the Virgin cable for the TV and router and the other one looks like an old BT box (the code on the box suggests it is BT). We don't use the BT box, so I was going to rip it out....but what has...

My boiler engineer serviced my boiler yesterday and said that the expansion vessel needed replacing. He ended up placing it on the cupboards above the boiler....which looks like an odd place to my untrained eye! I have a couple of questions: - does the vessel get warm? It is sitting on a...

Hi all, I've just started redecorating a room in my new house and have come across this box on the wall, above the skirting board. I think it's to do with a telephone wire but does anyone know exactly what it is? It has two red "buttons" on the right hand side and a key that fits in the...

I have under floor heating in my kitchen. Last summer I had my boiler replaced and now I want to turn the UFH back on, it doesn't seem to work. I assume that when the boiler was replaced they switched off the UFH and forgot to put it back on? I think the unit that runs the UFH is in this...

I've recently had a new Baxi combi boiler installed. As the photo shows, the old boiler's flue pipe ran through this wooden panel to outside, while a new hole was drilled for the wider flue pipe that came with the Baxi. A flue kit has been added to vent the gases away from the flue outlet, and...

I am looking to put down some outdoor porcelain tiles across a relatively small area - about 5m2. I will be putting down a concrete base and then applying the adhesive on top. I know that the adhesive has to be suitable for outdoor use, but I have a couple of specific questions: - does the...

Any ideas or suggestions are gratefully received! We have a Keston c36 combi boiler which seems to be losing water fairly rapidly. Usually 20 minutes after the heating has gone off an E37 error message flashes which I am told means the water pressure has dropped. It was serviced last week...

I have spent what seems like weeks laying a patio in my garden with 40cmx40cm limestone slabs. I was about to finish when I noticed some of the slabs have already shifted. The mortar is solid and has stuck to the old concrete base but the slab itself hasn't stuck to the mortar. Those that...

I want to lay some limestone slabs in my backgarden. The problem is that the base is concrete (it used to have a bomb shelter on it!) in most places with a small area of very old slabs. I am going to lay my new slabs on this base. I will lay the slabs in a mortar bed but how can I build up...