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I have a Worcester Greenstar 24i junior boiler with a wireless room thermostat. The room thermostat has stopped working and is displaying "E1". The manaual said that the sensing unit needs to be replaced. The boiler is working fine for hot water and the programme function is still working...

Hi all, We have an old cottage which has rounghly rendered walls in the lounge. There are no straight walls and I could not fit skirting board to it which is why we had carpet fitted. The carpet is getting old and with two little ones it is getting stained. My wife now wants a wooden...

Thanks for your help. Can anyone sort out some sunshine for me to work in at the weekend too? 8)

Hi, I am putting up a picket style fence this weekend. I am using 100mm x 100mm posts. I want the fence to be a metre tall and have ordered 1.5 metre posts allowing 500mm under the surface. I am using postmix to secure them. Will the 500mm underground be enough? I was working on...

OK. Thanks for your reply. More digging for me then!!

Hi, I have an old outside tap that consists of a spur from the mains water pipe that is old black alkathine pipe. I want to get rid of it as we are knocking down the wall it was on to make a bigger area for turning the car round. I have dug down to try and find where it connects to the...

Thanks for that Charnwood. Very helpful and good use of the word codswallop! Sorry for being thick but... This is the one I want and will be going to plumbers merchant to get one...

Hi, I am putting a Belfast sink into my uility room supported on two reclaimed brick pillars. We don’t want to have an ugly plastic trap and waste pipe underneath, but I can only find 32mm chrome botlle traps and I need a 40mm one. Anyone have any suggestions? Also the original waste...

Hi We have just had our laundry room re-built and I am going to put the washing machine and a sink back in there. Space is a bit tight and I was hoping to use 32mm waste pipe. I'm sure this will be fine for the sink, but what about the washing machine? I was going to use a trap with a...

The earth behid the wall is about 6 foot. The land belongs to somebody else so cant touch it. Sorry dont have a drawing. It has always been a utility room, but was more of a lean to temporary construction before. We never had an issue with damp before, but my builder said that's what he'd...

No the retaining wall was existing I didnt build it.

Hi all, I have a retaining wall at the side of my house that is now going to be part of our utility room. My builder has built the wall up higher and put the roof on. He suggested painting the whole retaining wall in bitumen paint before putting up battons and plaster boarding it. I have...

I won't be re-rendering it personally, but I will check with the builder what he is using. Thanks for your advice. I postponed hacking it off until I could book him in to re-render it. So this weekend I will mostly be up a ladder hacking away at the side of my house. Didn't want to watch the...

Hi All. My next job on the house is to remove the old exterior render on the side of the house. I am happy doing this with a small sds drill and hammer and chisel, but I am concerned about leaving the wall exposed until I get a builder to re-render it. It is an old house approximately 150...

Thanks. It's always nice to have the anominity of the internet to ask these stupid questions!

We are in the process of knocking down a big block built shed and turning it into a garden. At the end of the shed we had gas bottles as our village does not have mains gas. The pipe to these bottles used to run along the wall of the shed. We have had the bottles re-located temporarily, but...

Hi All, I have a utility room built on the side of my kitchen. It is a long narrow room nestled between the house and a high retaining wall. At either end there is a single skin block wall (both with exterior doors). The roof is made of poly-carbonate sheets. Within the room we currently...

Thanks for the quick replies! The chimney was lined about 2 years ago with a flexible metal liner. Any suggestions on how to stop the condensation coming through?

Hi, I have an old (1860) cornish cottage. The walls seem to be built in a mixture of mud and stone and we have a damp patch near the ceiling in the bedroom. The wall is inside of the gable end. I have considered the following: - There was an old flat roof extension joining on to the...

Right - I have spoke to the bloke we bought the house off who lived there for 30 years or something. He said that there used to be an inglenook fireplace on that wall, but it wasn't used so they built a block wall infront of it to dry line it! I imagine that as with everything else I have...