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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We have an old cottage that has damp in one corner of the dining room. It is a solid wall with no cavity built around 1860ish. The wall that is damp is an exterior wall. Outside there is a 12inc gap and then a 12 foot retaining wall belonging to the farm behind our house. I have no idea...

Hi We have an old Cornish cottage that was built around 1860. The dining room is one of the older parts of the house and it currently has a concrete floor. The floor always feels damp and the rug that we have put down has ended up mouldy underneath. We can now afford to put slate floor...

Hi I have just moved into a house and have some concerns about the electrics. I know a little bit about electrics (not enough to do it myself) so wanted to get it clear in my head what I am asking of an electrician!! One of the MCBs on the consumer unit controls the sockets in the kitchen...