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Hello all – some advice welcome. I have an existing kitchen floor – concrete slab, no DPM or insulation. I need to bring it up to a new level which is 18mm higher than its current level. Within that 18mm I would like to: Install a Liquid DPM (as per instruction on forum) Lay a foil to reflect...

Hello all - some welcome advice needed. I'm in the process of a reasonably extensive renovation - I've moved my existing bathroom and have created a new en-suite so have a blank canvass. I'd like to get some quotes from some local plasterers but would like to clarify a couple of questions that...

Hi, I’m in the process of extending the rear of my house and am fitting a wet under floor heating system which will be insulated and covered by 75mm of screed The house is a 1930’s house and the extension is to the existing kitchen which sits on a concrete slab Having done the...

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Hi – I’m looking to lay a limestone floor in my house – most of it will be on concrete, but the hallway is a suspended floor. I’m getting contradicting advice about preparing the substructure for the hallway – the two pieces of advice I’m getting are: Option 1: To remove the existing...

Hi – I posted a previous message about some dodgy damp proofing, but it was a bit garbled and things have moved on.... The builder I contracted to perform the work required for my mortgage retention came round yesterday and confirmed that all of the outside walls had either not been damp...

Hi- Having read some of the posts on this site I am starting to worry – I hope someone can help me. I bought a house in November and my mortgage company put a retention on the mortgage until the damp that was identified during the survey was treated. I hired a building company to complete...

Hi, I've just bought a Honeywell CM927 wireless programmable thermostat and need some advice on how to wire it up to my boiler. Connection to power seems straight forward, but I could use some advice for the thermostat connection to the boiler. The instructions tell me to connect the...

Hi – I have recently bought a house that has a Worcester Bosch 280 Combi boiler fitted and have found that the room thermostat in the hallway is not connected to the boiler. I’ve checked the wiring that the room thermostat is connected to and can confirm that it does not run to the boiler –...

Hi – I have recently bought a house that has a Worcester Bosch 280 Combi boiler fitted and am experiencing an issue with the hot water temperature – if I run the hot tap for a couple of minutes the hot water gets up to temperature and becomes very hot, whilst this is great for washing up, I...