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    Radiator on - even though radiators turned off at the boiler

    Sorry for the delay in replying guys. The pipes leading to the boiler drop into the boiler from the top and the boiler has a flue to the rear. We chose the boiler we have so it would be as neat and tidy in the kitchen as possible. My brother came around for a BBQ on the BH weekend just gone...
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    Radiator on - even though radiators turned off at the boiler

    I'll come back to you guys in 7 days time as I fly to Italy at 6am tomorrow morning - I will definitely come back to you both and thank you for replying.
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    Radiator on - even though radiators turned off at the boiler

    Just checked the two radiators in the bedroom and they are warm to the touch - not hot, just slightly warm.
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    Radiator on - even though radiators turned off at the boiler

    [We have a Glow-worm Flexicom 24CX combi boiler.] I have a situation whereby all radiators were coming on in this hot weather, despite the overall temperature of the house being well above the minimum set on the thermostat. So I turned the thermostatic valve on the kitchen radiator off and I...
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    Waste pipe from shower (and possibly hand basin) next door

    Can you explain what you mean. I will take y and grab a photo when they are not in.
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    Waste pipe from shower (and possibly hand basin) next door

    We have new neighbours next door and the guy who lives next door but one away, who is a heating engineer, has taken out the bath and fitted a shower for them. We live in a row of 4 cottages and at the rear of the cottages, there is a building that used to be stables and has been converted into...
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    What oil to make oak flooring look glossy and shiny?

    I spoke to a guy this morning at a wood merchants in town and he said to go for Satin finish Hardwax oil as Gloss is too glossy. He said if you go to the Middle East that's how they do it still and it looks really old fashioned. Now we have quite dark oak flooring as it's been stained with a...
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    What oil to make oak flooring look glossy and shiny?

    I want to make the oak flooring look as sleek and glossy and shiny as I can - but without using varnish or lacquer. Can this be achieved (or almost achieved) by using coats of oil and which oil will help me achieve this? Thanks in advance. EDIT: ____ After some Googling I cane up with...
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    Well the last time the floorer tested the floor it was 3% moisture in some areas, 4% moisture in other areas. Basically it is going to have to be a suck it and see situation with the Elastilon. If we do get the floor boards rising again in the future then we will just rip up the whole floor, DPM...
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    As I say he is a proper floorer and he did recommend we DPM the whole floor. Unfortunately it is just not practical for us to do that. We would have to go and live in someone else's house while the floor was drying out. And that's just not possible. We have sent a cheque for £75 and we will see...
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    No to be very fair he is a proper floorer and despite the described comedy of errors, he is actually quite a nice bloke and not a monkey as rather unfairly described by freddymercurystwin. Admittedly I get the impression he is probably a commercial floorer rather than a domestic floorer and he...
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    What I'm getting at is - throw a price up in the air. Let's assume I feel obligated to pay him something (because my wife works with his wife etc), what would you suggest is a fair figure I could look him in the eye with? Even though he's messed us about and he feels messed about by us, what...
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    Well with the benefit of eagle eye hindsight that may well be the case, but can I have your opinion on what he has billed us for please - is it a fair price of him to be asking?
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    Floorers please - is this invoice for partial work fair.....

    A work acquaintance gave us a quote of £200 to lay approx 7-8sq metres of solid oak flooring - we'll say 10sq metres to be generous, I may be underestimating. [EDIT 27/03: I think I have underestimated slightly and in actual fact it's approx 9-10sq metres he would have laid.] We have a...
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    Liquid DPM applied to Plywood, will it crack as wood expands

    I've got some thick marine-type plywood that's going to be screwed to the joists of a shed base. It is quite thick but I don't want any moisture getting through the plywood to the shed base.
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    What's the moisture tolerance for 'elasticated' glue.....

    Yeah the extension will be okay, I haven't got any problems with that. It's the main house where the damp issue is. Only in front of the fire though, the further you go back in the room there's hardly any moisture issues at all. Laybond L19 and Sikabond T54 both seem to be flexible so I'm going...
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    Can anyone recommend a cheap spreadable glue.....

    Well I am lining the inbetween of the joists with some Knauf Rock Mineral Wool slabs so I cannot leave them exposed to the elements. I have had the plywood indoors in the house for a week drying out. Surely if I employ some sort of heat in the shed in the form of a Thermotube heater for example...
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    What's the moisture tolerance for 'elasticated' glue.....

    Surely if you have part of a floor which is glued with rigid adhesive next to a floating floor, if there are moisture issues then the rigid floor is never going to move into an expansion gap for the very reason that it's fixed? If the floating floor expands and moves towards the rigid part of...
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    What's the moisture tolerance for 'elasticated' glue.....

    Basically his advice was that he's given us his advice and recommendation, and he's told when he thinks we should do - as long as we are aware etc. His decision is to glue the floor down with flexible adhesive and I know from research that this is one of the methods for solid oak flooring...
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    What's the moisture tolerance for 'elasticated' glue.....

    Just looked at the label and you're not joking! Now I am get getting concerned because it looks like the floorer doesn't know what the eff he's doing. I wouldn't expect a floorer to tell me how to provide insurance, so I can't go back tot the floorer and say "excuse me mate, I know you're a...
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