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Hi When we did our extension 10 years ago, we gravelled over part of the garden (with a proper sub base) to enable us to park there. It went over the main waste pipe - roughly 45-70cm down (we live on a hill). If memory serves, it was concreted over at the time, under the sub base. Obviously...

Possibly one that the answer will be 'get an electrician in' but.... My wife would like to put the tumble dryer in the shed. It's only 10m from the house, but the nearest plug (outside) is 18m away, or I can connect directly to the [RCD'd] garage, which with all the ups and downs of hiding the...

Hi I have a conundrum, and I'd love some advice We have rust particles in our cold water. Only the cold water taps of the the two bathroom sinks, and the bath. The hot taps, cisterns, white goods, outside tap, kitchen tap are all not affected. There is no header tank - it's a sealed...

Hi Possibly silly question.... we've got a Worcester 30Cdi classic, and there's only a temp dial for the CH. Is the DHW off that dial, or is it set elsewhere? Can't find it anywhere in the manual Can I turn down the CH temp, without running the risk of getting legionnaires? Many thanks!

I've never heard of them, and a heating engineer has just recommended one. I'd be interested to know if he's trying it on. A bit of background; we have an chalet bungalow, with three different heating networks. One single flow to downstairs, one double flow to upstairs, and underfloor heating...

hi all we suffer - at times - from condensation in the garage. It's a double, single skin, apex roof, no real insulation at all. Wife insists on parking her car in there (been a bit wet recently), and we live in a wooded valley. So at times we get no air flow at all through the garage for days...

evening all confusing one (for me at least). At the moment we have a Labgear LDU604G taking the aerial and splitting it three ways. Just got a FreeSat telly, and unsure where to put the input, and the output to use the satellite on one telly. The instructions are rubbish! Do i put the...

morning not entirely sure this belongs here, but... as a lot of people do, we suffer a bit from condensation. Nowhere near as bad as others, we ventilate, we heat etc. But we live in a bowl shaped valley, surrounded by a wood. There are days when there's no wind, so opening the windows doesn't...

hi all Looking to replace a side garage door with a plan panel wooden door. Nothing too elaborate, looks not that important. So we have a choice of two; both FLB, both Mortice and Tenon. Both 44mm thick. Redwood is £87 + £35 delivery Hemlock is £230 + £35 delivery What does the extra get me...

If I could have some advice from the knowledgeable people of DIYNOT I’d be extremely grateful. We have a converted chalet bungalow – c.1955. The heating up in the loft is fine, the heating in the new kitchen is fine. The heating in the old part of the house, especially the back rooms, isn’t...

Interesting one tonight. Boiler worked fine this morning; heating and water. This evening - 4pm, water came on. At 4.05pm, the Boiler spur tripped in the RCD. I flicked it back up, all okay and boiler came back on. Ten minutes later it tripped again, and even flicking the RCD switch back...

Morning all silly question time I'm afraid. had this boiler almost a year now. Works well (when the EEV doesn't explode...) but slightly confused with it. And the instruction manual is a little lacking. There's no Hot water temp control. Does it rely on the Central heating temp...

morning all just finished our extension, and co-incidentally the house insurance is up for renewal. During the extension, the corner wall was extended (obv!). The building inspector looked at the foundation there and demanded more, due to the added weight or the beam above. So an extra...

Morning all Got a question about screed drying times...seems to be confusion as to how long to wait until we can put the UFH on. It's a normal sand/cement screed, about 18sqm - about 95mm thick The builder says 1inch per week. The heating engineer says 1mm per day. So one is saying...

I have a detached double garage with a pitched roof. It's got a single skin wall , double glazed windows and a large [auto] door. It's situated with two sides surrounded by a 5ft retaining wall, and the other two don't get a lot of wind due to the road location (surrounded on 3 sides by hills)...

Hi Due to the nature of our house plot - at the top of a valley, surrounded on three sides by valley sides and woods - our garage gets condensated in winter. Quite badly. Ventilation is obviously key; try and keep doors and windows open as much as possible, but an obvious security flaw...

We've got sludge in a few downstairs radiators, and I'd like some advice please. At the moment we're undergoing building work, and part of that involves a new boiler etc. There's a couple of rooms downstairs where the previous occupants didn't have the heating on, and as a result I think...

Hi We're half way through a major extension, with a new boiler/HWC etc installed. Some of the old rads were cold in the middle etc; all indications a power flush was needed. We've a new Worcester 37CDi installed. The heating engineer didn't power flush on installing the new boiler, but...

Hi We’re wanting to put in a Water Softener once we’ve extended the kitchen. We live in the Chilterns, so have very hard water. There are the obligatory four of us in a four bed detached, with one bath and two separate showers. Water flow will be ~22 litres per minute (new 32mm pipe...

hi we're having a side extension built, with an extended kitchen and dining area. Due to the sloping nature of the site, there will be a void under the dining area of about 3.4m * 3m with a head height of about 1.65m. I'd like to use this space, and thought about moving the boiler from...