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    Durapost on brick wall. Any good?

    I can’t tell you exactly but I suspect ground may be over spilling since wall was built
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    Durapost on brick wall. Any good?

    I believe we own wall. Otherwise is a corner house neighbour. The bricks on retaining wall match the ones we have on house.
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    Durapost on brick wall. Any good?

    Ripping wall out and putting concrete sleepers would be too much work. But was advised to put concrete sleepers on wall
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    Durapost on brick wall. Any good?

    I have a retaining wall with a small Amount of overspill of coming from the top . I got some quotes for a new fence. My aim is to get something solid with no overspill of dirt from Other side. He recommended concrete sleepers which he will mortar onto brickwork with duraposts bolted in brick...
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    The advantage of lower range rating is less massive spikes in tempreture, and more eco as it is in lower flow temps longer as it is getting to temp. As a example it’s -2 today and my boiler takes 1 hour to get up to 45 degrees. Once it’s their it stays .
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    Ok basically that’s the same as working out pump speed based on return temp. so you may not need to touch it
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    Does the pump have a auto option? Then it would be set based on the range rating
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    Small roof leak, does plasterboard need changing

    There was some heavy rain last week, and a house we rent got a Small leak 9n master bedroom, we have repaired leak and we immediately with 2 hours of the leak found stopped leak and then put a dehumidifier. A few days later, jus5 a bit of staining, I checked the damp reading using a reader, and...
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    Roof ridge mortar mix? And can you use plasterer

    What mortar mix do you use for the edge of a ridge.. and can you use plastercizer
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    Does a garden wall (attached to a house) need a dpc?

    That’s a the neighbours bit. There’s about 3 courses attached above door to our house
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    Does a garden wall (attached to a house) need a dpc?

    We are replacing a garden wall which for our side gate as it’s getting a bit weak(and wasn’t built well) Does a garden wall attached to a house need a dpc? As you can see I have attached a garden which will be replaced. It currently has a dpc but it cause it to be a bit weaker as that’s where...
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    Worcester Bosch life 8000kw limited range rating 50%

    We have a 40kw life 8000 combi WB. It is meant to have 10x modulation but I think this can only be range rated 50%down (17.5kwh from the 35kwh central heating Any idea why? I might get the “why buy a oversized boiler” well it does 2 showers for a combi very well.
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    Is this window costing me energy. Worth a blind?

    Really? The tempreture of a window is 3-4 degrees colder then a blind.
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    Is this window costing me energy. Worth a blind?

    Any example? Keen to explore this
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    Is this window costing me energy. Worth a blind?

    I have a hallway window which we like. Nice feature of house. However when I’m putting a heat gun around the frame and window, it’s about 11-13 degrees. 15 degrees within 40cm of window and the rest of hallway is about 17. The hallway is 17 degrees. The window is 125x180cm. So quite large. I...
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    Is this window costing me energy. Worth a blind?

    I have a hallway window which we like. Nice feature of house. However when I’m putting a heat gun around the frame and window, it’s about 11-13 degrees. 15 degrees within 40cm of window and the rest of hallway is about 17. The hallway is 17 degrees. The window is 125x180cm. So quite large. I...
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    well I had heating curv very high. So not really
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    I woke up this morning and at heating curve 0.8 it was giving me 34 when outside tempreture was 6. 34 really struggles to heat it up . So I’ve increased curve to 1.2 and it’s asking for 38
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    Why range rate a modulating boiler?

    Today vsmart did 34 at 7 degrees outdoor tempreture. Against the curve. I wonder if something else is happening?
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