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So weird one maybe. I have just been watching my boiler (I know its a slow day) and I set my flat for heat demand and my wife was in the kitchen. watching the start up sequence for heating and all is going well, then wife opens tap and hot water demand comes on screen. all good. she closed the...

hi, I have an external wall which is pretty rubbish (very old house) state. the wall isn't structural but the internals are finished and don't need any work. So my plan is to leave the existing wall rather then knock it down and rebuilt. There is room under the buildings overhang to simply...

Hi, we probably had this issue before but we had old wooden patio doors which have now been replaced with 4 Aluminium Patio doors, 2 middle openers with 2 fixed panes. As its winter and we've had heating on, I noticed yesterday the whole bottom of the door set is dripping with water. I'm...

Hi, I laid our yard with grey stone slabs a couple of years ago. And last year I had to jet wash the slabs as they went all green and became very slippy. The same thing has happened again this year. It starts to go green toward the winter, I'm guessing the extra rain and lack of sun light. Is...

hi, just wondering if anyone knows of an mobile phone app or windows software that can show you how best to use a sheet of material. For example if I wanted to make shelves of 600x800 and some at 300x200 and one at 1000x100 I'd like to be able to put that into a program and for it to tell me...

hi, so the guy i'm working with, who is more experienced than me, suggests we build the new floor ontop of the wall plates, whereas I would have used joist hangers on the wall plate to hang individual joists. I see his way would make the job a lot easier, and straight forward. but I wonder if...

so I'm about to order up my finish layers and the thermal calculator shows to use insulated plasterboard. but knowing how annoying insulation and plasterboard is to cut. having them glued together just sounds like a right nightmare. Are the values the same for buying them separately (25mm...

Hi, I have a couple of windows in the house which are fixed not openable and are fitted with single pane glass. I have used aluminium secondary glazing on most of the others normal windows so far. But for these could I just build an internal window to act as a secondary window. Say If just...

hi, I'm looking for a good paint to put on new external wood details things like Gutter boards, windows, and shiplap detail. I spoke to Dulux centre the other day and was recommended their "Quick Dry Opaque" in White. I thought I'd just post here first to see if anyone has used this or has...

is there any allowance for achieving worse that expected (required) u values. for example I'm developing a rather small building, and adding 100mm or more to each side of a solid brick walls will have a great impact on the final usable space in. Same for ceiling height, they are all very low...

hi, I am trying to rebuild a building and I'm getting to the insulation stage. I notice the kingspan u value calculator offers lots of solutions, but all of them come with insulated plasterboard as a final covering. Is it not possible to simply insulate between rafters/joists and finish with...

Hi all, I'm renovating a building at the moment and getting close to the dreaded insulation job. I've done ridged kingspan type before and its a real pleasure, all that measuring, cutting, fitting and then filling the gaps! So I'm wondering what the stance is on spray foam? I don't really see...

Hi, My planned toilet location has had to be shifted (from pointing West to pointing North), this means my perfect location for a hidden cistern is now not directly behind the bog. I'm wondering can I add some waste pipe lengths and elbows to get my hidden position cistern to empty into the...

Hi all, Just thought I'd check out what people normally pay for a new water connection. I want two new connections to my property and my local water company wants £1700 for this, which includes them connecting with a 1 meter trench. I.e they dig up 1 meter to get to my trench. I had a quote...

hi, I entered my planning application for development work a couple of years ago, at the time we were up against a large CIL payment for changing from commercial to residential. This is because the site was vacant. To fix this we removed change of use from that plan, and used the site in its...

Hi, been having some problems with my battery recently so took it to local battery store where they tested it. They were able to tell me it needed a full charge, the battery is rated around 600 and it showed 450, think this is an amp related figure. Anyhow my question is there a way to do this...

hi all, so I'm fitting a rather small & cheap kitchen so I don't really want to fit kitchen doors to the appliances. The option is to go with freestanding Dishwasher, Washing Machine and Fridge. From doing freestanding units in the past you are usually left with a 8cmish gap above the...

so I've been asked to add "A detailed Sustainability Statement is required and this must include a completed 'Energy Strategies' table. This should show how a 20% saving in carbon emissions can be achieved with the use of renewable energy sources." to my planning application. looks like a bit...

hey all, what size cable do I need to go from the actual cooker and hob to the wall socket. The wall socket is already fitted with 10mm from the CU to Switch to socket. but I'm thinking I probably need a more flexible cable (and heat proof?) for the last bit? cheers

Hi, so we have these original sash single pain glazed windows. They feel cold and let in a lot of noise so I've been thinking (usually dangerous). What if i add another single pane behind the original pane wouldn't that be like a cheap man's double glazed window? At the moment there is 22mm of...