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I have moved in to my gf's house and her front door needs adjusting. The top is catching on the external frame. At first I thought the hinges had covers on but these don't seem to want to come off. I was hoping someone on here knows how to adjust the door There looks like an alan key hole...

Hi, I have a septic tank and I found out my rain water and foul mix and end up in the same tank/drains. This has always been the case since I bought the property 7 years ago and since the drains were put in when the property was built. I've heard they shouldn't mix, however I bought the house...

I live in an old house with stone walls. My plaseterer dot and dabbed the plasterboard on the wall. For some time I thought they were dam spots. I have put my fire on and dehumidifier and doesnt help that much. I now think that the salts/minerals are being absorbed from the stone through the dot...

I need a new electric shower and I am uncertain if it is a 8 or 9Wwh. There are no markings on the shower etc and the shower model comes in both. How do I know what Kwh the cable will take? Obviously I dont want to put in a 9Kwh shower for a cable that only takes 8 Thank You

Hi, I hope this is in the right place and someone can help Long story short I am having issues with my neighbour (nothing I started). He has now done something petty. On my out house the rainwater drains in to the gutter and the down pipe has always gone down the back of my outhouse and flows...

Hi, my central heating used to run off the back boiler in my multifuel stove. I have now upgraded my central heating and the stove boiler has been disconnected, all pipework removed. However i will be still using my butner stove from time to time to heat the room. Am i ok to operate the stove as...

Hi I have a multistove burner with a back boiler. I think I may have a problem with the back boiler absorbing heat from the fire. If the fire is roaring the central heating does get nice and hot, very hot in some cases, which is nice and fine. However when I do an over night burn or...

Hi I am thinking of upgrading my central heating system as I hate waking up to a cold house, especially in winter. Currently I have a Evergreen Holly ST1017 which heats my hot water tank and my central heating, eventually, it takes a while to warm the central heating. The back boiler is...

Hi my house consists of stone walls as it was built in approx 1890. I have had a pam membrane damp proof course done up to 1m all around the living room. Since then the walls have been plastered and painted with no problems. In the heavy rain and severe cold we had in the UK, all the walls...

Hi all I have a multifuel burner 16kw output i think, 2 medium single and 1 small single radiator upstairs. 1 large, 2 small dingle and a small double radiator downstairs. When I have the fire on and no pump on the radiators upstairs get hot as does the hot water tank. When I turn the pump...

Hi I have a back boiler multi burner stove. I have been bleeding the system for ever and sometimes air comes out and other times it doesnt.The system doesnt sound like it has air in either. Usually when I have the boiler on max then after it cools the next day I bleed the radiators above...

Hi When I have my multi burner stove on at a high temperature the water gets hot and circulates upstairs via a gravity feed (Pipe 1 in the attached image, this pipe gets really hot, this is fine. I turn the pump on (P) in my image attached, and the water is circulated through my house, this...

Hi I am thinking of buying a new back boiler. I have noticed there are some back boilers with 2 pipe connections at the back and others with 4. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between 2 and 4 connections Thanks

Hi I have a back boiler stove With 2 pipe connections at the back. Is the top pipe connector for the hot water outflow and the bottom for the colder water return from the heating system? Should the water pump be taking hot water out of the boiler to upstairs or pumping returned water...

Hi I have just bought a house with a stove back boiler. After lighting it up and turning on the water pump, the radiators warm up to just above room temp and the hot water tank is the same or colder. The copper pipes from the back boiler just get luke warm. Should the water be pumped...

hi I have recently bought a house and it has a multifuel burner with a back boiler. I fired it up the other day on a warmish day and well after 2 hours the radiators were warm, just warm, and the hot water taps were churning out stone cold water. Surely this cant be right The...