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This is a follow up to my post a couple of days ago about an Ovo engineer raising an AR on my meter box for the consumer side pipework exiting through the top of the box, to which several forum members commented on - many thanks! I've since shown the photo of the installation to another meter...

Hi! I've had a rental property (I'm the landlord) with a gas boiler for over ten years now, and it's had a gas safety test and CP12 issued every year, from multiple different gas safe engineers, none of whom have ever registered any problems/issues. It's just had a smart meter fitted by Ovo at...

My next door neighbor has had a single skin, 2m high block wall built between our gardens. I'm somewhat concerned about the structural soundness of it, considering that our garden is about half a meter lower than theirs. I've had a look at the footings on our side and they go down about 30cm...

I hope it's okay to post this here. How much would be "reasonable" for the following work on a 1960's mid terraced 2 bed house? "To replace The bottom row of under felt and battening on the front and back of the house roof fitting eps felt support trays Then re-fitting your tiles. Fitting...

I had a new boiler (a Worcester Greenstar 8000 Life) fitted over the summer (BG). This morning the condensate pipe froze. I've sorted that out and put some extra insulation around it, but I'm worried about the electrical side of things and wondering if I have a wiring issue that needs looking...

Apologies, 'cos this isn't a DIY question, but I thought there would be someone on this forum who would know the answer to my question: I've had a new boiler fitted in a rental property by British Gas. The installation package is supposed to include a Landlords Gas Safety Certificate for the...

I'm replacing my bath basin taps. The new ones have 3/4" fittings, whereas the old ones had 1/2" fittings and tails to match. I don't want to replace the tails, if I can avoid it. Can I get an adapter to convert the 3/4" on the new tap to 1/2" that would be compatible with the existing tails...

I've got a large flat roof that was redone with a fibreglass system about twenty years ago. It's largely sound, but is now showing it's age with some visible cracking/flaking in a few places. Is it possible to get it refurbished in any way, or am I looking at a complete replacement?

Hi all, I'm planning on replacing the old radiator shown in the pic below and have a couple of dumb newbie questions that I hope you can help me with. The first is on dimensions. The old rad is 1350mm by 690mm, measured across the radiator panel. The replacement I'm looking at is this one...

Rookie question: I'm decorating and taking the opportunity to replace and old radiator with a new one. I know how to shut down the lockshield and TRV so I can remove the old one without draining the system, BUT I would like to blank off the lockshield and TVR whilst I re-decorate behind. (I...

My next door neighbour has a contractor in building him a very long (20m plus) 2m high garden wall from 100mm blocks. I'm a bit concerned that he doesn't seem to be putting *any* support pillars in place. I thought that this would be a requirement? I'm not wanting to cause any trouble but...

As the title says we have a heating system based on a Worcester 35CDi II combi and have just noticed warm radiators after heavy use of the shower this morning (we have guests staying!) There's no noticeable lowering of the hot water temperature and heating is set to off, but all rads valves...

Hi! This weekend my son had a problem with a leaking tap tail in his bathroom. I "fixed" it by replacing the entire tap and tails (the whole lot was old and grotty) but I also had some issues with the isolation vales so ended up replacing those too. To do that I drained the system; turned the...

I have a dripping shower bar that I think is a cheap ABS model (see photo, it was fitted new just before we bought the house 3 years ago, but I have no documentation for it.) Are spare valve cartridges available for these and if so is it worth repairing or should I just replace the whole unit...

Can I connect a 1/2" BSP fitting on a flexible hose (for a cistern) directly to an isolation valve that was connected to a fixed pipe via a 15mm compression fitting? Will it work without leaks/last? I know I could do it by leaving a short length of 15mm pipe in place and using a 15mm to...

I've just discovered a problem with a very old 22mm plastic overflow pipe on our central heating tank. I need to add a short additional section using straight and elbow joins, but I can only find Flowplast 21.5mm in Screwfix. Is it possible to get 22mm pipe and connectors as it's not really...

Hi! I'm hoping someone can recommend the best way of fixing a leak on the flexible connector shown in the photo. This is an old '60s house and the fittings on the photo were in place when we bought it so I have no idea how old they are. I'm also struggling to work out how many pieces of...

My son has an Ideal Elan 2 in his house, fitted by previous owner around 1987 which has just stopped working and I'm trying to find out a bit more about it to decide if it's worth repairing. It's a 40kBTU balanced flue model, so I think it must be an RS240. Does anyone know how I can confirm...

I've recently had a maintenance engineer call out for my boiler which was kettling, banging and venting when running hot water. The issue was sludge and magnetite in the hot water heat exchanger. (I have a magnaclean but this was only fitted three years ago and the system is very old with a...

I want to replace the chrome overflow fitting on my bath with a shiny new one and thought it would be really easy, so I bought this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/bath-waste-with-chrome-plug-16-chain/32944 only to find that the plastic pipe that goes into the waste is a smaller diameter and...