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I have the following: - air source heat pump (daikin altherma) - wet underfloor heating (3 zone) downstairs - radiators upstairs - 3 room stats downstairs (heatmiser wired), with a controller box (looks made on site) for ufh - 1 room stat upstairs for the rads (some bonco brand wired) - there...

Hi, We have a newbuild (2010) house, with a detached garage (in a block of garages). We have a door into our garage as it backs onto our garden. I'm planing on converting the half the garage to use as an office, the plan is to install insulated plasterboard, nothing posh, just somewhere to sit...

Hi, I'm building a lean to shed in the garden, it's down the side of the house, so space is at a premium. Currently there is a 9ft high closeboarded fence (facing outwards so the posts and rails and visible from inside the garden). I'm going to build the lean to against that fence. I appreciate...

I've just installed an Engineered oak floor (click loc 14mm) over a concrete subfloor, with a vapour barrier and fibreboard underlay. The subfloor has wet underfloor heating (although I've not had the underfloor heating on since installing). The subfloor had a few areas which needed levelling...

Hi, Looking to lay an engineered wood floor throughout our downstairs (lounge through to kitchen/diner), on a relatively newly built house (2013). It currently has wet underfloor heating with a concrete screen (no idea on depth) throughout, with Tiles in the kitchen area and carpets in the...

We had a spark put some power out to our garage several months ago. He used a spur off the ring main (I wasn't too happy with this). He install two pir led security lights on this circuit. After a couple of months they stopped working (the light up but are really dim), I gave up waiting on the...

Simple question really, we have an L shaped kitchen with laminate worktops joined in the corner, I need to remove one of the base cabinets (the end one 600 wide) and replace with integrated dishwasher and end panel. I was hoping to do this without removing the worktop, but it might prove tricky...

In a kitchen we currently have a frigefreezer running off an unswitched socket, with one of those multi appliance grid switches on the other side of the room which turns the power to the socket on/off. We want to install a dishwasher next to the fridge, but it will need power, there are no other...

Hi, We're currently looking at buying a timber frame house (one of the mass produced Persimmon type homes built approx 10 years ago) - I'm presuming it's timber frame (ie sip panel) construction as that seems to be the way the big builders have worked for the last 10 years. Currently there is a...

So, a bit of background: I own a 1904 cottage with solid stone wall (about 500mm thick). It has french doors from the original building at the rear which would have lead outside, unitl a (really awful) conservatory was built in the 1980s, I believe these doors were originally a window which...

The AAV on my Grant Combi is blocked - so I keep getting air in the system, then it over heats. I've got a replacement AAV, presumably the old one just unscrews and new one screws in (once the system is drained obviously)? Does it need any kind of seal on the thread, or are the washers on the...

Over the last few weeks we've noticed the pressure in our boiler has been rising and the pressure release valve has been dripping. Its been getting worse : I drained off a bowl of water at the weekend and the pressure was down at 1.5 bar. By the evening it was at 1.8 and back to 3 bar by the...

We have just had a large hole cut in our wall between two rooms to take some glass blocks (one is the hallway which has no windows so we want to get light in). The wall is/was concrete blockwork with a scratch and skim coat. Everything I've read about glass blocks suggest that we use lintel...

We're in the process of building an extension - I'm doing some parts myself but getting in trades to do the parts I don't have the skill or knowledge to undertake (which so far seems like quite a lot!). The roofers came and batten and membraned the roof last week and installed several roof...