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I'd like to fit a Hive to my Worcester oil combi and pretty familiar with the connections I need to make from the boiler to the Hive, apart from how to bypass/remove/disable the existing programmer, which is a Greenstar Comfort RF. It isn't connected via the ribbon cable, but via contacts with...

We live in an old cottage, built around 1860, so made up of local stone. It was unfortunately rendered at some point. I've had to do some digging recently to open up a drain that had been cleverly cemented over by someone and noticed that the render goes down way beyond current ground levels...

Planning a bathroom refit and looking at lighting options. The ceiling is lathe & plaster. What are our options (if any) to fit recessed lights? Bathroom is upstairs, L&P ceiling, insulation and loft boards in the attic. I can imagine it being a pig to drill the holes for them, but would we need...

Hi, can someone help me out with pipe sizing. I'm planning a new bathroom fitting and just sizing things up and making some checks before I start taking things apart and ordering new things. There's a single hot water feed coming into the bathroom via what I thought was a 22mm pipe. This runs...

Hi. First post here. We live in an old ca. 1860s stone house which has painted cement render. Whilst there's nothing really wrong with it apart from needing painting, we've been toying with the idea with removing it to expose the stonework. There is an unrendered section of wall to the side...

Hi. We're having problems with our Camray 3 oil boiler. We only moved in a couple of months ago and the house was empty for at least 8 months before we bought it and the boiler had been sat idle. The boiler kept locking out which I've learnt could be a whole host of issues but the symptoms...

Can anyone help me with the rewiring of my old Potterton EP2001 to my new Horstmann C27 please? They are meant to be "compatible" but have to change the back plate and rewire. This is what I currently have: Cable "3" is my Hot Water, "4" my Central Heating and "M" is the mains from...

I've been flushing out, re-painting and putting on new TRVs and lockshields onto our radiators in our new home and need to start balancing the radiators. I've read a lot of info about how it's done but still have a few questions if someone can help, please. Ours is quite a large and long...

Is fitting a range oven that has a LPG hob myself a big no no? We recently moved into our house but the previous owners took away their dual fuel range oven. We've bought an identical one (albeit a different colour!), so the pipework, bottles outside, connections etc are all there ready to...

Hi, I'm about to remove 3 radiators from our CH system which are at the ends of "loops" and I've got myself confused. Can I just remove the radiator and cut and cap the flow and return pipes back to the next radiator or do the flow and return pipes need to be joined? I've tried to show one of...

Hi, first post here but used the site a lot! Very helpful. I'm fitting TRVs and new lockshields to my radiators. On one radiator I can only fit the lockshield if the valve is pointing horizontal, rather than vertical like on the others, without me having to reconfigure the pipes. I've tried...