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Hi all, Whilst I do indulge in all sorts of DIY, messing with my oil burner is not really something I want to do out of choice. However, I have a Grant Vortex Boiler, with a Reillo RBL burner (& pump). I've actually got my boiler service paid for to happen in January, pre booked...

Hi all, Just needing a sanity check please that what I'm doing here doesn't contravene any electrical (or other) regs. I DIY'd our bathroom last year. The one thing I didn't do was find a space to fit a towel holder. However, the other day when I was doing something else in our airing...

15mm gap between brickwork of extension (right of image) and of old building (left of image). Been there 15year already and isn't causing an issue. It just bothers me aesthetically. Is it likely that this gap is necessary for ventilation of the cavity perhaps, or can I fill it? Would you go...

Hi all, Not a dramatic post really. I am smartening up my garage this summer. Although 3 of the walls have thermalite blocks in addition to the brick walls, one section is just single skin (one brick). This wall has a DPC 150mm off the floor level inside. Moisture rises to this point and...

Hi all, Last two nights my CH pump has been running all night. My setup is: - Grant Vortex oil boiler, floor mounted in a protected but unheated cold area (detached garage). - Honeywell frost stat mounted directly above the boiler. - Unvented heatrae sadia megaflow cylinder. We don't call...

Hi all, I'm refitting our bathroom. Hoping someone can suggest a solution to this wiring issue I've found. Apon removing the old vanity unit, I was surprised to find a junction box screwed to the wall directly behind it, a few inches from the sink pipework. Looks to me like it was once used...

Hi, I've just installed some lovely under-the-stairs cupboards with nicely scribed trims and plinth etc. Really happy with my general carpentry effort. However, foolishly, I was focusing on the woodwork and think I may have gone for an electrical solution that was convenient rather than correct...

Hi all, Not drastically urgent but I had a new heating engineer come and serviced my HRM Wallstar today. All fine except he only had an 80deg nozzle in the van and the manual says it should be 60deg. The previous two nozzles have both been 60deg. He said it wouldn't make any difference and...

OK I've done quite a bit of tiling in kitchen and bathrooms. But I'm finding that however neatly I prep & paint my garage floor, it never lasts long before I spill some brake fluid on it or something. I've got a week off coming up so thinking of tiling it. But I have a few questions.... This...

Hi all, I'm replacing our kitchen. Just a minor electrical question since I was about to crack on and do something before I stopped and had a rare, sensible, moment and thought I'd better ask about this one before I do something silly. Anyway - simple situation. The old cooker hood/fan was...

Hi all :) Just fitting a new kitchen for the wife. The location of the cooker hood is about 12" from the location of the old hood, meaning that the hole through the external (cavity) wall isn't in the right place any more. Not wishing to make a mess trying to drill it out with loads of tiny...

Hello all :) I'm DIY replacing our entire kitchen - This will be the 4th time I've done a kitchen on my own so I'm confident with most of it. However, this time is the first time that I'm actually moving the location of the oven. Until now I've just used the existing electrical infrastructure...

Morning all :) I've got a pretty fancy (I think) unvented CH/DHW system powered by a 2001 Oil-fired HRM Wallstar 15/19 Boiler. I've asked some separate questions about it in another thread, but now, much more urgently, the thing has stopped firing up! Some key facts: - There is no room...

Hello :D My Honeywell programme is one of these... I find it very annoying that it doesn't allow me to progamme the DWH and CH independently, i.e they both come on and turn off at the same time. I wouldn't be so bothered, expect that, when they are both one, the system seems to...

Hi :D I had an unvenvted system. Its a 210litre high pressure cylinder in the loft with separate expansion vessel. The boiler is an OilStar oil-fuelled unit downstairs. The system provides DHW to four sinks in the house, and two showers. The pipework gives out quite a loud groan when we...

Hi :D Just moved into a new house - I'd got to know my old vented system pretty well and did quite a bit of successful DIY work on it. However - This new place has an unvented / pressurized system, and one of the overflows is dripping. For the H/W, in the attic there is a cylinder with a...

Hi, I'm looking to sort out my tarmac driveway, hoping to achieve the following; - Making the whole thing flat. It is already 'flat' but areas have sunk - especially around where the weigh of the cars has been for the last 22yrs. another area is around the water meter cover (iron, meter set...

Hi :) I've got a open/vented system in my 1990's two story house. There are two tanks in the attic, one large cold water tank, and one smaller c/h expansion tank. Both tanks are fed by 15mm cold mains via a ball valve. The overflow pipe from the smaller tank drips (slowly, but regularly -...

Hi :D Continuing my DIY plastering adventures, having done two bathrooms and smoothed over a couple of ceilings, I'm going to have a crack at the conservatory pictured. Wife wants all the brick plastered, to be finished ready for paint (no tiling). I've never plastered onto bare...

Hi :D First, the picture; When I installed the shower tray, I replaced that section of floorboard with 18mm ply, levelled it with packers and laid it on a solid bed of bonding plaster. To be level, it needed the left hand side raising about 6-7mm as you can see by the gap in the...