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Hi all. My house and hot water is heated by an Ariston Microgenus boiler. It's working fine, except, every once in a while, it fires up and the hot water light (as opposed to the central heating light) comes on. The LCD display goes from showing "On" to showing a number reflecting water...

Greetings all, I'm building a false wall this weekend to help insulate us from our neighbours, sound-wise. The frame will be all-metal, with insulation inside, then horizontal resilient bars, then a double skin of soundbloc plasterboard. The question is: not having done this before, soundbloc...

Hi all. All input on this appreciated! I live in an end terrace. The wall between the main bedroom and next door is one skin of bricks thick and transmits noise so effectively it's hard to believe it wasn't designed to aid communication between the two houses :) So the plan is to divest...

Morning all, My Ariston boiler has developed an interesting fault. When I turn both taps on to recharge the system (after draining to remove a radiator), the left-hand one leaks. It's only a drip, and it stops when I close the taps, but I don't like it. I've tightened the screw inside...

Hi all, looking for some info. The plaster on one of my walls is blown. It's an external brick wall. I'd like to pull all the plaster off then attach appropriately insulated plasterboard to the bricks, either with dot and dab or metal framing. I've got a suspicion that there are...

Evening all, I am in the market for a new shed roof. I've found eroofs.co.uk, which does free delivery over £100. I can't find a single word about them anywhere online. They look reputable, but... Has anyone here ever used em? Thanks!

Hello all - the radiator in my spare room is an old style number with 3/4in connectors. It is fitted to a new-style 15mm TRV and lockshield. The connector between the TRV and the radiator appears to be packed with some kind of string, presumably jammed in there to get the different size...

Hello everyone, I live in a Victorian terrace built in 1903. It has a standard covered porch at the front. I'm looking to install a PIR onto the porch ceiling, which only measures about 2' x 2'. Can anyone offer any insight as to how the ceiling works, for want of a better phrase? I...

Hello everyone. I'm putting plasterboard up in my bathroom, replacing the knackered plaster that's there at the moment. The plasterboard will then be tiled. Two of the walls are stud partitions, which will be a normalish/big DIY challenge. Two of the walls are brick, with plaster...

Afternoon all. I have here a brand new chrome effect waste from Wickes with a bore of 35mm. This surprises me somewhat as I would have expected to be able to easily connect a brand new waste to a 40mm soil pipe, but there we are. Is there such a thing as a reducer that will couple my...

Hello everyone. I live in a Victorian terrace with a very (about 6' by 6') bathroom. Making matters worse is the fact that all the pipes in there - to the basin and toilet, and from basin and toilet to outside, are inside the bathroom, i.e. no inside the internal walls. This obviously...

Evening all. It's new basin time here at ismellburning towers. The current basin is directly above where the pipes come into the bathroom through the floorboards. That means the pipes simply travel up vertically, and are then bent to meet the taps. What I want to do now is have those...

Greetings all. My kitchen has an air brick installed in it, and I'm looking to install an extractor fan. Can I simply install an extractor fan on top of the air brick and bob's my uncle, or do I need to drill through/remove/modify the air brick before everything will work properly? Thanks...

Hello all, I'm installing new light switches throughout my Victorian house. All the walls are lath and plaster, which as you might expect, has gone off fairly dramatically and is now fairly brittle and crumbly. My new light switches are a tad deeper than the old ones, and as such don't...