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I will try it but I guess it will have to wait for the winter now. Some other information is that the hall is a reasonable size and internal and isolated (with a main door to an internal communal area). The main living room/kitchen area has full width full heigh glass fronting, which can...

Thanks - thats clear and I will try it next time I have the heating on. My worry is that the hall will heat up much quicker than the rest of the flat and so I will have to set the thermostat high. And then I wonder - can it really save energy to have the hall hot (I'm guess I will need the...

I've moved into a new apartment (built around 2007). It has a Potterton Powermax HE (condensing boiler with integrated unvented cylinder). There is a wall thermostat in the hallway. All radiators have TRVs (including the one in the hall way and all bathroom rails). All the internal doors...

I have moved into a new apartment. It has Schuco windows. In each bedroom there is a big window that opens by rotating around a pivot (bottom of the window goes out, top comes in). There is a mystery fitting in the frame: http://i.imgur.com/xfnugYL.jpg The black plastic thing on the room...

Thanks. We bought it, and it is a flat in a large (10+ storey) development. Thanks - this answers my question. They were definitely required when the building was constructued, but stopped being required in 2007 - I was hoping I could use that to somehow justify their removal. They really...

Thanks... Yes in 2007 it was changed (at least in Scotland) so that closers are only required on doors between a dwelling and a garage. But I'm not sure if the regulations at the time of the application are locked in (ie whether insurance companies would accept it has changed later). Also...

Thanks, I know this. But the regs have since changed and in an equivalent new build they would no longer be required. If they were still required I wouldn't be asking - my question is about whether such a change can affect my older building. I would obviously not remove the closer on the...

Hi, I have just moved into a new apartment. It was built around 2005 and has perko chain door closers on all the internal doors (even the hall cupboards). I want to remove them because they drive us crazy and as far as I can tell serve no useful purpose (we use wedges to prop the door open...