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  1. john nash

    Is weatherstrip a standard requirement for wooden windows

    We are having to have the windows in listed home repaired. We were kindly allowed to insert some double glazing panels into each window (there are 8 in each window half - 9 pairs of windows) and the windows required careful rebating to get them in. The final fitting is now taking place and they...
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    new house with Solar Heating question

    We have moved into a house with a solar heating array on one of it's roofs. We were told it was operating and certainly the Suntanna 2 controller shows switches working and temperatures in the collector and storage tank going up and down with daylight. System has a pressure gauge which is...
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    GRP Balcony leaking into garage below

    We have a stone built lounge, with a small balcony, attached to the main house. It sits over the garage. Moved in a month ago and now spotted that there is a small amount of water coming through the garage. When we moved in, it was throwing it down and there were no leaks then. It looks to have...
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    wits end with slow draining toilet in new (to me) house

    Moved into a new house It's an old graded building with two far more recent additions on the side. It has 5 floors. The main building has two bathrooms on floors 3 and 4, with a SVP that runs into the attic room and cleverly exits (hidden) onto the roof of one of the dormers. Everything up here...
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    garage fibre cement roof - overcladding

    have a fibre cement roof on my garage (4m x 6m) that is nearing the end of it's life; crumbly, cracking etc.. Allegedly it's been there around 20 years. I have been patching with the black fibre painty stuff .... I kinda need a good insulating roof (which it is) but the cost and aggravation for...
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    fibre cement roof - overclad

    I have a fibre cement roof on my garage (4m x 6m) that is nearing the end of it's life; crumbly, cracking etc.. Allegedly it's been there around 20 years. I have been patching with the black fibre painty stuff .... I kinda need a good insulating roof (which it is) but the cost and aggravation...
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