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Hi guys. It's time to change our 20+ year old boiler, and I'm looking at options. We currently run an oil combi, as there are no mains services in our village, and I was initially looking to replace with another oil boiler. We've had a quote of just over £5K to replace the boiler with a...

Hi guys. Apologies for duplicate post, I've posted this in the "Windows" forum, but thought it might be better here. Some years ago, we had new windows installed by a local company, but they didn't fit lintels above any of the downstairs windows, with the following result: Diningroom 1 by...

Hi, just looking for some advice. Just spent the night at my daughters, dog sitting, and noticed that all rads were just luke warm, and rooms appeared cold (might be my age). Looking at the boiler, the rad temp was set to 45 degrees, which seems a bit low to me, so I upped it to 55, which was a...

Hi guys. I'm looking to replace my old oil fired combi, and would appreciate some recommendations. The current combi supplies a bath an basin upstairs, the kitchen, and a basin downstairs. We use electric showers, so no supply issue there. We have 8 radiators in total. Current boiler is a...

Hi I live in an ex local authority house, built in the 1940's, and part of the house has an area where the finished floor is about half a course below the dpc. The walls of this part of the house don't have a cavity, just two layers of brick. It's a flat roof "extension", although it appears to...

Hi all. I am having our downstairs toilet renovated, including having a shower installed. I want to do some of the work myself, but could do with some advice. The floor is concrete, so I was initially going to raise the tray box in the waste, but the room was in pretty bad shape, so the walls...

Hi all, I'm about to do some maintenance on my sealed system, and, as I am having to drain it down, I'm considering installing a particulate filter. Some people seem to swear by them, and others say they are not necessary, so I would be interested in your comments/advice. As a selection, I'm...

Hi guys We are renovating the kitchen in our 1940's house, and have uncovered a few unexpected issues. The kitchen is now empty, and we've removed ceramic tiles to reveal smaller quarry tiles. We also had lead piping from the street stop cock to the house, which has now been replaced, but it...

Hiya, novice here, be gentle. I am installing a radiator in my hall, and the pipes drop from the ceiling, and then run horizontally to the rad. The rad has angled valves. With the horizontal run fitted along the wall, the valve positions are slightly forward of the run, so I want to bend the...