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    Ideal Boiler Flue Installation

    Thank you for all of the responses everyone. It's good to know I'm not just being awkward about it. Gas appliances are one thing that I always try and make sure is done right. Too risky for the family. The flue is really easily accessible - just above head height with nothing else around it, in...
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    Ideal Boiler Flue Installation

    Finally came back to do the job properly. Or not. To break the flue free, he had to hammer and chisel the cement from around it. As I suspected this has damaged the new flue pipe visible on the inside. Not the end of the world, but not happy with it. In addition, you can tell that the terminal...
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    Ideal Boiler Flue Installation

    Evening all, I have an Ideal C24 HE Mini, and the tip of the boiler flue on the outside wall had disintegrated as it had gone brittle over the years. Decided it was best to have a new flue fitted, and understood that the tip of the flue was a part of the flue itself, and couldn't be replaced...
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    Boiler Flue Tip / Exhaust Vent

    Hello all, We have the boiler serviced every year under a cover plan that we've had. Boiler is great, about 15 years old and we've lived here 4.5 years and it's not let us down at all. Every year they come to service it, every year it passes, although the person servicing it seems to insist...
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    DIY Lead Flashing - Opinions Please?

    Well, just a final update on this for anyone who may stumble across the thread in the future. Turns out it was just a silly test to do - lesson learned there, but was done with best intentions. In the 6ish months since doing the job, we have had some of the heaviest driving rain that I've seen...
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    Does this roof installation look correct?

    Not sure that I would be terribly happy with that if I'd paid for a professional to do it. I'm DIY, constructed my first ever roof on our extensions and made sure to position the dry ridge kit in such a way that the ridge tile covered it all - seemed really obvious. Also, don't think it helps...
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    DIY Lead Flashing - Opinions Please?

    Thank you, really appreciate that, as a diyer, I've genuinely given it my everything to try and get right, so it's really tough when you hit a snag like this. I'm on the roof at the moment and I've taken all of the flashing off. You can see where the water has run behind the steps and down the...
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    DIY Lead Flashing - Opinions Please?

    Thanks for your reply - not sure how cavity trays would have helped though? The water is running down the face of the bricks below the flashing, within about 10 seconds of spraying the water? There was a conservatory in the same place for 20 years before the extension and there was no issues...
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    DIY Lead Flashing - Opinions Please?

    Hi All, Recently added a new single storey extension with a gable style roof that abuts the existing house wall. I took a gamble, and decided to have a stab at doing the step and cover flashing myself. I knew it was a risk. Now hlat the point of boarding it out, however I decided to do one...
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    Trench Fill or Strip Foundation?

    Hi all, Thanks for your comments. Just thought I'd update this. Having spoke with Building Control they've given the go ahead for trench filling too. Good thing about this is that they have said the trenches only need to be 450mm wide instead of 600mm for the strip footings so less to dig...
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    Trench Fill or Strip Foundation?

    A popular choice then! :) wish we have Mixamate round here, that looks like a very neat set up with the mixing and pump all done from one truck.
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    Trench Fill or Strip Foundation?

    Hi all, I'm shortly going to embark on my rear extension project. Did my own designs and drawings and full plans approval granted by building control which I'm pretty chuffed about, but I'm by no means an expert!! The plan was, after digging a test hole before submitting plans and speaking...
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    Extension Brick/Block Work and Foundations

    Hi all, Embarking on a small extension on the back of the house. No knocking through required, just using existing window and door openings. I've spoken to BC for some of the technical info, and am intending on doing a chunk of the work myself as much as possible. My questions are as follows...
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    Possible Extension - Thought Please

    Hi All, Firstly, my reason for asking this is that I appreciate tradesmen are very busy, so before I take advantage of free quotes, I want to make sure I'm not wasting anyone's time. We have a conservatory on the back of the house, 3m x 3m which is lovely, but usual conservatory issues with...
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    Advice on adding a CH zone please

    Hi all, I'm after some advice please on adding a zone to our existing central heating system. I'm quite confident with plumbing itself, and the wiring involved, but i have a few questions that i hoped someone might be able to answer for me. The boiler is a 2006/7 Ideal c24 mini HE combi. I...
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    Mystery wire in a ring socket and cable routes

    Thank you, the light switch route would make sense. I'll have a look and see. I did glance in the loft, but it's deep in that pumped in insulation so haven't been for a proper rummage..
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    Mystery wire in a ring socket and cable routes

    You are correct, that is a cut off cable. I tested it when I saw it, and it is dead, and I gave a little tug on it, but is secure in there. I did wonder if it was an off cut that had fallen in, but it looks as though it was intentionally put there at first. Worrying discovery but it's not live...
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    Mystery wire in a ring socket and cable routes

    Hi all, This question is to satisfy my own curiosity mainly and to stop me dying in the future drilling into the walls. We live in a mid 90s built house. The floors upstairs are those big beautiful sheets of tongue and groove chipboard, which has never been lifted (runs under upstairs walls...
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    2 non socket spurs from one ring socket

    Thank you all for your assistance and advice. very much appreciated! I drilled through directly behind the kitchen socket and put a fsu on the conservatory wall and ran the light switch wiring from there. The 4 conductors-1 hole was doable altough tight when refitting the socket. I have...
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    2 non socket spurs from one ring socket

    Thank you to both of you for your replies, very much appreciated. Very good point regarding the practicalities of getting 4 conductors in the holes. Always interested to hear alternatives if you would be willin to share them with me? Thanks again for your help.
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