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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi, Just want to know whether something is compliant with the regs or not. I want to add a light into our conservatory as we do not currently have one. in the wall next to the door to the conservatory is a double socket on the ring main. there is also a fused switch spurred off of the socket...

Morning all, New to the forums, but been lurking for a while but I can't seem to find an answer to my question. We have moved into a house with an Ideal C24 Mini combi with a tiny programmer built into the front of it (not user friendly at all). There is a danfoss rmt230 room stat in the...