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They're not holes per se, just maybe like a 2mm gap around them where they have changed size over the seasons. Almost need a decorators caulk for outdoors!

Ok, what about the knots in the slats? They haven't fall men out leaving homes, but have shrunk a bit leaving a crack/gap around them that you can look through. Maybe something like PVA glue which is a bit more rubbery could plug those?

Looking to fill in some cracks/gaps on my wooden fence panels for privacy. Mainly around knots and gaps in the slats where they have warped due to weather. I was thinking a tub of wood filler from Screwfix, but this is probably bit really for outdoors applications. Any suggestions how to...

I found a manual online for a Siamp Skipper Compact which looks pretty much the same. Going to check everything is correct Edit, so I think I fixed it. There is a grey tubular plastic thing that I rotated anticlockwise which seemed to bring it higher and tighter. Although I may have...

Yeah, there's no spring in the button itself. Once the current blu block has melted away, I'll unscrew the main tube mechanism thing and see if it's got a load of blue gunk causing it not to fully return back up

The dual flush button on our toilet cistern doesn't return fully up now, not sure why. If you hold the button down, it still flushes. Just doesn't pop back up flush like it used to. Seemed to coincide with when we started using the toilet blu things in the cistern. Not sure what effect that...

It will do for the mo to stop wasps getting in. In meantime I'll keep an eye out for a plastic sheet or something I could cut into a blanking plate for it.

I found some fine steel wool in shed, I've bunged that in the holes. May rust over time I suppose. Only concern is potentially a fire hazard for the roof vent, in case a firework or something somehow ignites it. Unlikely tho.

Would an old gas heater flue be of value for anything, or just take it to the tip? Seems a shame as there's a fair bit of metal there.

I managed to actually undo them with fingers in the end. All metal flue venting now removed from loft. What would be the best method of blocking the hole in wall and roof now? I noticed a dead wasp fall out when I removed the roof vent section, so definitely don't want that open for them to set...

Ok thanks, so nothing toxic to worry about then. I need to figure a way to get the nuts off the roof tile section. The bolt sticks out too much for a standard socket, and can't get a spanner on it.

Started dismantling the flue, and noticed this white cement filler stuff around the pipe as it enters the wall. Its all crumbled away as I've pulled the pipe away. Is this asbestos, or just some light cement filler?

I think I'll have a go out pulling it all out at some point. Is the section that goes up to the roof vent likely to just come out by undoing the 2 bolts with a socket wrench? Need to think of something to plug the holes up with after as well. Maybe stuff some fibreglass insulation in the hole...

Idk, the only evidence on where a gas heater was in our front room is a sealed off gas pipe, and a boarded up hole that seems to just go to a plastic vent straight on the other side of the wall. Maybe it is from our old gas heater

Hi, I've been looking for more storage space, and been thinking just now that this metal gas vent takes up quite a lot of space on the loft. It comes from the boundary wall next door, then follows the roof up to the top to vent. These are all mid-1990s build houses, which I think had gas...

Hi all, This winter our central heating really makes a lot of noise when CH is on. Doesn't do this with just HW on. (Boiler is an old Potterton Prima F) I've added sentinel x200 thinking it might be kettling, but I'm not so sure now. It sounds like the noise is coming from the return pipe on...

Highly likely it is, we live in a very hard water area as well. So you think wait a bit longer, and see what happens?

Hi all, Got a central heating heating system that is around 30 years old now, with a Potterton Prima F boiler and 8 rads. This winter, it's started making a really loud metallic clanking noise when warming up from cold. It does eventually settle down, but there are around 15 minutes or more of...

According to that diagram #5, it would would 300mm when at right angles to the boundary, and 600mm if directly facing the property boundary. In my case it's not pointing at the fence, but parallel to it. Exactly 600mm depending on which part of the plastic flue you measure it from. Is that...

Terrace houses, at the back our neighbours boiler flue exhaust is going straight over the fence and across our back wall. I've read online that the regs minimum is 600mm from boundary line. Where abouts on the flue is this measured from, as I would say it's borderline. Cheers.