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Hi all, We had a 35kw Worcester Bosch Greenstar 8000 life system boiler installed a few months back. It's CH only and powering 15 rads of about 30kw or so at T50. All the rads and piping are all new too. Basically a full new system. We're facing a problem where we cant get all the rads hot...

Hi, we had a french door pair of Rockdoors fitted last year. In the Winter this time round we noticed alot of cold in the hall and when subsequently inspected the doors more thoroughly, noticed a bunch of issues. Not sure if installer or Manufacture at this stage, Two main issues are draughts...

Hi all, Visited a property yesterday for the first time in a good few months, resident had complained that the electrics in the kitchen were tripping out from a double socket behind the washing machine. When visiting I could see alot of mould on the walls and quite a lot of condensation...

Hi all, Trying to verify ive been given the correct info here (oppose to what's convenient for the installer) Having a new boiler 36kw system boiler installed which will be 3-4M or so away from the gas meter, with id say about as many 45/90degree turns in it. (3-4). Installer has suggested...

Hi all, As part of some renovations, having some older radiators replaced with newer ones. Want to take the opportunity to maybe add a couple rads but without asking too much of the boiler. Wanted to ask, when working out the total BTU / wattage, should I be calculating at T60 or T50? My...

Hi all, I've been addressing a bunch of issues i've noticed this winter. One of which has been tracking down the source of high humidity (70%+) through the dwelling. Having setup a bunch of digital temperature / humidity readouts in parallel, i've noticed the highest humidity by some way is...

Hi, Super straight forward question, sorry if this is stupid. Noticed quite a few drafts on the UPVC windows in my home and could only find USA tutorials on how to adjust (which the mechanisms looked totally different to mine).... anyway, for compression/pressure adjustments. Is it an allan...

Hi all, I'm trying to track down and fix a problem we've noticed this Winter where we're waking up to a really cold property, some mornings it's been as low as 7.5 degrees inside and we believe there's likely a bunch of issues contributing to it. We're dealing with fixing the loft insulation on...

Hi all, I recently followed some great advice on this forum to insulate my suspended ground floor. Awful job, but in completion the amount of difference it's made has been incredible. Off the back of that I've decided to look at what else I can insulate to further increase the thermal...

Hi all, Very recently moved into a house built in 1955. Previous owner made me aware of an access hatch to get into the crawl space beneath the suspended ground floor. On inspection, fortunately no dead bodies....but did immediately notice there is absolutely no insulation down there at all...

Hi all, Moved into a property earlier this year and noticed a really strong vibrating sound coming from the cylinder room on the top floor. It happens for maybe 4-5 seconds in the morning when we're drawing hot water for the first time. Usually notice it when one of us has a shower in the...

Hi all, See the attached images below, as part of some renovations, I wanted to do a couple indian stone curved steps leading up to the front door. Have had a pop but due to the curve, it's been cut appropriately and meant the cuts for the top facing pieces have ended up being exposed and...

Hi all, Had a RISCO Lightsys2 for a while now, always been great until recently noticing it had stopped giving us status update emails. Logged into the app and was met with this message saying im not authorised to access the site and that i should contact my installer?! App screen image -...

Hi all, Having a bad time with our automated gates today. We had automated iron gates already but about 3 weeks ago decided to add a bit of privacy and swapped the iron gates for closed board timber ones, but kept the automation as it's been fine for us the past few years we've lived...

Hi all, We moved into a property recently that has an automated roller type garage door. Albeit looking a little on the old side, it does physically function just fine by pressing the corresponding buttons. But there don't appear to be any FOBS for it which is a shame. That said - I can see...

Hi all, Moved into a property very recently and saw an old Accenta alarm still wired up which i'm trying to salvage. I can see the instructions clearly say, 'to set, enter the code' which I do. But then it just sort of goes into its beeping mode constantly but never appears to set. From...

Hi all, In a property we've recently moved into the front master bedroom (standard double glazed) window overlooks a main road that's 20M away or so and a motorway 200M away or so, both can be heard whilst from the bed, which has become frustrating. I bought a sound level meter and measured...

Hi all, This is a property I purchased back in 2016 and have been away from until this week. There were very small cracks in the ceiling here when I purchased it. But on return they certainly appear to have become worse. It felt a good idea to get some advice on here to help steer how I future...