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My daughters recently acquired 1900's brick built semi has external insulation mainly on the large gable end. Unfortunately it wasn't picked up on the survey that the coating that covers the insulation is bubbling up in many places. My plan is to strip off all the old coating and re coat but...

I'm on a shared supply (1930's semi) and despite my complaints to Yorkshire Water about low pressure when my neighbour is using the water supply they refuse to do anything about it. The have tested the flow rate which they say meets minimum requirements but the test was carried out when no...

Daughters newbuild house had a leak in the upstairs bathroom today, no isolator valves on the offending taps and stopcock not fully shutting off so turned off at the water meter stopcock in the street. On turning both back on the gauge on the pressure reducing valve eventually goes upto 4bar but...

With the rising cost of gas is it worth replacing my 1989 Ideal mexico 2. The boiler has been very reliable having only 2 issues gas valve and pilot light thermo couple in all that time so I'm reluctant to get rid. Everyone I know with a combi has had expensive trouble with there combi's but...

My 1930's semi 3rd bedroom was extended back in the 70's, the extension has a carport underneath. The underside of the extension floor joists /carport ceiling has what I believe to be asbestos sheet attached with no insulation. What's the modern alternative in this types of installation today, I...

I like to be armed with a bit of knowledge before calling in the professionals as I have been caught out by some unscrupulous tradesmen in the past. My boilers (a Ideal Mexico Super 2 RS60 serviced 2 years ago) pilot light was lit but main burner wasn't firing up despite controls calling for...

My old Ideal Mexico super 2 RS60 has developed an issue where the heating/hot water has become intermittent. I've tested power to the gas valves solenoid which is a steady 248v ac when the controls are calling for heat but the solenoid doesn't seem to have enough pull to suck in the plunger. So...

I recently made some cupboard door's to fit a new airing cupboard frame I also made. On fitting the doors I annoyingly noticed one of them has twisted about 7mm, the other's have remained true. I currently have the door clamped to a bench to try and reverse the bend, is there anymore I can do to...

Any rules of thumb how deep a mortice hole should be. I gather the tenon should be a 1/3 of the width of the timber so on a piece of wood 42mm deep a 14mm tenon. How deep should the mortice hole be. The posts where the mortices will be cut are 70mm square and the tenon timber is 68mm x 42mm. I...

About to re fit en suite and the current supply to the basin is in 15mm copper, should I change the pipe to 22mm for better flow. The flow and pressure to the single hot tap is ok but I will be fitting a mixer.

As the title says really, have read through various posts but no real conclusions apart from wired seems to be the way to go, so recommendations please. The house is a 3 bed semi, front door, side door, rear patio doors so I thought 3 pirs and 3 door contacts to alarm the downstairs would...

I currently have a hudson reed kia mixer valve with a rainfall shower head and would like to add a flexy hose and shower head mainly for easier cleaning of the shower etc. I can access the pipework so my plan was to add a diverter valve in the pipe that runs to the shower head then run a pipe...

Currently running one power shower in the main upstairs bathroom, the MI's that came with the pump says it can run a second shower. The MI's don't say how far away the shower can be. The second shower will be about 8m from the 1.5bar watermill pump, will the pump be able to cope with this...

About to fit a new shower,toilet and sink to my daughters en suite and have noticed the hot water supply is in 15mm copper. The hot water comes from a copper hot water cylinder fed from via 28mm pipe from the 140ltr tank in the loft. the 15mm pipe is tee'd into the 22mm hot water pipe that...

I've bought some 3/4"x 15mm flexible hoses with an isolating valve built in to plumb in a bath and I've noticed the internal bore particularly through the valve part is very small approx 6mm. My hot and cold water pressure is not very good so I'm concerned that this reduction in bore will effect...

I need to re-configure some underground pipe work my neighbours plumber messed up and wondered if the leadloc to mdpe fittings can be re-used. I only ask to see if I can save my neighbour a bit of money.

I currently have a split load consumer unit and the shower pump,fan and heated illuminated mirror are connected to the rcd side. Is it required under the 17th edition regs to have the lights connected to the rcd side, the ceilings 2.4m high. I've also read that under 17th ed regs...

Just want to make sure I've bought the correct adhesive trowel for laying 610mm x405mm x 12mm thick travertine tiles to plasterboard walls and marine ply floor. I've been advised on here I need to use a 10mm halfmoon adhesive trowel which I presume mean't 10mm deep notches The notches measure...

My next door neighbour had a plumber round today to break into what he thought was his incoming supply . Very annoying as I was in the shower at the time and thought something had gone wrong with it not realising the cold supply had been cut off for quite some time after I had checked out the...

How many 50w gu10 ip65 fire rated downlights should be installed in a bathroom 2.6m x 2.1m. There will also be 8 single white led deck lights installed more for effect than to give out light. When funds allow I will replace the gu10 50w halogens with deltech 5w led gu10s so with this in mind...