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Thanks for your reply Lee. The surround is a smooth stone. I’m not sure exactly what. It feels like concrete! The stove we wanted to put in was quite small. Probably 45cms wide by 50cms high. It’s probably the same size as the current cut out hole in the surround.

Hello again, This forum has been an invaluable source of information for me. Again I was hoping that someone would be able to offer their advice here. I want to install a wood burning stove. Since we’ve lived in the house we had the fire insert blocked up with logs and an electric fire sat in...

Hello all. I would love to have a simple decked area at the back of my house. We want to have it right at the screen door so you can walk straight out on to the deck. Any of the diy tutorials I’ve seen online shows how to build a decking over soil or a soft ground surface. How does it differ...

Yes, as you suggested Ian this appears to be the issue. One of the levers had jammed and wouldn’t move. If I have someone who knows what they’re doing replace this, would it possibly fix both my issues of not being able to separate hot water from heating and that there is never enough hot water...

Immersion switch is off now! I’ve snapped a couple of pics of the yellow pump. Are these other photos the levers that you mentioned Ianmcd? I don’t see anything that looks like a traditional lever, except on the opposite wall coming out of the small red water tank in my first post. Thanks...

Hi all, thanks for helping out already. I’ve snapped what I think are the two valves. The house is not a mansion or anything, it’s a 4 bed. The yellow bodied pump I can’t really tell where or what it’s connected to. If seems to be separate from the red pump though and it’s on the opposite side...

Hello all, I’ve a had a search through these forums and haven’t found the answer to this, but if it has been discussed before just point me in the right direction! We live in a house which is around 14 years old. It’s fairly modern in most respects but I’m not sure how the plumbing has been set...