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Thanks for the help everyone. Does anyone knows a good timber merchant in London I could try? (pref East London but will travel for a good one)

It is a supported balcony. Some rot at the bottom of the corner support posts where they meet the concrete footings but the rest of the structural stuff appears OK. Most of the rotten wood is the railings and decorative pieces.

I'm looking to replace rotten wooden balcony components with similar wood. I'm not sure what the original wood is though, it appears to have no knots, is an orange / brown colour if I scrape though the surface (which has gone grey where the varnish has flaked off). Also, has a nice straight...

yeah, I will avoid it next time too. The Crown stuff I used previously was much easier to work with.

Been using Wickes Trade Matt (White) on a previously painted room. Finding when cutting in the paint seems to be drying as fast as I apply it! Also leaves fairly 'groovy' brush marks. Rollering also difficult and getting some patches of sandpaper like finish. Question: is this paint...

Yes, I ended up flushing the system myself as the installer was a muppett and all his boss new how to do was argue. I mean flushing an obviously dirty system through a brand new boiler is pretty damn stupid... If there's crud in your system it's probably the cause. I also fitted a...

I have the exact same model boiler and have had the howling pretty much as you describe soon after the thing was installed. After giving up on the 'installer' who powerflushed the system twice, I decided to attack it myself. Upon disconnecting the boiler from the heating circuit, I backflushed...

Have exactly the same boiler and the same problem. The Vaillant engineer I had come and take a look reckoned the powerflush hadn't been done properly and that debris in the system was starting to block the heat exchanger. It too was only several weeks after installation. Had the installer...