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    Repair ideas for vertical roof support

    Hi. We have this vertical support on our house that is rotting at the bottom. Any ideas for a sensible repair for this? Either DIY, or what I should be enquiring after in the trade? It seems like it would be hard to replace as-is. A replacement might have to be two-piece, with some kind of...
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    plywood, screed, adhesive, and tiles over floorboards ?

    Just a curiosity really. I saw some people doing a flooring job in an old house that is now an office. On the third floor, they put plywood down, then screed, then adhesive for carpet tiles (or could be vinyl.. I didn't see the final layer). It just struck me that sometimes you need to get...
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    broken / dropped apex internal breeze block wall in loft

    Thank you Jeds. I think you're right, and it is what I was thinking too. It's a shame when people don't care about the quality of the work though!
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    broken / dropped apex internal breeze block wall in loft

    Hi everyone. I wondered if I could get people's thoughts on this? Level of urgency, worry, etc. ? :) I apologise for the wobbliness of the loft-videos (the last 3), but I think you can begin to make stuff out in the 3rd video.
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    Think there may just be a simple language barrier here, but thanks all the same.
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    So I guess that the flow lines (denoted with the arrows) can be flipped by unscrewing the fitting, so that the rad inlet can be moved? I'm going to buy some more stuff then..
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    Ok, thanks for the explanation.
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    Yep it's the last photo in my post above. As I say, it looks like Pegler do the only matching one. The model Screwfix have called a Pegler VB1390/4P looks like the same style.
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    The TRV head is in-line with the radiator output. They're usually 90 degrees to eachother aren't they?
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    Yes you're correct. They're certainly Danfoss anyway. Oh by the way, I found that Drayton are selling the body-only, to go with the Wiser heads. The plastic cap on them made me mistake them for locksheild valves. So they are suitable for almost all of my radiators except for the horizontal-head...
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    We seems to have a right old mix. There's a bulldog one in one room that looks like it might have leaked some of its liquid. That one has a button rather than a pin internally. We have various Westherm Fours. One of which seem to be on what looks like 10mm pipe instead of the 15mm elsewhere in...
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    Trv pins only move 2mm. Head moves much more.

    In the house we've moved in to, I'm trying to get to grips with the heating system and some issues with heat from radiators in a downstairs room (almost like cellar level, but it's not, it's just that the house is on a hill so theres a room down there). Anyway to cut to the chase, my question...
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    It does seem to be correct. The meter readings are correct. Also the tarriff comparison websites say I'm getting a good deal with this supplier (igloo)
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    We did do that just before, although my computer and 3 screens, internet router, modem, wifi access point, speakers, and stuff generally on standby was still on. Got down to 1.6A which seemed OK.
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    Thanks for the photo, yes that's what I had in mind - well I was thinking of the tank rather than the heater itself - but we don't seem to have such a tank anywhere. We think we can see where one used to be, in a cupboard on the landing, but it's just capped off pipes now..
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    Of our GU10s (23 in total), 10 of them are halogen 50w, so we're wasting about 450w there if the equivalent LED was 5w, and these are on quite a lot.
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    Yes it does drop back down. It appears that either of the 500w PIR floodlights, will light up both reflector lamps. So if you trigger the PIR on the north side of the house, that floodlight comes on as expected, and so does the reflector lamp alongside it. Also, the reflector lamp on the south...
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    I'm now wondering if the PIRs are simply coming on all the time and we're not realising. You can't see from inside, and a road does run right past the house. If it's a 500w halogen flood light with a 300w reflector backed onto it, well that would be running up a bit. It still might not explain...
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    mega electric usage at new house... doesn't seem right.

    It looks to me like it's the PIR floodlights, since they are the only other thing that I can see being fed from the loft circuit, but why they would be consuming 3A when not illuminated is a bit beyond me. From what I can see, there are two PIR halogen floodlights, one on each side of the...
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