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    Underfloor heating with polypipe

    Hi, I have had two rooms knocked together. The floors are a 45mm screed in one room and a 50mm screed in the other. I need to get the floors level and also level with the hallway but want to install a wet ufh system. My best option appears to be; - dig up existing screed floors - lay a...
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    Kitchen sink is moving - what type of gully do I need?

    Hi, My kitchen is at the back of the house and the sink waste water exits the house via a pipe that feeds into a grated drain. I want to move the sink about 4 meters along the same wall. I imagine I need to just dig a new gully to connect the new location to the existing drain. Before I...
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    underfloor heating advice needed

    thank you all for your comments. i do have to replace a boiler and we are on oil so i am considering an air source pump. i saw the comments against this and would like to ask why you think they are bad. Normally swapping a boiler for a new one that costs £1000 compared to a air pump that...
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    underfloor heating advice needed

    Hi, At the moment our kitchen has ceramic tiles laid on top of a concrete screed. The screed sits on top of some wooden joists with insulation in the gaps. I'd like to have underfloor heating and a wooden floor. It is about 20m square so I am thinking of a wet system but have the...
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    Adding posts and fencing to a tree platform

    Hi, i am building a tree house/platform for the kids. So far I have cemented in three posts (4" by 4"). I have then joined these posts together with wood and various fixings to make a secure platform. I now want to put a wall around the platform. I have 3" by 3" posts which I want to...
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    toilet cistern won't fill up

    hi, thank you for your advice. i can now see that it is the flush valve. i tried re-seating the seal but this does not work - the button lifts the flush valve but it does not drop down again to re-create the seal. i will get a new flush valve unit and fit that and expect it to solve the...
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    toilet cistern won't fill up

    thank you very much for the advice. I will try to fix the flush valve tonight and, if required, replace this valve. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks, Mark
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    toilet cistern won't fill up

    thanks for the quick reply. do you mean a seal on the bottom of the anti-syphon fill valve? if that doesn't work do you recommend a new fill valve or is there anything else to try? many thanks
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    toilet cistern won't fill up

    Hi. I noticed that after a flush it sounded like the cistern was filling up for a very long time. I looked in the cistern and water was entering the cistern via the anti-syhon fill valve but was esacping down the flush pipe. I isolated the water to the toilet, took off the anti-shpon fill...
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    putting up a washing line

    cool. thanks for the quick reply. i thought about putting it on the side of the house but there is no real space to do this. will check out the fixings you mentioned. thanks.
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    putting up a washing line

    i need to put up a washing line. one end can tie around a large tree. can the other end be fixed to the side of the house? would this put too much weight on the brickwork? if this is ok, what kind of fixings would you recommend? my old line had two fixings, at the top was a wheel and then a...
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