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Thanks for reply, yeah heating and water fine just a few min delay while the boiler sorts itself out. Does it sound like a sludge? The system has a magnetic filter on I clean out yearly its always covered. Cheers

Not sure if this normal or not, but if my room stat calls the boiler for heat and its a cold start, the boiler will fire up for a few mins then turn off and it will knock at this point the flame icon is on the room stat is there so its calling, if I then leave it a couple of mins the boiler will...

I noticed that sometimes on a cold fire up my Greenstar Ri will switch itself off after a seconds and bang, leave it 10 mins and it starts up fine on its own and run fine, it also seems to bang alot when the room stat stops calling for heat, the banging has got more frequent in last few days...

About a week ago I got a new Samsung tall Fridge frost free freezer it has digital inverter pump. The problem is the freezer does not feel as cold as the inbuilt temp reader displays which is -23, food feels a bit frozen, ice cream soft. I put freezer thermometer in it and it went to -10 after...

Hi, My place has a late 1940 early 50's staircase it has no spindles but paneling were the spindles should be and no spindles behind the paneling. I was hoping to just remove the panels and put 32mm spindles keeping the existing base and had rail but when I have had a look it seems the grove...

I bought a house recently, I thought it was 1930’s but talking to the neighbours it turns out to be 1950’s, the survey was a home buyers so not just a valuation he even thought it was 1930’s. In the survey it was mentioned it had asbestos garage roof, no issues with that but that the only...

Hi, I moved into an house a few months back and the both sides of the garden were full of ivy and it was also climbing side of house I spent many, many hours trying to clear it, today I also realised what I thought was a shrub was a mature ivy plant I missed it before as the stem is approx...

Possibly, I just had same issue in a place I just moved into, my neighbour said it was soak away and he had same problem, but as soak a ways apparently have a life of around 50 years (mine would be 60), that's it not a case of unblocking but getting a new one dug :( However I had ago a clearing...

Hi, I've moved into a place that I knew had an asbestos sheet garage roof which I wasn't too bothered about as I knew it could be moved relatively easily / not to expensive if the sheets were in one piece. I noticed over the weekend though the whole roof seems to have have been painted a...

Hi, Thanks for replies, the issue with the possible timber rot was they looked in a fitted wardrob that is directly under the chimney flashing that is leaking and they found, "water staining and vegetation intrusion, possible vegetation growth from timber rot (possibly fungal) to the...

Hi, I had a HBS on a house I want to buy and it came up with rather alot of 'urgent issues' rated 3, I knew the place needed work but not as much as the survey says. Anyway I need to get an idea of cost to sort these items out so I can adjust my offer price, in this situation is it usual...

Thanks for replies. A bit more digging on the councils website and I found my mums area is not covered by article 4 so looks like she can replace the window with a upvc unit. One thing Im not clear on though is some councils mention window frames under conservation areas and other do...

My mum lives in a small terraced house built about 10 years ago and its in a conservation area she wants to replace one window with a pvc unit currently its wood. How can I find out if Article 4 direction applies removing PD rights in that conservation areas as I know it doesnt apply to all ...

Hi, I need to do some small pointing repairs on bricks around the front door. Its a small job so was going to use some of that premixed repair mortar, however when I've used it before it drys very grey and the pointing I'm matching it to is a sandy colour. Could I just add a bit of sand to...

Hi, Not sure this is right section of forum but here goes. The previous owner of my property in 1998 purchased some of my next door neighbours garden and added it to theres, the title deeds for my property show house + land at back, there are two entry on the land registry one for the...

Hi I live in a semi and at the rear have a lean-to, next door want a rear extension which I have no objection to. However there builder wants to remove the side of my lean to so he can get better access to the side wall he is building that is next to my lean to wall, my concern is my lean to...

Hi, The people who bought the house next to me want to put a garden office in at the back of the garden, it will go right up to the fence (boundary), at the end of my garden next to it is my green house and veg patch. The garden office the neighbour wants will effectively block off most of...

When a RIDDOR is raised what happens next someone mentioned it purely for stats is that the case or will it get investigated further ? If the HSE contact me about it do I need to legally respond ?

Hi, I need the front of my house painted, its just the front and its painted from the top of the ground floor up, its not painted down the side or the back so its just the front. See pick of neighbours place but its same as mine...

Yes was a hob, tried to call orginal fitter on the eve it happened but no answer, the property is flat (not owned by me) and the owner didn't know where the meter to turn the gas off was hence why National grid called out. Owner was too nervous to use orginal fitter after what had happened thats...