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We had a bloke come to give our boiler it's first year service, he took the front cover off the boiler via its 2 screws & then started using an electronic device. he said he could tell that the boiler didn't need cleaning by the reading he got on his device so there was no need to open it up...

Just fitted a new low energy bulb on the top landing -the newer ones that light faster & we noticed that even when it's off there is a slight flicker every now & again. I tested the bulbholder with my mainstester screwdriver & when it's off it still gives a faint glow off the live pin. It's...

Recovering our loft with insulation that expands to about 300mm, the instructions say do not lay over any wiring or reroute if necessary,lol but it's impossible with insulation this thick, in some parts there are more wires than others but what is the danger if any of laying over wiring ?

To comply with current regs I have to fit an extractor fan in our new upstairs toilet. It's a large dormer attic room & behind the wall is the loft area & the soilpipe with durgo which runs 3.5 mtrs to the wall to connect to the exterior vertical soil pipe. Getting this pipe thru the brick wall...

Why are shaving sockets seemingly only made in dual voltage? I want to fit a single voltage shaver socket in a standard square pattress, don't want a cumbersome dual voltage with bulky transformer that won't fit where I want to put it but can't seem to find one in local diy stores .

I need to add a timed extractor fan to my new upstairs toilet & I need to vent thru the roof tiles & access is easy from the loft & the roof itself Our roof is 1950's era clay tiles around 7" wide, what type of pipe vent do I need to make it waterproof ?

Just fitted our new cloakroom toilet with hidden cistern behind stud wall but the problem is the flush is too powerful & splashes over the rim a bit Reducing the amount of water in the cistern has minimal effect. Is there a means of slowing down the gush of water that comes down the curved...

Our Honeywell CH timer is like a lot of others & can only be set in 10 minute increments. We have our HW set to come on for just 20 minutes a day & we get a tank of piping hot water that lasts until the next timer setting, we found that 18 minutes does the job just as well. What's annoyed...

I posted a while ago re our noisy new warm front boiler, the noise was due to air in the pipes to & from the hot water cylinder which could not be resolved as it kept reoccuring even tho fitted with auto air valves, heating was completely silent however The warmfront inspector finally came &...

I need to repaper some walls where alterations have been done This is a piece of the paper, it's lightly embossed so either anaglypta, blown vinyl or super fresco but I can't find it anywhere altho it was popular several years ago when we did the original. Does anyone recognise it ? or...

I need to fix 3X2 framing to the plasterboard ceiling & wall to make a partition, what's the best method of fixing? The toggles I see in DIY shops look very flimsy & the hollow wall fixing plugs don't look as if they would be much good either. The frame will be a tight fit & tapped into...

I need to make a hole for 4" pipe thru a cavity wall which is over a veranda, what's the best way to carefully remove enough brick to get the pipe thru? The bricks are an incredibly hard 1950' type , is it best to try drilling out some of the old pointing till I can work a brick loose?

I am thinking of adding a wash basin in our dormer bedroom, the hot water cylinder is behind the wall in the loft area, as the dormer floor is about 10" higher than the loft floor it means that when I fit the basin it will likely be about level with the top of the cylinder. Will I get hot...

We are pleased with our warmfront provided Ideal icos boiler & new hot water cylinder. Up in the loft where the cylinder is I notice that altho there is an expansion pipe off the cylinder into the header tank there isn't one for the central heating as there was before. The original heating...

We finally got our new boiler from Warm front, it's an Ideal icos HE24 & I know Ideal boilers are considered poor but we had what we were given so can't complain. however the first five minutes after start up the boiler makes a lot of loud noises - some of which can be heard all over the...

Our hot water is not getting hot enough anymore, we have old gas fired indirect gravity hot water & pumped heating, I think that maybe the heating circuit is robbing the water tank of hot water, The 2 flow pipes from the boiler both go to a connection on the tank & share the expansion pipe...

We have a problem with our system in that when we have a nice hot tank of water it is cooled right down if we then run the central heating, The boiler has flow & return for the heating & also another pair of pipes which heat the water tank. I can't see why the c/heating pipe needs to go thru...