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Hi, Hopefully someone can help. We have a waste pipe coming from our loft conversion bathroom. It exits at the back of the house and has a 45 degree bend and then the it drops vertically through the house. We have had an "incident" where the pipe got blocked and then it cleared, but it cleared...

Gentlemen, An update so I followed the steps in the link above, located the expansion vessel and the Schrader valve on top. I pressed the Schrader valve pin and heard air escaping, so I presumed diaphragm in vessel ok. I then went to halfords and bought a mini digital type gauge from the...

Hi HDRW, Thanks very much for the prompt reply. I am looking at the boiler expansion vessel afternoon. I'll let you know what I find. The boiler manual doesn't say anything about how you recharge the expansion vessel - only how to replace it. I'm going to take alook to see if thats possible...

Hi, Hopefully someone can help? I have a system boiler ( Ideal mini S24 ) which forms part of the unvented system I have in our house.The boiler sits in the first floor of a three storey townhouse, right next to the unvented cyclinder. There are two valves, one for the unvenetd hot water...

Hi there, Hopefully someone can help? My ADG 7540 Dishwasher had water dripping out the bottom ( quite a bit ), I took the stainless plate off the base and there are two plastic tubes which look like they are there to allow water to drain into the stainless base. I think this is what has...

Thanks for the steer Big-all...apologies for delayed response, email account had issues.

Hi, Question regarding "good practice" with respect to woodwork, if I may? I am looking to install a wood engineered floor ( 18 -> 20 mm thick )over the existing pine floorboards in my sons bedroom. Theres no skirting board or architrave on the walls, as the rooms been refurbed. When I 've...

Hi, Question regarding "good practice" with respect to woodwork. I am looking to install a wood engineered floor ( 18 -> 20 mm thick )over the existing pine floorboards in my sons bedroom. Theres no skirting board or architrave on the walls, as the rooms been refurbed. When I 've layed...

No, no overflow pipe or anything. The external wall is rendered. Think thats what I'll do, put a DPC around the sill and frame and see what happens. I originally had the same thought about the glass and why doesn't that have condensation on it? I thought that as the glass surface does not...

No condensation on glass, brickwork is as old as the house ( 105 years ). No new work has been carried out other than the fitting of the windows. I can also see down the side of the window ( fitters have left me to fill the gaps with foam and put architrave round) and can't see any evidence...

Hi John, Thanks for the response . From your reply, I don't think I've explained myself properly :oops: The plastic sheet I insetred wasn't covering the gap. It went in horizontally and was sandwiched between the brick and the wooden underside of the window ( so the plastic was laying...

Hi, Hope someone can shed a little light for me. We have had wooden sash windows installed. In one particular bedroom ( whose extrernal wall is south facing and hence bears the brunt of the "weather" ) I have yet to make good the internal wall in the bedroom and between the underside of of...

Thanks for the ideas chaps. We are acutually going to address the floor on the rest of the downstairs ( after the kitchen work). If the original floorboards are no good then we were going to look at engineered wooden floor on top, so all I have to do then is pack the new floor off of the...

Mmm....Have to accept the step then or do without the insulation...thanks for the post Jo

Hi, Wonder if anyone can help? we have a kitchen which has a tiled floor. The sub floor is solid not timber ( presumed concrete ). We're having the kitchen "done" and would like electric underfloor heating installed. Everything I've read about ufh says that you should really put insulating...