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    Yet another PIV question, sorry! Suitability/location for a looooong Basement flat...

    [Moved from Your Projects forum to abide by forum rules] Morning all - yes I've searched the forums and nothing matches my situation as far as I can see, so here goes: Victorian (c. 1865) basement flat beneath 5 floors. Our floor is concrete over brick and there's probably no DPC to speak of and...
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    Bathroom has been Triton membraned - how to lay a floating floor?

    Woops - posted this on the wrong forum yesterday - berk! Hi We are in a basement flat and have had the dreaded rising and penetrating damp in our bathroom (measures 3.2m by 1.8m, so we had it totally stripped out and had a damp specialist fit Triton membrane (8mm to walls and ceiling, 20mm to...
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    Render & plaster on damp internal bedroom wall below ground level?

    Hey ho - our flat is the basement of an 1860's building and as expected it's plagued with damp :-( We stripped the plasterboarding in the corner of our bedroom today as the wallpaper was lifting and we could tell the plasterboard underneath was pretty manky. Pic shows the wall we've uncovered -...
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    Danfoss Wireless thermostat losing signal

    Hi Does anyone have experience of these? Fitted one a couple of days ago, sender unit is in the hallway about 10 metres from the receiver in the back room; there's not a direct line of sight between them, there's a brick wall and a corner. Anyway, the receiver keeps losing contact with the...
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    TOP TIP - Y Plan motorised valve actuator

    Just fixed my mother-in-law's central heating! She had exactly the same prob I had 4 years back - heat not getting to the radiators although boiler, pump, stats etc working fine and no airlocks. Checking the pipes into and out of the three-way valve, it's HOT from the pump, HOT to the Hot...
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    V. old system, all parts seem ok, rads not heating up

    Hi chaps I've a fairly simple but oild system, Grundfos Selectric pump, potterton boiler in a single-floor flat with 6 rads - single flow pipe from pump feeds to 1 rad then splits two ways to feed 2 and 3 in the rest of the flat. The boiler comes on ok and the pump seems to be running (light...
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