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I tried to design a rear extension to my home that stayed within Permitted Development rules to avoid planning permission, but because of the rear building line i have to work with this isnt possible. My home extension will require planning permission because it is 5 meters from the rear...

My bedroom faces a main road, and its quite noisy at about 5am when the early starters drive past on their way to work. A few particularly keen people ride motorbikes with race cans past really fast and wake me up without fail every morning! The one guy is so loud i can have my head under the...

I have a 3 bedroom semi detached house. The upstairs gets extremely hot and stuffy in the summer and id like to install air conditioning. So far ive seen the wall mounted and floor standing air conditioning units, but what id like to know is: Is there a system i can install in the loft...

Im having my old combi replaced in a few weeks with a Worcester Bosch 30CDi. The installer who came to quote me for the work has suggested i have a MagnaClean Central Heating Cleaner fitted with the new boiler. Id like to know if these systems are worth having or are just a gimmick. My...

My Ideal Isar boiler gave up the ghost over chirstmas and im having a new Worcester 30CDi fitted in its place in 2 weeks time. I currently have a Honeywell CM67 thermostat / 7 day programmer in the hallway, wired up to the boiler. The installer who came today said he'd be able to wire the...

For the second time in 2 years, my Ideal Isar m30100 combi boiler has developed a fault. Last winter the PCB went and 'H / E' errors were displayed. Costly little fix that was. This time i have an alternating fault display. First 'F.' then 'L'. If i hold reset for 5 second here's what...

I do not have any photos to post of this yet, but they are forthcoming. As part of a larger job, the porch on the front of my house has been removed. Hidden away inside its roof was a much smaller original concrete proch roof. This is also a Lintel above my double width (1.5m wide) front...

My house was cold when got home today and i've found my boiler is not responding. I have just read the damning comments about this boiler while searching for advice - and would like to point out that i didn't choose it - it came with the house! The red LED light on the power switch is...