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I've just built a timber shed from scratch, to replace an old one that was rotting at the bottom, but now it's all finished I'm getting condensation on anything that has liquid in: paint pots, gas cylinders, weed killer, literally everything. It wasn't like this in the old shed. Can't work it...

Hi, What do we think of this situation from a professional stand point please? Boiler started leaking, only dripping a bit out the bottom, so I shut of the hot water taps and the water stopped dripping. I dropped the front cover and you could see the water was dripping from the Diverter so I...

Why oh why does it have to start as we are going to bed! Our Scantronic 9651 is beeping away now. It was showing low battery alert earlier and I have ordered a new one however in the mean time I took the electrics panel cover off to access the battery and now the key pad has started beeping...

Hi Was just about to buy 1.5mm twin & earth cable, which is oval, to wire up an external light but now notice the light specifies 6mm round cabling. I can't see round twin & earth anywhere, which cable should I buy? Screwfix, wickes etc. anywhere in southampton. Only need 4 metres! is this...

Hi I have a double socket inside the back room which has a plug and cable that leads through the wall to power the exterior garden lights via a transformer. Can I cut the cable outside and feed it in as a power supply to an exterior double socket if I attach one on the exterior wall? I'm...

Hi We have a new washing machine and it seems that the pipework taking the waste water out can't cope with the amount of water coming out. This was also a problem for the previous machine but it didn't seem to manifest itself until years after we had moved in. What's happening now is that you...

Hi Problem I'm having at the moment is that the boiler pressure only returns to 1.5 bar when cool. I released some pressure in the system by opening the bleed valve on a rad so it went back down to 1.3 bar but still now only returns to 1.5 bar after the heating has been on. Before all this...

Hi We have a Halstead Ace combi boiler in our place that we've been in for 12 years (it was already there). It seems to need the EV replacing as I repressurised it last year but I'm still facing the same problem now. The boiler drops to about 0.5/0.6 bar and works away happily but if you fill...

Hi We have a Halstead Ace High boiler which is supposed to be at about 1.2 bar when cold but when on it gets too hot and the pressure goes way too high activating the PRV. It seems to be happiest at about 0.5/0.6 bar when cold and we don't get any issues, but this isn't right is it? Even if I...

Hi I have 2 lights in the garden which run from the same light switch in the house (2lights, 1 switch). I want to change the lights to PIR activated lights which I guess is pretty simple. But do I just need to buy one pir light or do I need to replace both lights to pir lights. I'm guessing...

Hi I have a waste pipe which has started to back up a bit and cause overflow. The pipe drains from the kitchen sink and draining board, each has it's own trap (these are clear), then down towards the outside of the house. In the middle of the sink and the wall outlet is the washing machine...

In the photo attached you will see my loft space covered in about 12" thick insulation with a couple of holes cut into it where the downlights are in the bathroom. The question is can I put another layer of insulation over these holes to stop the cold air from the loft seeping down through the...

On my Halstead Ace High. I'm still getting a flashing Power light when you open the HW tap or turn on the CH, the pins are coming out of the diverter contacting the microswitches, the gas atrts up but then it all cuts out and the Power flashes at me. So now I've got not no HW or CH, at least...

Hi I will be installing a service/repair kit to the Diverter on a Halstead Ace High shortly. Seems pretty straight forward just checking anything I'm missing before I start: Turn off power Drain system (from rad) Drain HW (turn off water, open HW tap) remove diverter. Anything I need to be...

Hi Been getting a recurring issue with my boiler now whereby the green power light will flash and the boiler cuts out. Initially it was often when you put the turned on a HW tap whilst the heating was on. The HW would come but then when it switched back to the CH the boiler would cut out...

Hi Is there an alternative to Fernox DS 3 which I can use to remove scale from my Heat Exchanger in my Halstead Ace High? Everyone around heere only has the 2kg tubs around £25 and nobody has the 250g tubs which only cost a tenner. I begrudge paying £25 when I only need 50grammes to do the...

Hi I've searched back through the posts for this but can't find any solutions, so here we go: After running a bath the other day the boiler went to Lockout and the Red light came on. Pressure was normal at 1.0 and the boiler would keep locking out after being reset. Checking online it said to...

Is there any way I can tighten this window as it is noisy and therefore I guess it is letting in cold air. I can't see any sort of adjusters like you may get on a door. Thanks

Not quite sure which category this might fit into so I'm putting it here. We're suffering with some crazy humidity in our house and want to know how/where it is coming from and how I might tackle it. I have a couple of these cheap hygrometer and they're both giving similar readings. The...

Hi Moving on from a previous post today, I'm now cleaning out my HE with Fernox DS3 and after my first solution drain this is what came out as you might see the stuff coming out is black/brown. I was guessing the HE was blocked with Limescale build up as we live in a hard water area but...