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Carbon Monoxide Detector placement
Okay folks hubby and I disagree over placement of new carbon monoxide detector. Gas boiler in bathroom hot press cupboard. No other gas appliances in house (2 storey house). Original detector placed in cupboard on ledge about 12” to side and same distance below boiler by installer. New detector instructions are confusing…
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RDB Central heating boiler
Does anyone know why I have to push the reset button on the boiler. Runs fine with the timer for a day or two and then cuts out. Thanks in advance
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Pop up sink plug jammed in bath...help!
0:beer:G/F away so decided on a nice bath (I get nagged if when she's here as I s End a long time in it lol!). Turned the metal dial to lock plughole (anti clockwise if I remember).. Seemed a bit stiff then. Had to resort to using a bucket to empty water into sink as WOULD NOT open despite all my turning! There is a little…
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Garden boundaries
Hi A new neighbour just moved in next door,he wants to move his garden fence into my garden, he recons they are not parallel but the fence has been in the same place for twenty years, checked the deeds but no mention in regards of the garden boundary Thanks
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A few millimeters of water after rain.
Hi all, Recently bought my first house with my partner. The weather has been wonderful and sunny, but we've had a couple of rainy days. We went into the cellar after said rain and noticed that there was a puddle of water, around 2 or 3 mm deep at the front of the cellar, which hadn't spread across the whole floor. Having…
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Artificial Grass
Hi guys, Need a little advise. I've been thinking about laying Artificial Grass in my garden. Have looked at a fair videos and it seems laying the grass is easy but the prep is difficult. My garden has very patchy grass and weedy, so it needs to go. Anyway all the videos I've seen, they create a perimeter, sub-base,…
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Insurance claims on building only taking ages
Hello we need some advice or opinions, we recently had a leak due to the last cold weather, we put a claim to the insurers (MoreThan) and we haven't heard anything for about 2 weeks we tried calling took over 1/2 hr then we had to give up taking ages then tried on they're web site, they're chat has disappeared it seems we…
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Bath Leak/Flood damage Estimate in my flat
Unfortunately, there's been a couple of accidents with water leaks in my flat - a flooded bathroom and a long term undetected slow leak in the kitchen in the last year. This has affected the 1st floor flat below me. I'm trying to avoid landlord involvement and so want to get an assessment from a surveyor. If the problems…
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Flooded house-advice on loss adjuster
Our home was flooded nearly 2 weeks ago, that resulted in the downstairs being ruined. We got in contact with the insurance company straight away and the have been great. But yesterday as my husband and I were leaving our home yesterday, a man came to our house knowing everything about what had happened. Well he is an…
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Rotten joists not identified on survey.
Recently purchased our first home. We had the homestart survey done which said some dampness to wall. Had damp specialist go in and assess/quote for work needed. All done before exchanging contract. Some damp identified on second survey, partial damp course recommended. So, went ahead with purchase and work for damp course…
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Compensation for time and inconvenience
The week before Christmas a pipe under the main road by our house burst and the first we knew of it was when we had 4ft of water in our cellar and utility and kitchen floor flooded. Yorkshire Water came out closed the road and repaired the break. They then sent their agents in to dry the house out and rip the flooring up.…
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Found open drain inside house
Hi. After having my cellar flood several times over 2 years (and neither the local council or the water board taking responsibility) I decided to pay for my cellar to be fully tanked out. As the builder was completing the work, they dug the floor to find an open drain in the middle of the cellar which looked to be taking…
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Plastic plumbing
We had to leave our 4 bedroom home in South Wales and it wasn't the right time to sell so we rented it out to a friend's daughter. She's been in it for several years now cos I can't quite bring myself to say we want to sell up (at least until her children are a bit older). 4 years ago a pipe apparently 'popped' in the wall…
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Should I turn water off in empty house?
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Really worried about asbestos in ceiling following a leak
I have had the week from hell with Dynorod, with a few simple jobs taking ages when they shouldn't have etc. and culminating in water pouring through my ceiling on Thursday. I'd had to call them out again because whatever they'd done had resulted in the bath cold tap dripping & as I'm on a water meter I thought I'd better…
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Dispute with roofer
Afternoon, I'm new on here and would really appreciate some advice. I have had a new roof on a side extension. It was paid for in three installments totalling £3875. The roofer arrived to day for the remaining balance and was shocked that it wasn't more. He was expecting £1000 more. My DH explained and showed him the…
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Help our garden is flooded!!
Hello, I really need some advice on what to do next. Over this summer (starting being of July) we started noticing water pooling in the border in our garden, we put it down to it being a wet summer and it was just rainwater. We do have very clay like soil. However, it got progressively worse and by August we had water…
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Flooding property from drain on road - please help!
The road outside my property has a drain in place. When it rains the surface water from the road goes into the drain but a large amount of water also runs off the large hill my house is at the foot of. Increasingly a huge amount of water pours through our garden wall and we have to use sand bags to divert the water away…
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Information needed re buying house in flood risk area
Hi all, We're helping my parents to move to a bungalow, and their favourite is in a flood risk area - in terms of being zone 1, 2, 3 with 1 being the highest, it's zone 1. Now I know this doesn't mean it will flood, but I also know that near to me in December 2015 certain areas that had never flooded before, did, given the…