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Hi, I hope someone can give us some advice.... We have a conifer hedge that acts as a great barrier along our back garden onto the road - the problem is that my kids get itchy and a rash from this everytime they go in the garden (especially when they kick the football in it and have to delve...

thanks for the advice.... i'll have to look into the water company issue re jet washers - i wasn't aware of that !

Hi - I hope someone can help... we have a long fence in our garden and several panels are covered in what appears to be a layer of green moss (there is no pattern as to which panel gets it so I have no idea why it appears where it does). We want to re-stain the panels as they look a right...

We are looking to replace our fireplace with a new one (wood or marble surround, gas fire etc) but we don't want to spend much as we will be moving in about a year. Can anyone reccommend a good place (either on the web or physical shop in the hampshire/surrey area) that is relatively cheap yet...

thanks for all the advice - all sorted now :D

I hope someone can help explain what is going on here.... I am trying to put a new light fitting up in our bedroom, and so took the old one down expecting to find two pairs of wires (each with live, neutral and earth) but what I have actually connected to the old fitting was four sets of wires...

I hope someone can help.... We have a fence and we want to grow a large bush/shrub/tree by it to act as screening - we have a choice of laurel, holly or photinia red robin - does anyone know which of these will grow the fastest ? Basically we want to get to about 10-12 feet in as short a...

This is interesting.... We are having a new ceiling in our kitchen as the existing ceiling has many spotlights (14 x 60w "normal" spotlights !) and we are reducing the numbers and moving them, so we planned to have new plasterboard put up to put the new lights into (8 x 50w halogen). We were...

Can anyone give some advice on quick growing trees.... Basically we have a gap along our wall of about 3 metres wide and we want to plant a tree that will grow quickly to fill this and will go to about 4-5m high. We would prefer to buy something that is already about 2.5-3m high. We...

thanks for the comments everyone. I called the installer and he is coming round at the weekend to look at it. Can someone comment on how easy it is to fit a magnaclean - can I do this myself or should I get the plumber to do it ? thanks....

I watched as they went around and turned each rad off in turn as they did the powerflush, so I presumed that they had done it correctly. Also I watched when they put the inhibitor in the tank in the attic. As you suggest I will call them tomorrow and get him to come around (I kept a sample of...

We had a new boiler (Potterton Suprima HE) fitted about 6 weeks ago, and the whole system was powerflushed and had inhibitor added and TRV's fitted etc. When the powerflush was done the water initially came out fairly dirty, but after a couple of hours was flowing clean. (we also have microbore...

Thanks ChrisR The immersion is swtiched off. When I turn the knob on the thermostat - which is currently set as low as possible at 50 - it does clcik and come on again when it gets to about 60..... if I turn it back down it then clicks off. However, even though it is set at 50 you cannot put...

Ok, here comes a really basic (ie dumb) question.... ! I think that the thermostat on our hot water tank has gone, as the water is getting scalding hot even when it is turned down low, and no matter what temeperature I select on the thermostat the water temp does not change. It is a Honeywell...

We have just noticed that some of our rads are coming on with the hot water. We have a heated towel rail in the main bathroom that comes on when the hot water is on, and have also noticed that the towel rail in the en-suite comes on with the hot water and the radiators in two bedrooms also comes...