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Hi all My extension ceiling has been leaking for a year. The flat roof has been recently fixed (new felt). A part of the ceiling is moldy. An area of about 2 meter x 0.2 meter is moldy. It is right at the middle of the ceiling where is lowest point. I don't know whether this affects the other...

We have a new heating system installed in July 2013. The boiler is a combit Vallient. Since then, the water pressure keeps dropping. We have to add water into system in various time intervals, ranging from 5 days to 2 months. I heard this type of problem is probably because there is a leak...

Hi I'm going to tile a window. My question is how do I tile the upper part of the window and prevent the tile slipping down? Upper part is the vertical part, not the part facing downward. Adding to the challenge is that the window's upper part is round.

Hi all I recently removed some tiles in my bathrooom, and found a hugh patch of paster underneath is wet. This is the area near the shower. I guess it is because the water go through the gaps of the tiles and went underneath. The colour of the wet patch is dark orange and some of it is loose...

Hi all I have a serious rust problem with my stainless steel cooker hood. Around 90% of my cooker hood surface is stainless steel. At first, about half of the cooker hood becomes rusty, because of the wrong cleaning product. I then cleaned the rust a few times, but the rust still came...

Hi all I'm thinking to change the bathroom fan (basic) to a humidity fan or a timer fan. This bathroom is not far from a bedroom. Can someone tell me which fan is better? My original through is a humidity+timer fan (2 functions). but someone told me that a humidity fan might suddenly start...

Hi all I had a new heating system in August this year. The team who did the job is very far away from home (Birmingham). Since it's done, the first problem is water pressure. It fall to about 0.8 and the system doesn't work. So my husband called them and they remote controlled my hubby to...

Hi Can any combi engineer help with this? I'm going to buy my first combi boiler and don't know which one I should buy. I was adviced to get at lease 28kHW boiler. I also want a timer. No need for themo. I think of the cost and reliability of the boiler. So I would consider any boiler...

Hi all I took the carpet up and found a hole at the hallway close to the front door, I guess it used to have a door mat there. Because I need to make the floor level before putting laminated flooring in, I filled the hole with cement+sand+paper. I used a long piece of wood to level it, so it...

Hi all I cut through the alarm wire while i changed the carpet upstairs. The wire seems to go to one of the detectors. The wire has 6 colour little wires in it and a few 'cotton/firber'. Right after I cut the wire, the alarm went on. I use my password to stop it and then I re-connect the...

As topic. I have put a bare plaster board up on the kitchen wall and the kitchen is going to be tiled. I wonder whether it is a must to have the plaster board skimmed. Can I tile on the plaster board directly? I know it's usually skimmed, would the tile fall off if I just tile on the plaster...