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Hello, I have a problem with an overflow pipe that juts out from the first floor of my 3 bedroom house. Most days now for the last few weeks, there is a steady stream of water emerging from this pipe onto the roof of our lean-to immediately below; always it seems, in the early hours of...

Hello there, I have a problem with the electrics on my Triton Ivory II shower. It suddenly stopped working the other night after a particularly cold weather spell in which I felt I had to turn the thermostat up to 10 to obtain water at a reasonable temperature (we normally run...

Hello, I've recently removed an old fluorescent strip light from my kitchen to replace it with a more modern spotlight consisting of 4 bulbs. I'd guess that the old light has been there since the 70s or 80s and has a confusing array of paired brown and red wiring making it very...

Hello, I've recently bought a 200yr. old cottage abroad quite cheaply with the view to renovate the place myself as and when I can. One of the features of the house that needs some attention is the roof - though only cosmetically it seems i.e. it's structurally sound but rather grey with...

Hello, I'm looking for some independent advice on my Glow Worm Majorca which I estimate is probably over 25 years old - maybe older. Last winter was our first in our new house and we had to call out a heating engineer twice because the pilot light blew out (not cheap at £80 a time.) We...