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Hi guys Building a carport bewteen two opposite high walls. I ll attach a beam to one wall but how would i mirror the same position on the opposite wall please?

am buying a new fish tank, total weight when full is almost 1/2 ton. In order for the support to be there the tank will be hard up against the wall which between my home and my neighbour (semi detached) problem is I can't take up the floor and check as we paid a fortune to have laminate...

hi guys, hope someone can offer some help. My cistern stopped working so had to buy new flush bits. In order to fit I had to remove the cistern from the toilet. This was held on by 2 bolts though a metal plate which sat on a rubber donut. The cistern it self had no bolt fixing holes. So...

Hi Had a new kitchen fitted and we have noticed the cupboards sides above either side of the cooker have began to bubble, after only 2 months. The problem would seem to come from the steam from the cooker. We bought this cooker hood, but all it was, was an empty cupboard. So how does this...

Hi guys Hoping someone can help. We have a baxi combi boiler, about 4 years old and last service in September 2014. We have a shower, the mixer types with thermostatic valve and its always work ok. Anyway the other week I noticed a marked in crease in the water pressure coming from the...

Hi there I am removing a socket from a ring main and replacing this with a 13 amp fused switch box. from this I will spur of a single socket and another spur from the fused switch will connect in series 2 double sockets. The layout is all done, however I am concerned about the amount of...

Hi Guys I have a mira 88 shower, the type that runs off the cold and hot feeds, not from the taps but from the pipes in the wall. Last year I got a new combi boiler and noticed the shower began to drip after turning it fully off. Recently its got worse and now its a steady stream. I...

Hi Guys, I have a single socket that is below the kitchen work top and is used for the washing machine. Opening this socket reveals 2 cables entering. It was my plan to add to this socket a 3rd cable running to a fused switch to enable the addition of further sockets. Well the socket is...

Hi guys..have a question that i hope someone can help with..I have a massive fish tank that i need to fill with warm water, normally done by connecting a hose pipe to the mixer tape, but this doesnt work that well as its hard to keep connected. So was thinking of fitting to the hot and cold...

Hi there I have a baxi combi boiler, HE range, about 3 years old. I noticed a big puddle on the floor and traced the leak to the heat exchange automatic air vent. The little black screw in it was fully open and the water was coming from this. Its stained so looks like being leaking a...

Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a 5 meter stretch of single brick wall, 4 feet high with one row of decorative brick on top (see pic ). As we have no privacy at all, was think of building a fence on top of the wall. I would secure 4-5, 2x2 posts to the brick wall, my side secure 3-4...

Hi there. Am really confused as to how this all works. My gas bills have been huge and i have been told to try turning down the radiators thermostats. These are all set to number 3, max being 5. I have been told these will shut the heating off when each room reaches the...

hi hope someone can advise i have a 6amp mcb feeding the combie boiler. the cable comes from the board into a fused switch then into a 4 way junction box, with the cable split to the boiler and timer. i took one of the spare ways from the junction box and ran a cable to another fused...

hi guys, hope someone can help, i have a very odd question. My grandad bought a 1KW fan heater to use in his green house.He has a power supply in there which runs his drill and other equipment but will not run his heater. This is an extension lead ran from a 3pin plug in the shed,its 2 core...

hi hope someone can help, i have a baxi combi boiler 2 years old next month, during the cold snap i experianced a frozen condensate pipe which stopped the boiler working.I fixed that problem. Just had my gas bill for the last month,Nov 24 to dec 31 and it was £150.00. My question is the...

Hi i have problems with my central heating, having exhausted everything it basically cannot be fixed as the system is totally crap. if it turn the stat on the water tank to 0, water if forced to the radiators, when i turn the stat up water goes back to the boiler, this is the only way i...

hi, had a plumber round today as i have no hot water going to the radiators. the pump was new in january this year, but has began to make funny noises. the plumber thinks it may be faulty or that the valve maybe at fault thus causing air in the pump, hence the noise, he told me to remove the...