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Hey, I have 10mm plastic pipe feeding a radiator in my bathroom. On one side I have the TRV and the other the valve. The compression joint at the TRV to pipe is leaking. I have tried tightening it a bit but its slightly worse so I think I am just mangling the olive... At the valve end the...

Hope this is in the right forum, I just want to check that this quote is in the right region before we go ahead with the work. A bit of background first, we have a solid fuel back boiler that has been in place for at least 10 years, probably longer in our house that we bought just over two...

Im doing up a room to be a nursery at the moment. I have removed all the old skirting and architraves as they are covered in 70 odd years of gloss paint etc. The plaster on the walls is pretty blown in places as well, the top coat is coming away from the coat underneath. I may have been to...

Can anyone help explain to me how my central heating system works? I have been in this house for two years and it has been fine but I don’t really know how it all works and its bugging me. Also I don’t really know what to set the thermostat in the loft too. Also its started to gurgle a wee...

This may be a daft question however I have a massive hot water tank in the loft (I have no idea how the previous owners got it through the loft hatch) that takes the output from my coal back boiler. The water tank heats up first and then a pump switches on once that's warm to circulate the water...

Hey, I have a bosch drill that I was given 4 / 5 years ago thats used for general DIY work around the house. Buying an 1940s ex council house two years back its seen some heavy use over the last year or so and the chuck has started to fail. When you use it on hammer the chuck will refuse...

I'm hoping for some recommendations on waterproof work trousers... Part of my work is outside work (bit of digging and a lot of kneeling ladder climbing etc) and part is inside peoples houses running cables etc. I'm looking for work trousers that are waterproof but have space for kneepads...

I have a 1940s ex council end terrace house. Its epic and I love it! However its a bit cold... there is a bit of a draft coming through the bathroom floor under the bath and coming up through the laminate floor. I was thinking that this would be easy enough to sort by squeezing under the...