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Hello all I'm handling the sale of my Mother in Law's 3 bed semi ex council house in West London. The buyer's surveyor has picked up that it has foam spray on insulation in the roof (done in 2004) and we need to have it removed and re inspected before the buyer can get their mortgage. As far...

Hello all My son's Nest thermostat has packed up (another story) but to get him going we have bypassed it by adding a switch as per the picture. The boiler is a simple Potterton combi. It seems to work just fine by manually switching it on and off but I just want to make sure I'm not causing...

I’ve just been out to my sons non-starting Hyundai. Turn the key absolutely nothing not a sound. Getting 12.6 V across the battery, turn the key and you can hear the relay pulling in in the fuse box, but no sound from the solenoid or the starter motor. The voltage doesn’t change when you turn...

Hello all Working on my son's 2011 i20 1.2 and noticed the Lambda reading has been creeping up on successive MOTs, and it only just crept in last year. I'm assuming that after doing plugs, air filter etc and checking for leaks, next thing is Lambda sensor? Any ideas how many, where they are...

Hi Folks My son's Hyuandai i20 2 door has had a dicky passenger side door lock than has now stopped working completely. Trouble is it's closed and locked! Any suggestions how to get it open? I've tried no end of pressing the remote and wiggling the handle from the inside. There is no key slot...

Hi all I have a loo that doesn't flush unless i remove the panel and lift the flush valve manually. I guess i need to swap it out, but how do you get it out of a concealed cistern without pulling the unit apart? Is it a bayonet fitting that just comes out through access panel?

Hi all I am fitting a Yale Conexis smart lock, and have removed the existing cylinider ok…. But in my door the cylinder sits in a sliding carrier which protrudes through the door at the front, so the Conexis handle assembly isn’t able to sit flush on the door…. See picture. I cannot see how...

Hello all Time to replace the alternator serpentine drive belt on my son's Hyundai i20. I have had a quick look at it and I can't see any sort of adjuster to slacken or take up the belt tension. Is it just a case of removing the alternator top bolt and swinging the alternator clear? Excuse...

Hello all We have a 2010 Hyundai i20 that won't turn over (but starts on a push). Ignition comes on all lights work etc. but on turning the key to the start position there is nothing, no solenoid click or anything, but the headlights and fan etc will go to nothing and the little cigar lighter...

Hello all Just had to go out my son’s Hyundai i20 2010, non-starter with flat battery. When I got there battery was almost turning the engine over but not quite enough, but it wasn’t totally flat. I hooked up jump leads and it started immediately and is fine now, except that the on-board...

Hi all My son has a Hyundai i20 1.2 petrol. Can anyone advise if the tappet/valve learances are the old fashioned screw/lock-nut type or are they shim/buckets? It's starting to sound a little tappety and i believe they do crop up as a service item (car has done 40K) Also anyone know of a DIY...

Hello all My 2010 Mini Cooper 1.6 petrol, 20K miles has developed a small oil leak. It looks to be coming from a screw in sensor which I assume is an oil pressure sensor, it’s mounted low down on firewall side of the block just above the sump joint, timing belt end of the engine and visible...

Just removed an LCD from a Dell Inspiron laptop in order to get replacement. However when ordering a new one I found a "how to" video on the supplier’s site and the first thing it mentions is that you must remove the battery, which I didn’t (but have now!) The laptop was switched off...

Just cleaned my block paving and now about to brush some clean sand into the gaps. However where bricks have been hand cut to fit curves etc some of the gaps are bigger than ideal (perhaps up to 5mm worse case). Would I be better brushing some dry mortar in and watering it with a watering...

Hello all I have dug our Sony combined VHS/DVD Surround Sound system out of the loft to play some VHS cassettes to enable recording to DVD. The VHS part has hardly ever been used but now when I put a video in it runs for a count of 15 (seconds?) on the little display and then ejects. I’ve...

Hello all I am about to fit a new heater element to my Hotpoint WM63 washing mc. Foolishly I did not make a note of which way around the old one sat in the drum before I removed it, so before I fit the new one can anyone advise? Facing the drum, should the green ceramic terminal be to...

Hello I have a Hotpoint Aquarius 1100 washing machine that has stopped mid cycle, just prior to the spin and is tripping the RCD. I understand that the likely culprits on this model are heating element blown, door switch failure or chaffing loom. I can check for chafing looms and blown...

Hi.... I'm installing some low voltage garden ligts and would like to incorporate a dimmer. My question is.... I have a standard dimmer switch (designed for low LV lights 40W - 300W and the lights are about 200W total).....but where does it go? On the input or output side of the...

Hi We have a Hotpoint Ultima WT 761 washing machine that causes the RCD to trip within seconds of being switched on. No fuses blow and I haven’t seen any fault codes. It’s about 4 years old I have done some googling and believe this may be cased by the heating element on its way out...