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Using a Mira Mode bath filler and shower – shower works fine but in the last two days the bath won't fill (it operates via a dual button controller). A trickle of water comes out of the bath filler – I've taken the panel off and removed the attached pipe to the filler but still only get a...

I want to install a fold-down table in my garden cabin (built using 44mm width timbers) weight 8kg (specifically this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tables/dining-tables/norbo-wall-mounted-drop-leaf-table-birch-art-80091713/ ). I'm guessing it will be too heavy to simply use screws into...

I've had a week without any heating or hot water after problems with a 15-year-old Worcester 28CDi combi boiler. The symptoms (from Googling them) all seemed to point to a malfunctioning diverter valve (no hot water or heating, but pilot light was firing and calling for heat briefly) and the...

I bought a tin of this in a white tint on advice from a retailer: http://www.restexpress.co.uk/acatalog/Fiddes_Hard_Wax_Oil.html The tint is so light on untreated timber that you can barely see it and I wanted a slightly translucent white finish along the lines of this...

I have just had a garden log cabin installed. Have treated the exterior with a Sadolin Supadec opaque paint which has gone on just fine. Now my wife wants the inside wood to be white - it's currently bare. Would a water-based primer/undercoat and similar top coat be OK for this sort of wood...

Hi folks, have got a problem on a Zanussi TCE 7124 W. Wife been telling me our dryer was on the blink so I've cleaned all the filters today. They're all fine. Hot air is definitely being generated, but the clothes don't seem to be drying and there's no water being transferred to the water...

I had an existing power cable run from my house to an external garage when I moved in, all buried with SWA cable. I have now removed the garage and replaced with a garden office/log building. The cable is in exactly the same place, I just need to renew the RCD and run the new cable for...

I have a Belling double oven, model 151 - this one I think: http://www.chef-rangecookers.com/printable_pages/belling/belling-evolution151_152_153_printable_page.htm The upper right (conventional) and bottom left (fan oven) have both stopped working. The right-hand one went first about...

Wife's bag with keys and ID was stolen last night so trying to change lock on my uPVC door. Everything online makes it look nice and easy to remove cylinder retaining screw but mine seems to have some kind of barrier between the door side faceplate and the screw, preventing it from simply being...

Hi, am trying to change bathroom basin and taps. There is no stopcock to be found inside the house (only been here a year and never had a need to look before), no isolator valves on basin pipes and, having taken off bath panel, not on bath taps either. So I've pulled up the trap in front of...

Hi, just trying to isolate a problem. The shower and upstairs hot water taps do not work at all but the cold tap does. Downstairs there is no water running whatsoever. The heating is working fine. It's a combi boiler and there are no lights flashing (though the hot water light is off...

This is probably very basic - but how do I remove the cold tap on the mixer unit to fix a leak? Pic here: http://imgur.com/BNIXr.jpg I would have assumed prising off the blue circle and finding a nut/screw beneath but it doesn't seem to come off under a little pressure and I don't want to...

My mother lives at the top of a five-storey house and I want to sand the floorboards in a couple of rooms... but I don't fancy lugging those heavyweight belt sanders up all those flights of stairs. Is it realistic to sand floors using a decent orbital, or is there an alternative or more...

My garden's on a bit of a slope and the easiest thing appears to be timber decking across it. Anyone know the rough price to have someone in to do it? Garden's about 17ft square - obviously prices will vary quite a lot, but if anyone's had any done and can let me the know cost, that'd be helpful!

Unlike Scoby on another thread, I would - I'm afraid - like to finish off a few tree stumps and ivy roots/brambles chemically. The nearest thing I've seen in B&Q is Deep Root which I'm sure won't be powerful enough. Anyone know what I should be getting to finish these stumps and brambles off for...

Not the electrics, I have those connected and working no problems. My main problem is that three of my lights have fallen from the ceiling (saved from gravity by the flex). On two of them, the plaster/wood/whatever was holding it to the ceiling has come away. On a third light, the ceiling is...

I have taken the turf off my garden with a view to slabbing some of it. However, there is a considerable slope and without the skills to build a retaining wall, I am wondering if there's any way of keeping the slope but still tidying up the garden. I was going to put a circular pattern of...

Have just replaced a light switch in my back room with a dimmer. There were lots of wires in there, so have just replicated the connections from the old switch. All worked ok in the back room. However, on the other side of the wall (in the hall) is a switch that controls the downstairs hall...