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I have a conventional CH system - header tank in loft. The radiators are all pumped except for the one in the bathroom which is linked to the hot water cylinder and they are gravity fed. This morning an odd thing happened. I have the timer/boiler just set for the hot water, this morning I...

I’m writing this on behalf of an old friend who doesn’t have internet. Jeff is retired and no lives in a house he used to rent out in the south midlands. It’s an end Terrance built 1920 and solid brick construction. It was re-roofed 5 years ago and damp course re-done 4 years ago. External...

My Dad has a heating system which is the conventional sort with header tank in the loft. The boiler has pumped heating and gravity hot water. over the past couple of months the heating is fine, maintaining warm temperatures but the hot water is really just Luke warm. It does improve if the...

I have a thermostatic radiator valve that has started whistling if I set it to 4 or below. I’d usually have it on 3 but having to leave it open because it drives me up the wall! is there anything I can do with it?

Hi I have 4 rolls of wallpaper border to stick onto an existing wallpaper - which is a very simple/basic textured paper that has been painted several times with vinyl silk emulsion. the border paper is very similar to a heavy vinyl wallpaper and I need to know the best type of adhesive to use...

I live in a conventional 3 bed terrace House, which has an old conventional boiler (the sort with header tank in the loft) with a 1500kw output (I’m told), it has gravity fed hot water and pumped heating to the rads. I have been worried about the boiler simply because of its age and I want to...

I have an external and internal wall to plaster / render respectively, I recently saw a chap apply a compound to both the internal wall (blue coating) and the external wall ( a red coating) which he said was to give a good ‘key’ and much better than plain old pva washes. I forgot what he said...

So we are told that the only way to get rid of the virus from our hands is to either wash for 20 seconds in hot soapy water, or use a hand gel which must be alcohol based, alcohol is the only think that will kill it. we are also told that the coronavirus attacks the throat first. anyone see...

Does anyone else find it a little sinister that the ‘Remainers’ were all predicting food and medicine shortages as soon as we come out of the EU - which didn’t happen ......then along comes the coronavirus and now we have food and medicine shortages. never mind the Chinese, lets blame the...

This evening, about 5:30pm, I was sat in traffic when I glanced in my rear view mirror to see a guy in his Astra ..... with the headlights on.......and he was wearing sunglasses! The question has to be asked!

We have an older system for the hot water I.e. water tank (covered) in the loft feeding a copper cylinder in the airing cupboard. just lately the hot water has started to smell, even after running the water for a while. The odd thing is that it is less noticeable upstairs, when filling the...

I recently bought a small cupboard from Ikea. One board was damaged and I noticed it is some kind of lightweight laminate, which I could really use on another project I have in mind. Before purchase I just thought it was made from a melamine furniture board, until I noticed how light it was...

We’re on a tight budget, I’ve got a kitchen wall unit which is 600 wide x 385 high. I want to put a lift up door on it (with a stay, obviously). However, the top or ‘lid’ of the wall unit is 30mm thick, which means that a standard kitchen cupboard door hinge won’t do, because as the door is...

no sooner is one kitchen upgrade problem solved...when along comes another! Fitted a cooker hood a few weeks ago which has been working just fine but I do have an irritating problem. The vent goes straight out of the kitchen wall. Outside the vent cover (one of those square white plastic ones...

just fitted a fairly standard type of monoblock tap (Wickes Messina £79). On a brand new Franke Ascona sink. The problem is that the tap wobbles, or more correctly ‘nods’ front to back. It’s only slight, but in time limescale (we’re in a very hard water area) is going to form under the front...

hi, Over the past few days we have noticed a noise coming from our water pipes. The noise is similar to the normal flow of water similar to the noise from a toilet cistern filling, maybe not quite so forceful. If I turn to main stop cock off, it surprisingly doesn’t completely go away but is...

hi I am installing a cooker hood in the kitchen. My problem (potentially) is that the 150mm hole I’ll have to make in the outside wall is within an inch of two 22mm central heating pipes. The problem being is that of ensuring those pipes are sufficiently insulated, although there will, of...

i just purchased a cooker hood online which turned out to have come from Germany. It arrived with a European 2-pin plug (a substantial one, not a shaver type one) and is 220-230v at 50htz. I contacted the supplier ask if I can just swap their plug for a UK 13amp plug, they told me that I need...

we have a small kitchen where the best position for the cooker (free-standing gas) is positioned in front of a wide boxed section that hides water and boiler pipes. We need to install an extracting cooker hood, but all instruction on doing so are aimed at the hood being mounted direct to the...

Hi Had my hall and stair walls skimmed during the summer, now where the plaster meets the stair stringer (I think it's called), it keeps cracking. I have tried using chaulk, and really pressing it into the crack, but for the third time now it has re-appeared. I am wondering if there is something...