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Hi, I had a new UPVC window fitted in my daughter's bedroom a few weeks ago, not sure if it's relevant but we got triple glazing to replace the old double glazing to reduce noise from the road outside. Anyway, the company fitters managed to break all the new window's beads whilst trying to fit...

Hiya, we really want to reduce the noise we get from the main road that our 2 bedrooms overlook, we were thinking about getting secondary glazing, but my husband saw an ad in the paper the other day for triple glazing with Britelite, with 40% off (they probably always say that though!) I got...

Our bathroom radiator stopped working the other week, it's only 3 years old with the new bathroom we had fitted, so I called heat-team who we have boiler, controls & radiator cover with. The engineer came yesterday, really nice guy, but since he left several more rads have stopped working...

hi everyone, i hope you can maybe help advise a girl in need! right, i have an 06 vw golf 1.6 auto, fsi model. it had to have a new engine put in by vw recently (long story, i bought it at a knocked down price to allow for this). before it went to have this done, i had no problems with the...

Hi, We have the old polystyrene bead cavity wall insulation, and it's leaking like crazy. Every time the wind blows even slightly, it covers the garden. We've been trying to locate the "leak" for months with no joy. Does anyone know any companies in the Kent area that can remove the old...

Hello there, My wife and I have lived in our 1972 semi-detached home for two years now. Last year I noticed an alarming amount of polystyrene balls in my garden and was informed that this is our cavity wall insulation escaping. These balls are also an inch or so deep in some parts of our...

Hi all, please help a total novice, I don't want to have to call a plumber round for something I think is probably so simple I could fix myself. New bathroom installed a few months back. We have Cifial techno 35 deck valve taps on bath. The chrome top of the deck valve is attached on top of...

We got home tonight a few hours after plumber had left for the day - having new bathroom fitted - only to find he had left a pipe running and our floor was flooded! Gutted. The water was dripping down into the kitchen below through the wall tiles, pools of water on worktops and on the floor...

Hi, a few weeks ago we had a couple of radiators taken off and put back on for some plastering to be done. When the plumber put them back on he said he'd also turned our pump up to make the radiators more efficient. Since then the hot water taps in the house have gradually been losing pressure...

Hi, when we took a power socket off the wall we stupidly broke the screw and there is some thread stuck inside the hole in the metal plate where the screw should go in. We've tried pulling it or pushing it out but it won't budge so we can't screw the socket back on the wall at the moment! Any...

I am posting a lot on here at the mo as hubby and I have just moved into new house! When our thermostat kicks in and the heating comes on, it makes a loud thunder like noise for a few seconds, is this normal or dodgy?!

We have lots of horrible Artex in our new house - do you HAVE to remove it and re-plaster, or can it be plastered over??

We lost our Sky signal yesterday and have to wait a week for the engineer to come round! We thought we could just plug the aerial cable into our TV and watch terrestrial in the meantime, but it won't fit! There is a funny screw like fixture on it that the engineer put on when he set up Sky and...

Our front bath panel needs replacing, but do the ones you can buy in places like B&Q only fit the suite they come with? If so, does anyone know where we can buy just an individual universal-fitting panel?! Just a plastic white one will do. Thanks

Hi, is there a tool out there that I can use to test if there is an electrical fault with an appliance? I need to find out whether my bathroom extractor fan isn't working because there's a problem with the fan itself, or if the problem is with the electrical supply. I remember when I had an...

i'm a girl, know nothing about tiling, grouting etc, but thanks to my neighbour hammering at something the other side of my kitchen wall, about 6 of my tiles have fallen off! they're not damaged and i'd like to have a go at putting them back up myself. please can you tell me: 1. what tools...

We have a problem with the grout in between the tiles around our bath - it has gone all orange and even black patches in places! We tried re-grouting but made a right mess of it, so I was wondering if these grout cleaning sprays you can get from places like Homebase work? I also saw a tube of...

I had my Y reg Peugeot 206 serviced yesterday and was told I'd need a new cambelt within the next 3 months - the garage quoted £150 + VAT to supply and fit. I am a lady so have no idea if this is the right sort of price for this?? :oops: Please could someone advise if this quote is...

With all this heavy rain at the moment ( icon_sad.gif ) I've noticed a pretty bad leak coming from the roof of my Y reg Peugeot 206. I've located it coming from where the aerial is attached to the roof, and water is dripping through into the inside where the interiot light fixture is! First...

With all this heavy rain at the moment ( :( ) I've noticed a pretty bad leak coming from the roof of my Y reg Peugeot 206. I've located it coming from where the aerial is attached to the roof, and water is dripping through into the inside where the interiot light fixture is! First question -...