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I need to lower my kitchen table by 35 mm. The legs are turned but the top is 100 mm square section. I have a hand held Skilsaw Duran, but it can only cut 65 mm max in one pass. I can't do a partial cut then turn the timber because the riving knife prevents the blade moving forward. There's no...

The ice maker on my fridge freezer has stopped dispensing. It makes ice but the flap won't open. I find that there is a solenoid mechanism behind the front control panel but cannot find a way to access this. I've found videos of people sticking instruments in around the edge and unclicking it...

I went round bleeding all the radiators with the CH on. Two tall rads were a really slow to bleed so I turned the pump speed up. Probably a bad idea. When I got to the bathroom it got quite noisy and I looked at the boiler and it was indicating 99 degrees. It's a Worcester Greenstar HE, about 15...

I have a small 60x60 cm radiator on my kitchen wall. This is an outside wall, at least 150 years old with 2 layers of brick and a lath and plaster inner liner. I hung the radiator using spring out plasterboard fastenings, but a visitor has accidentally fallen and partially dislodged it, damaging...

Not a DIY question as such, can anybody tell me if it's usual to have lath and plaster covering the inside surface of an external wall? My terraced house in Scarborough has parts which may be 250 years old. In 1860 they pulled down an end wall and rebuilt this with two layers of brick and a...

My Sunvic TLX7501 digital thermostat has just packed in and it appears to be no longer available. Can anybody tell me what a suitable equivalent would be. This is a mains wired 2-wire thermostat in a box 85x85mm. I'd prefer one with a digital display but not a wireless version.

I have a lean to conservatory with a steep angled roof (pitch ca. 40 degrees). The glass panels are in 2 sections each about 2 metres long, so each section has 4 metres of double glazing, which is pretty heavy, and some of the glass has slipped. The original installer went bust and it's well out...

I've got a Bosch POF 1200 AE router. So far I've only done minor bits of edge trim, but I want to trim down a table which is too big for my kitchen. This involves cutting the top to size, then rounding each corner to a 4.5 cm radius, then running all the way round with a moulding pattern. It's...

I have a Big One radiator as seen here. It was installed maybe 15 years ago, and I've asked for info from the main supplier in UK and also Raganradiatori who I believe to be the manufacturer in Italy. Nothing so far. My problem is that only the central column gets hot, the others hardly at all...

I'm installing a diverter to send surplus solar electricity to my immersion heater. The best location for this is in my garage, but I have to identify which cable to splice into. I can find the cable at the fuse box but it then turns into a mass of cables in the loft which are not labelled. Is...

I have a damp problem which I've been advised is due to salts from a chimney coming through a wall and causing the surface to be hygroscopic so damp air condenses on it. I've had window repairs so hopefully have reduced the level of damp air getting in. The advice I was given was to have all the...

I want to replace the seat on my Azzurro toilet. The new one i've got has what i recognise as conventional fixings but the old one has a threaded rod and what seems to be a nut buried inside the porcelain and I can't get anything on it to undo it. How do I get it off? I see some seats have a...

I'm about to have a shaver socket fitted in my bathroom. I've got an MK K701 unit. It's big and chunky with an isolation transformer which I'm not that keen on. There are smaller units which i've seen in continental hotels which i believe are unacceptale in UK. I'm concerned that the tranformer...

My combi boiler periodically refuses to heat up when it's windy. My house is right on the coast with the vent sticking out of the wall on the 2nd floor, so the last couple of days have been problematical. Once the weather is OK it acts normally and relights automatically. I know that there...