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We have a green coloured toilet bowl here. This has a common style, matching colour seat and hinge. The plastic bracket, which holds the rod to the seat, has broken. I tried to glue the fracture with epoxy resin. But it did not hold. Broken_hinge by Tobermory posted 3 Apr 2021 at 3:35 PM So I...

I have a ‘Bosch’ “Maxx 6” washing machine, Model (E-Nr.) number: WAE24064GB/30 FD 9412 606416. It seems to have failed. When I try to start the machine washing nothing moves and there is no sound from the machine. For example, if I turn the Program Selector to [40o]. Then press the “Start”...

I would like to drill a hole for a Rawplug in the side of a recess near to the top: Annotated_image by Tobermory posted 23 Jul 2020 at 3:50 PM I would like to drill the hole 8mm towards the interior from the edge of the white, plastic trim and 9mm from the inside of the top surface of the...

I am going to repaint the door of a shower cubicle. A lot of the existing finish has peeled from the frame. I am wondering what the easiest method would be to remove what is left of the existing paint? Here are a couple of photos of the frame: SD_composite by Tobermory posted 29 Apr 2020 at...

Hello. I am putting rope top edging along the borders in our garden, using edging stones and dollies sold by my local Homebase: I would like to cut a few of the stones to a shorter length, so that I can finish off runs neatly. They do seem to be quite fragile and disintegrate easily when...

Hello. I have some flexible hose with an internal diameter of 1” (25mm) and I am hoping to make a garden hosepipe from this. However, I am struggling to find a suitable coupling to connect the pipe to my 1/2" garden tap. And something suitable for providing a spray nozzle at the other end. I...

I laid some oak, engineered wood flooring. Two types in two areas: 1. Reclaimed, oiled wood finish flooring in one room. 2. Lacquered finish flooring in another room. I never considered what I should do to maintain the appearance of the flooring until now. I just bought a Ewbank EP170 floor...

I have a ’Glow-worm’ 60 FF boiler. Apparently it is the earlier “Honeywell” version (GC No. 41-319-99) rather than the later “Glow-worm” version (GC No. 41-047-56). This despite the legend of “Glow-worm” on the top left of the information label inside the casing.(?) Anyway there is a hole in...

My late Mother had a 3’0” by 6’6”, 'Theraposture', “Theramatic” electric bed. One of those with motors to raise and lower the ends and a massage function. Since it cost £1,360, I contacted various, local hospices and charities to see if they would like the bed, including ‘Age UK’ who sell them...

The barrel mechanism in the lock on our back door catches / sticks a little sometimes. I have oiled it but this does not seem to have improved the movement. So I think it is time to replace the lock. I have never done anything to one of these multi point locking mechanisms before. Should it be...

Occasionally there is a loud, “vibrating noise” in the water pipes here when we turn a cold tap on. Often when this happens the noise can be stopped, by closing the tap some of the way. Sometimes the tap has to be turned off completely. In a couple of instances the only way to subsequently...

I have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet Series II printer. Which I put in a cupboard a decade ago. Together with a spare toner cartridge and a couple of additional font cartridges. The printer was working fine before I stored it. Is anyone likely to want one of these nowadays? Or is there nothing...

Where can I buy a rectangular piece of steel plate from? Preferably galvanised. 1m to 2m long, 30mm to 43mm wide and around 5mm thick. Something that I may stumble across if I keep looking around. But I have no idea where I should go to buy something like this. Either locally or on the web.

I have one of the new style electrical devices, which can be configured through an Ethernet port. The device has an RJ-45 socket for this purpose. And can generate a GUI through a web browser. Apparently it has fixed IP address (192.168.5.11). I would like to access the device using my Sony...

I have a Flymo Vision Compact 380 hover mower. Last time I tried to use it nothing happened when I held the grip of the power switch in place. I have now looked at the state of the mower in a little more detail. When the power switch is operated 240, ac volts are present at the terminals...

> We have two document boxes and have mislaid the keys to both. And we now wish to get inside them to retrieve their contents. I would be grateful for any suggestions as to how we might best go about this. We are not particularly worried about what happens to the boxes themselves in the...

I recently erected a summerhouse. Having previously had a concrete base for it constructed by contractors. The base the contractors have provided is pretty much what I asked for. And I am now wondering whether I should have specified that the base should slope slightly or something similar...

I was hoping to erect a summerhouse here this weekend. Unfortunately two of the panels were blown over on Wednesday and one of them is broken. A brace of the side of the frame of this panel has fractured. But I can easily repair this. What I am not certain about is what to do about a...