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Bought a new light fitting for our new house (new build), and the wiring diagram has confused me somewhat (it doesn't take much!)... light fitting wiring diagram So the problem I have is that our household supply has an earth, brown and blue, but not the fourth wire/core that would be...

At the beginning of the year we had our bathroom completely refitted and along with that installed a new Mira Sport Max air boost shower. As it is 10.8kW rated, we needed to upgrade all the cabling etc and that was done. Everything has been mostly fine, but it has recently started tripping...

We had a new suite installed in January, and up till now everything had been fine. The toilet has just started leaking between the cistern and bowl. I've emptied the cistern completely and stopped it filling, but it is still leaking - a constant trickling, which if I leave it too long is...

I've just started to remove some of the awful glosswork in our house that the previous owners had just painted layer on layer, resulting in the top layer flaking, and the doors not to close properly (and they left drip marks everywhere). I've just been sanding one door frame and found several...

We just about to have our bathroom refitted. It was a horrible 70s or 90s corner suite in beige with matching beige bathroom paint which hadn't been particularly well applied to, well, anywhere. Lumps, drips, flakes, mould and all sorts... There's no more mould, as we do use the window when...

We've just moved into a 1930's 3 bed Semi detached house that has a fair bit of condensation. The bathroom had no extraction fan and at the recommendation of several damp surveys and the original surveyor we've had a Vent Axia Centrif Duo unit put into the bathroom (installed yesterday)...

We just moved house and have changed the light fightings in the hallway. Its a 1930s house and there were some horrible lights in here from the previous owner. Upstairs hallway had a ceiling rose (1 bulb) with 5 wires, and it seemed easier as per the instructions that came with our new...

Hi, I appreciate this is not the car section, but am not looking for the responses that I have read on other forums which say go to the dealer and buy the parts as they are expensive and I am wondering if there are parts that are used in other trades that could do the same thing! I have...

Hi, I just bought my wife a metcalfe (professional catering equipment) sm5 mixer from eBay and picked it up today. It was demonstrated to me to be working when I went to pick it up, but when I got it home and plugged it in to our mains it wouldn't work, and then I noticed neither would anything...