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guys, After complaining that the job was incomplete, I received this email from the contractor… 1. The dirt on the wall is left by your previous extractor fan and it is the work of the painter to paint the wall. 2. Your previous extractor fan is an old model which we couldn't find in the...

Hi, When the mains in on, there is a gush of water that appears to well from under the tiles a few inches to the left on a radiator. When the mains is off the leak stops. I have booked a leak detector to come around (for 400 pounds), but recently noticed that they detect leaks, but do not fix...

my old dimmer has a red wire going into a terminal marked live and a blue wire going into a terminal marked load. Lastly a earth connected to the face plate which is metal. My new dimmer (see below), has a L terminal, which I think the red wire goes into. A L1 terminal, which I think the blue...

Hi, I want to output the sound from my TV to an 5.1 amp that is situated under the stairs. I've run cat6 throughout my house, so was wondering if I can bridge the coax output from my TV to the coax input on my amp via the cat6 cables.

Hi, I need to fill a gap (2 inches wide and about 6 inches deep) between my new extension and the neighbours concrete level. The damp course in the bricks is above the neighbours concrete, so I though I could fill it with gravel stones. Should I be worried about rain and fill it with concrete?

Guys, to make additional room for the next extension, my builder convinced me to take the chimney flue down. We don't use the fire place. However, neither he nor I thought about asbestos and the work has already commenced. I Jutst had a look and took some pictures of the flue, and didn't see...

I recently sanded and treated new oak sleepers with tung oil (three coats so far - all coats 50% white spirit to aid penetration). It doesn't give as dark a finish as I hoped (based on images that I'd seen on the net and worse, I just read that tung oil gives no UV protection and will not...