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Hi all, I have an issue with my shower enclosure and hoping someone can help so i dont have to replace it all. A plastic component, which sits on the end of the door bar and appears to hold the glass panel between the door and wall in position, has broken. One of the notches, as shown in the...

Hello guys, Just paid to have an Orisec alarm installed in my house. 5 wired PIR's, 2 wireless, 2 door contacts, control panel with wired controller and wireless controller. Came home and HKC kit has been installed. HKC 1070 panel. Anybody advise on diff between the two please? Thanks

Hello, I have just replaced my old dishwasher with a new Bosch SMS53M08GB. I don't think the missus has used it yet but think I got the pipes the right way round and attached properly. Whats the worst that can happen.. :) I noticed the old unit had a pressure limiter built-in on the water...

Hello, Just converted the loft, which is going to have a carpetted bedroom and family room up there. After being fobbed off by Carpetright with just their PU ranges, Im learning their might be better alternatives... I see Cloud 9 Cumulus has been popular, which looks to be PU based...

Hello, So got a builder to point part of my house, using 3.5 NHL 1:2.5 mix. My first experience of pointing a house/having house pointed. Whilst the actual pointing looks fairly good so far (job ongoing), there are numerous mortar marks on the faces of the bricks.... Now, is this...

Hello, I am about to repoint my house but am unsure about the type of mortar to use. House was built c. 1900, so from what I have read lime mortar seems like the likely choice. From reading other posts on here, 3.5 NHL could be the one.. It has been suggested to me that a 1:1:4...

I have recently woken to my hallway being full of water thanks to the outlet pipe from the Monarch Midi Meter water softener in my house having broken off. So water pouring out the back ruining wooden floor. Not very impressed. A friend mentioned that a Megaflow can only be used with a couple...

Hello, Had a few issues with water today, in the end got a plumber out to sort out boiler which was not turning on. During his investigation he was moving the plastic 22mm pipe trying to get to a sensor behind it. Now ive turned on the heating and one of the elbows is dripping, very...

Hello On my 1900-odd house on a section of the wall part of the brick work below the DPC has been knocked around a fair bit. I am getting the house repointed and the builder suggested plastering over the bottom and up to the DPC to tidy it up. Now that would make it look better, however I...

Hello, I have a shower with flow powered by a Monsoon pump in the room below. The pump failed about a month or two ago now after a couple of weeks of irregular operation. Ideally, after turning the shower on the flow would start slowly and then the pump would or kick in a few seconds later...

Hello, Looking for some advice please. Had my bathroom revamped by a builder nearly 2 months ago and had a Hudson Reed Twin Concealed Thermostatic Shower Valve (A3099C) installed upstairs. Had the downstairs toilet redocrated at the same time. Wallpapered. This morning, 7 weeks later...

Hello, I am looking to switch over to a mains pressure from gravity system. In the room where the cylinder will be sited there is a sink already. Can the discharge pipe from the cylinders pressure and temperature relief valve be fed into the sinks waste pipe? If so, can the discharge...

Hello, Looking to replace plastic switches and sockets with chrome. I have checked Toolstation and Screwfix and they dont seem to have the ones i want. Looking for raised switches with screws, white inserts, but with metal rockers....should be fairly standard i would have thought.. I...

Hello, We have an existing cellar, part of which extends 7ft past the foot print of the house. The external part suffers from condensation on the concrete roof. The internal part does not. As the steel beams in the ceiling of the external section are heavily corroded and the roof is not...

Hello, I am contemplating changing the gravity fed system in my house for a main pressure closed system. Mainly to make more room in the loft. Someone has mentioned that I will need to changed the water cylinder for a bigger version if I switch over, also that one reaosn for switching over...

Hello, Got the start of some rust, a few light spots and red-ish areas starting, following cleaning the carpet, on a steel fireplace fender. Is a rust remover product a bit excessive, would some fine wire wool do the job? Cheers

Hello people, Anyone faniliar with this model? Just moved into a house with this cooker. The previous owners apparently broke the light wihilst cleaning it. Now whilst we attempt to use it some of the cooking methods are not working, making me think the main oven/element is not working...

Hi folks, I've just checked through the old posts and couldnt find an identical one so will post my problem here, although I've a feeling (or I'm hoping) it could be a simple solution.... Just moved into a recently built (rented) flat with a Pulsacoil 2000 system. The first 4 weeks the...

I need to vent my frustration somewhere. I have just had an engineer from Domex come and 'repair' my washing machine. To be fair to them they also fixed my cooker recently and did it without any fuss, which is why I called them back. An engineer comes and the washing machine has actually...

Hi guys, Can you help with the following issue please? We have used our AEG OKO Lavamat Turbo for c. 4 years, it recently started tripping the lower ground electricity. Whenever the power was turned on on the washing machine, the electricity on the ground floor tripped. To save time we got...