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I'm looking to replace a light switch in my living room as it juts out from the wall, so I opened it up to see what was going on. There's a really old looking light switch 'box' back there attached onto a piece of wood inside the lath and paster wall. I say box... it's round. My guess is that...

I've had my old stop cock repositioned. When I had a look at the work, a double check valve has been installed directly after the stop cock. Is this normal? I ask as it's making quite an annoying vibrating sound whenever any tap is on in the house. So I'm wondering if the plumber needs to...

Hello, I have a gulley at the corner of my UK house that's getting damaged due to footfall. The plastic grid is damaged and so is the 'hopper' (not sure that's the correct term)'s rim. It's on the main path around the house and is surrounded by gravel. 2 issues - if I replace the plastic grid...

Hi there, I have some bubbling paint on a hall wall. There's a shower on the other side of this wall so I presume there's water getting through the grout and evaporating through this side? 1. What's the weird fuzzy crunchy white material that's appearing and pushing the paint off the plaster...

Hi, I'm after some 2nd (qualified or non-qualified) opinions on my current plumbing issue. I have a bathroom with a really slow draining bath, a normally draining sink and a slow draining toilet where the water after flushed goes very high in the bowl. The bath when empty, gurgles after...

I'm about to put up a set of 5 heavy solid oak shelves. They weight about 7kg each with things like books to be sitting on them. I've decided to mount to the sides of the brick + plaster alcove they're going in rather than the back, which is a dot and dab wall. I'll be using using 6mm x 50mm...

I had the electricians out yesterday to check my new house's wiring. All good apart from some minor issues. Today I noticed that the light switch in the bedroom was turning the lights on in the up position and off on the down position. So I powered off, unscrewed the switch off the wall and had...

I'm going to be putting up some shelves into a brick wall (covered with 1/2 inch plaster) Heavy solid oak shelves. Each shelf is 7.1Kg Bought some metal brackets that say they can hold 100Kg+ and the holes in them accommodate a 5mm screw max. There are 3 holes in each bracket so I'm hoping to...