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My home security alarm is working fine other than the sounder doesn’t sound! If I activate the alarm, I hear it inside the house but there is no sound outside from the sounder. I don’t know what make the sounder is but I have attached an image of it below. It's a wired system and I can see a...

I need to repair the damaged/missing sections of the sandstone window cills to the bay window shown. The cills have unfortunately not been maintained by the previous owner and have deteriorated to the extent that they have crumbled and fallen away in places :( I was thinking of doing the...

I am looking to have a 2 gang light switch fitted on my Landing close to my Bathroom which is towards the rear of my house. One of the switches will turn the Bathroom light on and off and the other will turn the Landing light on and off. There will also be another light switch outside the...

Water is filling-up too high in the cistern and is then running into the overflow pipe on the flush valve. I assume I need to make an adjustment on the inlet valve to cut-off the water supply before it gets too high in the cistern but how do I do it?

I have a Main Combi 24 which was working fine up until a couple of days ago when I noticed that the pressure gauge reading had dropped to zero! I checked for leaks and there were none that I could see. I also checked the PRV outside and it was bone dry. I topped the system up to 1.5 bar via the...

I have a Vaillant ecoTEC pro 28. The house that it is in has undergone some recent refurbishment. The boiler was tested before the work started and was working fine. The only thing that is different now is that the original room thermostat is no longer present as it was damaged during the work...

I have solid floor in the Kitchen/Diner in a 1900's terrace house which I am refurbishing. The existing floor is out of level, sloping by about 45mm over its length from front to back. The floor had timber floorboards laid directly onto the original concrete and the floorboards have now been...

I am having a complete new rewire carried-out in a residential property. Regarding the installation of the new sockets, I have two questions: i) is it compliant to have any of the new sockets on a radial circuit fed from the board rather than on a ring main and ii) is it compliant to have any...

I have an AEG 79852G Gas Hob which is shown below In the off position, all indicator lights above the control knobs should switch off however, you might just be able to see from the photo that the 2nd one from the right hand side does not? I have removed the control knobs and the...

I have a Worcester 240 combi boiler and was recently having problems with my hot water temperature being 'cooler' than it used to be. I read up (mainly on here) and the suggestion seemed to be that if my central heating flow pipe was heating-up with the heating off when the hot water was run...

I have a Moffat gas hob. It lights ok and all 4 burners work as they should when they are switched on full, but when the burners are lowered, the flame goes out. I have noticed if you turn the burners down really slowly, they will reduce the flame and it does stay lit but if you turn them down...

I have just had some ribbed entrance matting fitted in my porch. It's not an inlaid matwell type product, it is laid directly on top of the concrete floor and is like a thick ribbed carpet (for want of a better phrase), which I believe is supposed to 'scrape' the dirt off the bottom of your...

I have about 8 or 10 loose and cracked 300x300mm floor tiles in my Kitchen. I am thinking about hacking these out, cleaning off the adhesive down to the concrete floor slab and infilling the space left in between the existing tiles and then laying some cushion floor over the entire floor to...

I currently have a Worcester 240 combi. No problems with it but it's about 13 or 14 years old and I think it is probably not running at its most efficient these days. I am therefore thinking of swapping it for a new boiler:- 1) Do I have to have a condensing boiler fitted these days? 2) The...

I have been told that a property that I rent out needs to have its chimney cowl removed and replaced as the flue is Class 1 and the cowl is Class 2. The cowl fitted is pretty similar to the one shown in the picture below ie it looks like a terracotta ridge tile fixed on top of the chimney pot...

I need to replace the syphon on my cistern but the wingnuts are rusted to the threaded lengths of fixing bolt. Are there any tricks to removing the wing nuts without snapping them off? I've sprayed lubricating fluid and left to soak in but they won't budge :?

Can anyone tell me the manufacturers name for the syphon shown in the pictures below. Also, what should I expect to pay for a replacement one. Thanks.

I had a large wagon deliver some stone for my driveway a while ago and the wagon cracked one of the 3'x2' flags on the pavement outside my house and several other flags are uneven and really need taking-up and relaying. Are there any rules for carrying out such works on the public footpath?

I have just had my house rendered and tyroleaned and now need to paint the brickwork between the underneath of the bellcast (which is just above DPC level) and the outside ground level. What is the correct paint to use for this particular area. I wasn't sure whether standard gloss or...

I need to fit a couple of new plastic rainwater gullies. I only need about a 1ft length of pipe from each new gully, down to get me past the 1st socket on the existing salt glazed pipes which I am connecting onto. I already have some offcut lengths of black above ground 110mm dia. soil pipe...