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I need to reinsulate my loft ahead of next autumn. The current insulation is not deep enough to current standards. Can I lay directly over the existing insulation to make up the extra depth or are there certain materials that shouldn't be laid next to each other.

I want to build a brick barbecue before the summer. Does anyone know where you can buy the charcoal and grill trays?

The radiator in my utility room stopped being hot a few days ago. I tried bleeding it but no air came out, just water straight away. The valve is set to the highest setting and no one has turned it off. All other radiators are working fine. Any ideas.

A couple of queries........... I am redecorating my bathroom shortly and part of the work consists of replacing the existing light above the mirror and installing a heating pad to the back of the mirror which also requires an electrical question. Ideally the heating pad should only work when...

I will be shortly painting my hall/stairway/landing. Given the height of the wall in the stairwell I am intending to do it in two lifts over two weekends as on the second weekend I'll need a platform on the stairs to get to the top. Question is, will there be a noticable join halfway up the wall...

With the hosepipe ban over I decided to save a few quid and wash the car at home yesterday. I ran the hose from the mixer tap in the utility room with hot and cold on full. A while after using the hose, water started trickling from the coldwater tank overflow pipe sticking out under the eaves...

I am currently laying a new laminate floor (real wood with oak veneer, made by Westco, bought in Homebase) which looks quite nice. Only thing is, it is proving far harder to lay than I think it should. It is a glueless system and the tongue and groove is really tight and I have to whack the...

I've just bought a light fitting for my kitchen but have noticed that there is nowhere on it to connect the earth wire to. What should I do with the earth wire ?

Is there a product available to seal up minor cracks (shrinkage and movement ones) in external plaster before repainting ?

I would like to replace my bathroom mirror with a new one with a demisting backing behind it. Only trouble is that the existing one appears to be glued to the wall somehow as no fixings are visible. Anyone think it may be fixed in a different way as I don't fancy taking half the wall away with...

One of the overflow pipes coming out from my loft has water coming out of it at various times during the day and at varying strengths of flow. Anyone know what could be causing it. I had thought that it would be a faulty ball valve in the tank but if it was, the water would surely come out...

This isn't strictly electrical but it's near enough. I had assumed that a wall box in my kitchen, that had a blanking cover over it, was some kind of electrical supply point. However, on removing the cover the cable appears to be a telephone one. Only thing is, the cable has 8 strands to it...

Just moved house and am currently planning to have a new kitchen fitted. The existing hob is halogen and I want a gas one. I took the plinth off the base units and under the cooker there appears to be a copper pipe sticking up about 100mm from the floor with what looks like a cap on it. If I...

At the moment my thermostat is set so that the central heating is not running. All the radiators in the house are cold, which is what you would expect, with the exception of one, in the bathroom which is red hot. How's that ?????? The boiler is currently heating up a nice hot bath for me. Is...

I am about to have a new kitchen fitted which will include replacing the old tiles. I came onto this forum hoping to find a thread on how to remove wall tiles without completely ruining the wall underneath. However, I note a few posts about tiling over existing tiles which I had never heard of...