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Hi there, just had a garden room built and they reinforced a section for me with osb pattress to wall Mount a 43 inch tv. Just on a flat mount, two feet wide, no extending arms or whatever. Probably about 15mm thick osb, directly behind plasterboard. Gap behind it to insulation. Will about 8...

Hi, in the absence of pics I hope words will do :D I am trying to replace my side fill cistern float valve. I've bought the new float valve, but as ever in my house, nothing is straightforward. The water pipe runs along the wall about 150mm lower than the valves inlet, and is joined by flexi...

I treated myself to some Dulux trade diamond eggshell for my hall and stairs woodwork. From the local dulux decorators centre. Unfortunately I've bought 2.5 litres of timeless and it is white. Indistinguishable from the white undercoat when I tried it. I wanted a cream which is what the...

Hi all, the main oven on our creda freestanding double electric oven keeps heating, and heating and heating! So I'm Pretty sure it's the thermostat that's gone. However, after plenty of youtubing, I can't see where the temperature probe is on the main fan oven. I can see it in the middle oven...

Do I access the cistern here? The two studs you can see on top are screws but they cover two tiles and the whole lot is sealed / grouted / mastic'ed together The reason being the loo is constantly allowing water to trickle through No sign of easy access anywhere Any ideas that save me...

Hi all, quick question if you don't mind. My shower is leaking from the controls / catridge presumed knackered. I'm looking at replacements and one says 5 ltr/sec at 0.1 bar, the other 5 ltr/sec at 0.3 bar We have poor water pressure at times, so which would be best? Thanks in advance

Hi all, I had a new boiler installed on Thursday, a Worcester Bosch / Greenstar 30i compact All works well, heating is great... except our shower (which sits above the bath), which is sometimes OK (never really hot), sometimes hot/cold intermittently, and sometimes cold. On the front panel...

Morning My 'storm porch' i.e. the small pitched roof that covers the front door and adjacent living room window, is tired underneath. Paint is starting to flake. My question is... how far should I go back with the sanding? Take it all off back to the wood - or just remove all loose stuff...

My bathroom mixer tap decided today that it would not turn off and instead ran constant hot water I've blanked off the pipes and taken the tap off, hoping I would find a washer that had gone that could be easily replaced Instead I found this - doesn't seem to be room to fit a tool in to...

Been in my property for 8 months and flexible tap tail in bathroom has been dripping, fixed by tightening a little, but the tap tail connector is now kaput. Threaded end has just come off tail. Took it to plumbers merchant but it's smaller than the standard m10. Though the thread looks a tad...

Just bought a house and was looking forward to setting my temperature via the stat (didn't have one previously) at a nice sensible heat. However I'm finding the heating is either 'off' or 'too hot'. The Honeywell T40 dial room stat, if I try to set it below 20, clicks ... and the heating...

I have an Ideal mini combi boiler, having not used the heating all summer, when I switched it on the other day I noticed the pressure was going way too high Usually it's at just over one when cold, adds about half a bar when heating /hot water is on It is now just climbing until over 3...

My kitchen was painted by the previous occupants, on closer inspection they appear to have plastered themselves (poor job) and then fired on kitchen paint with no mist coat This is now lifting off in places and chunks can be taken off back to the bare plaster quite easily However I'm not...

I've used plaster cornice so far in my house, and I've used a primer/undercoat first then satinwood on top, for a nice semi-gloss type of finish However I'm using paper covered plaster coving in my kitchen I want to paint it with Satinwood again, but what base coat would I use?

Hi all We purchased a conservatory via Homebase a while ago, when we came to assemble it they had supplied some incorrect parts. The third party supplier we apparently bought from (we didn't know there was a third party) were Best Value Conservatories and after not remedying the probem...

My front garden is missing a gate !!! Moved in a few months ago and want to replace it. It has the gate opening obviously, and it has footings for posts either side, the opening is 3 feet. However I'm struggling to find the posts that would slot in the footings. They are like metpost...

I'm sure a few people have worked out this formula before: Five foot lapboard wooden fence + busybody neighbour = no privacy She's harmless but god damn, she won't let us go in the garden without coming out of her house looking over, trying to get our attention. Lonely I guess, bless her...

I am looking into buying some new cast iron rads... I have found a supplier that is reasonable in price, the rad sections are imported from China and assembled here. Anybody have experience of cast iron rads imported from China? Any advice?

My kitchen tap flows too fast, where the water just gushes out and bubbles up. The tap can be slowed but it is hard to find a balance between gushing and dribbling...I think the maximum flow rate needs reducing. Thing is I haven't a clue how to do it. This problem occurs for both hot...

Me again :roll: I have an ideal mini combi boiler. It seemingly won't ignite, my girlfriend says it happened this morning when she was washing her hair - it ran cold. No HW, no CH. I have reset the boiler and the light flashes every second - normal operation. When the CH or HW are...