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Hi. I have just purchased (online) a ‘Crosswater side lever mono kitchen mixer tap’. when fitted, it leaked slowly from where the side lever attaches to the spindle of the ceramic cartridge. After getting nowhere fast with the supplier I purchased a replacement cartridge. I had tried fiddling...

Hi All. I have an integral garage with the light switch situated in the kitchen. The light is very often inadvertently left on, but because there is a door between the kitchen and the garage it can go unnoticed for days. I thought it would be simple matter of changing the existing single pole...

I am trying to paint our newly hung 'Luxury Textured Paintable Vinyl' wallpaper with Dulux 'natural hints' Matt emulsion inJasmine White. The paper itself has a very fine embossed pattern, and having given it the first coat with the above watered down emulsion, and a second coat of non...

Hi. hope someone can help because every morning when I fire up my laptop I have to wait about 30 minutes before I can use it with any sort of speed. When I look in 'running tasks' within system information, I see this....c:\windows\pvhealth\helpctr\binaries\helpsvc.exe Whilst this is running...

I have recently had replacement sealed units fitted to the front of our house. The old ones had blown, and had terrible condensation inside the units. Within a week or two of the new ones being installed I awoke one morning and couldn’t see out of any of them! They were all heavily condensated...

Hi......I am about to take up some loose ceramic floor tiles in a property that I rent out. The previous owner laid floor tiles onto chipboard flooring in the kitchen and five or six of them have become loose and 'rock' slightly, cracking the grout (and one or two of the tiles). I have bought...

I've just realised that I might have posted this in the wrong section (I put it in 'Appliances')............... I have searched the DIYNot site and cannot find that my question has been raised before, so....................am I allowed to install an electric cooker myself? I am not a...

I have searched the DIYNot site and cannot find that my question has been raised before, so....................am I allowed to install an electric cooker myself? I am not a qualified electrician. There is an electric cooker point that used to supply the old cooker, and there is also a...

Hi All - I've looked to see if my question has been raised before and I can't see it, so............I have taken up some vinyl floor tiles from the bathroom. I had to use the heat gun to soften them up or they would just crack and come up in tiny pieces. Question is - any ideas on how to...

We need to decide if we are going to burn off all the old paint on the skirting boards in our house (standard, boring type) or my wife thinks that she has seen some laminated type skirting that will never need painting again!!! We don't want plastic type skirting, but has anyone heard of, or...

Hi All. I’ve searched the forum to see if the question I am about to ask has been raised before by anyone else. I find that it has, but it didn’t get any replies!! I’m not sure if that’s because it’s such a dumb question, but here goes……… I am renovating a bathroom, and having removed old...

We have just bought a buy to let house which obviously needs some work doing on it. One of the problems to be solved is that in the kitchen, someone has accidentally drilled into the mains cable buried in the wall, coming down from the first floor. This cable supplies a three pin socket on the...

We have just a bought a house which we are getting ready for renting out. There is currently a Baxi wall mounted boiler in the kitchen which we would like to get rid of and put a combi boiler in the existing airing cupboard upstairs. In the airing cupboard there is a stainless steel flue from...

I've just bought a Sony 'Handycam' camcorder, which has its own hard drive together with the ability to run a memory stick. When I was advised by 'the shop' to buy the memory stick it also had an adaptor to allow insertion into a laptop for downloading movies. The problem is the adaptor...

I bought a new Cannon dual fule cooker a few weeks ago - electric double oven and four gas rings on the top. Great cooker, except that the front left gas ring keeps going out when set on a low flame. It makes a sort of 'popping' sound and then goes out. No problem when it's on a high flame...

I want to tile the floor of a bathroom. The floor is chipboard, with very slightly raised joints where water has swollen the joint edges. I do not want to lay thick plywood onto the boards (because of problems with levels) but would like to put down 6mm ply. Two questions please....... 1)...

I'm about to tile our bathroom - not large, about 3m x 2m. My wife has decided that she wants the tiles to be laid diagonally!! Are there any tips on how to accurately measure the 'edge' triangular tiles that will need to be cut? I've checked the main forum and can't see that this subject...

I will soon be fitting a new acrylic bath. My sister recently had a similar bath fitted by a plumber, and he used expanding foam beneath the bath to add extra support. He built a 'frame' beneath the bath and then 'filled it' with expanding foam. The bath certainly seems to be far more solid...

I am about to renew the kitchen, which involves blocking up doorways and opening up new ones, and so the present power sockets will all need to be moved. I am having a built under single electric oven (which comes with fitted plug), and a gas hob above, with mains ignition. I am also fitting...

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy melamine sheeting, which can be cut and glued onto timber? Can you buy different colours?? I've searched everywhere but without any luck. Thanks.