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If you are trying to perform a repair to an ash plaster wall, without stripping the whjole thing back to the brick, then tease out all the loose plaster and before you try to fill it, spray the remaining surface of the exposed plaster with hairspray, it binds it all together and gives a much...

Hoping someone out there can help. Our cooker stopped working (as a fan oven) the other day, the light comes on, the fan runs and the conventional oven and grill stilll work. The problem is with the fan oven setting, I've replaced the element (sadly only checked the old one wasn't broken...

Can anyone help. My door handle has started to come way from the door. There doesn't appear to be a grub screw holding it to the shaft so I am wondering how it will come off. Any ideas?

I have a hot water cylinder which is heated by te gas boiler (not a combi) and yesterday the overflow started running although only slowly. It has run overnight despite the heating being off. I'm sure its the hot water expansion not the header tank for the rads. I've been into the loft...

I have always found this forum very helpful, so thanks to those responded over the years. I now seem to have another problem with my boiler in that it seems to literally boil the water creating the sound of one of the camping kettles, then it shuts off and starts up again. We do get hot...

Always found this site really useful and appreciate the help that has been offered in the past. I'd like to ask a question which I can't find an answer too. My rads are only warming up when the hot water is on or when I manually push the lever into the on position on the diverter valve...

Hoping someone can offer some advice. I have a leaking isolating valve on the 'in' side of the pump in my heating system. The joint between the valve and the pump is OK as is the valve to the pipe so its the cover for the actual tap that is dripping. Despite a couple of small tightening...

I really want to keep these two separate but it may be linked. 1. For some time now I have had to bleed one of my radiators weekly, its the furthest away from the boiler, also there appears to be a lot of air in the pipes bubbling around when the heating is on! 2. Having read the posts...

Having read the details from a previous post going back to 2005 I thought I ought to finally do something about the above issue. My family and I have lived with this problem for over a year! (I know, I know.....) We've all got used to the sound and sleep through it but we've just got a dog he...