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I am trying to make an emergency trailer cover out some DPM I have lying around. I just need to fold the corners in and adhere the DPM back onto itself and the job is done but I cannot find anything that will stick the plastic together. Tried superglue, UHU all purpose stuff even No More...

Just taken delivery of what I must admit is a fairly cheap ‘walnut’ kitchen worktop. Seemed worth a punt and generally looks okay. What I have noticed is something that looks like a single woodworm hole into one end of the worktop. Actually this end piece can be cut away when fitted but...

The wall I share with my neighbour in my kitchen is hollow and currently all the electrics are surface mounted. I am about to fit a new kitchen and would like to sink the boxes into the wall. I also need to put some timber supports in to hold the new wall cabinets so need to cut a section of...

I have an old mains stop tap fed from a very short length of plastic pipe coming out of the ground. The tap leaks around the spindle when open, but is no longer needed as it will be inaccessible in the new kitchen I am about to fit. I have already installed a new stop tap in a more accessible...

I am about to order a new kitchen and before getting Mr Spark in I want to do some preparation. Currently all the kitchen electrics are surface mounted. As the appliances are moving slightly I want to start chiselling some holes for new flush mount boxes. I know exactly where the appliances...

Hoping someone can give me some troubleshooting pointers as the main oven in my Cannon cooking has stopped heating this evening, everything else works. The oven light comes on and it makes a fan sound but the fan at the rear of the oven does not spin. The element doesn't heat up, I've taken...

Is there such a thing as a timer socket which switches off after a period of time? I have converted my garage into a room and have a little electric heater. The problem is it is very easy to forget it is on and sometimes I don’t go into the room for several days at a time. At best I could end...

I've plaster boarded my garage conversion with TE board and bought self adhesive jointing tape and compound. After reading some guides I understand how to tape and fill the joints but I am not sure how to do the corners properly. Firstly there is a gap in one internal corner where the width...

I have been quoted a days labour for the above job. There is nothing complicated involved other than change over the existing 25 year old Wylex unit for something with an RCD. Does this sound right including testing an notification?

Ready to embark on my garage conversion this weekend I have just bought a load of Kingspan boards. I am planning to put the boards against the wall behind timber studs then put 12.5mm plasterboard over the top. However everything I read seems to have a different approach to this so I have a few...

My house is on the market but I don’t see it selling any time soon. As I need some more space I am contemplating converting my detached garage to an office at minimal cost and as temporary as possible in case a buyer wants to convert it back. I also want to partition off the rear of the garage...

Hi all My external BT wiring is a bit old and tatty, many of the clips holding it to the wall have broken and I just don't trust it isn't causing problems with my ADSL so I'd like to change it. I also had an external door changed last year and the fitters left a length of the phone cable...

I need a socket next to my consumer unit for a low power security camera. My house ring main goes into an RCD in the consumer unit, so the live and neutral from the ring both go into the RCD. Can I just add a the live and neutral from a spur straight into the RCD? Circuit wise I can't think...

My hot water ran cold yesterday so I had a look at my 4 year old Worcester combi boiler which appeared to be dead with an electrical burning smell. After checking the fuse etc I took the front off and found this: http://www.syzygys.f2s.com/boiler/ Basically a pipe had melted through the...

My Hoover Nextra wouldn't drain so I tried undoing the filter at the front on the bottom to see if I could let some water out but it only dribbled slowly. Is this normal or should a full machine pour water out when I undo this? I’ve checked the drain hose for blockages and it all seems ok. I...

I just discovered rain water running through a bathroom light fitting from what appears to be a leak around the soil pipe vent going through the roof above :( Its probably been leaking a while but I only recently put the light in so this is the first time the water has been able to come through...

I’ve just fitted a new bathroom suite with a shower and need some kind of extraction to clear the steam. I was going to buy a shower halogen light/fan but the guy I was buying the other bathroom lights from told me that in his opinion they don’t really work. What would people recommend as a...