You’ve taken down an old pendant light and found three cables dangling from the ceiling rose, each with its own brown, blue, and green-and-yellow wire. It looks like a mess. You were expecting two wires, maybe three at a push, and now there are nine conductors staring back at you. One of the blue wires […]
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A homeowner with a push-button Ideal Standard toilet noticed that after a routine flush, water kept running steadily into the bowl. It wasn’t a full-flow gush – more a constant trickle, loud enough to hear from outside the bathroom. The toilet had worked fine for years with no issues, and this started out of nowhere.
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A homeowner with a ceiling-mounted bathroom extractor fan – wired to come on with the shower pull cord – found that the vent was letting freezing cold air pour into the bathroom around the clock. Looking up into the fan from inside, she could see flexible ducting running through the loft to an external wall
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A homeowner looking to buy a detached house – only eight years old – spotted vertical cracks on the external brickwork near a corner. The south-facing wall had two cracks, each around three feet long, one low down and another about four feet up. The east-facing wall had a crack near the same corner and
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The problem The leak is with my four year old centre pivot roof window which is only leaking in very windy rain conditions. The water appears internally (at the bottom) left hand side. When I inspected the internal frame further I could find no signs of water anywhere else except for the same area where
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A homeowner has a rendered extension that has been repainted last year. A stabilizer/sealer coat has been applied over the previous masonry paint, and the finish has subsequently bubbled, flaked, and lost its adhesion. They have tried using sandpaper, scrapers, and a general-purpose paint stripper with very little success; they would like a quicker means
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