Recent content by alj

Hi When using one of the fan settings, the main (lower) oven gets hot but doesn't appear to get right up to the hot temperatures. The fan comes on and the oven heats up. Based on the indicator light, it gets up to 180, but no hotter than that, even if I select say 220. If I use a non-fan...

Cheers for that. Seems pretty simple to sort out so hopefully can get sorted quickly.... sooey you've no idea how close that's been to happening. The guys upstairs are renting, but the landlord is worse than useless at getting things fixed. I've had no end of trouble with his plumbing and...

Hi I live in a flat in a converted house. Im on the first floor and there's a flat below me and one above me. We all share the water supply coming off the mains - a pipe comes up through each of the flats and the supply to the individual flats branch off that. When the upstairs flat flush...

Cheers for that. Obviously, I was purely checking whether it was even worth considering these types of lights or if I had to look for another solution... No suggestion of doing it myself ;-)

Hi I live in a converted victorian house, with 3 flats. There is a communal hallway with three floors and each floor has a light, currently just standard pendants. There are also 3 push switches that turn the lights on for a specific time - one on each of the floors. Each switch will turn on...

Cheers for that. Unfortunately it's all over the walls rather than just sections of it - it looks like it has been put on by dabbing with a sponge

The other room was originally blue with the gold metallic paint effects on top (as said no idea make etc of them). I put on two base coats to cover this - I can't remember exactly what it was, either dulux matt white or dulux once matt white (I think the latter), then two further coats of dulux...

The metallic paint was put on by one of the previous owners, so have no idea what make it is...

Hi Im redecorating my bathroom and the walls have a metallic gold paint effect on them. Is there something I can do to essentially seal this effect in so that it doesn't come through with time (it had also been done in another room and six months after redecorating that, it has come through)...