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lf it does break, will any Screwfix-style isolation valve of the correct size work in there?

Downstairs toilet flush has broken, and looking at the water input pipe, there's this metal connector with the screw on the side. Is that screw the means of shutting off the water? The upstairs toilets have different, plastic shutoff valves. There's nothing else accessible; the rest of the...

The cold taps in our upstairs and downstairs bathrooms have seized up over about 5 years. 5 years ago, they were similarly seized, so we called a plumber and he fixed them in about 10 minutes - I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention, but all he seemed to do was pop the top cap off the tap...

I'm sure that I once read somewhere that dishwashers typically have a small tube round the back (not the big chunky drain tube) that can be blown into manually to clear a pressure differential issue that's causing the appliance to stop and flash an error message during a wash cycle. Is that...

I've just repaired our 8-year-old Bosch washing machine thanks to YouTube videos that happened to cover the same fault on the same machine. But is it really still a waste of time trying to obtain a proper repair manual if you're a DIYer?

The large central burner on our Kenwood oven has ended up with a load of cooking oil in it. We've soaked up most of it, but it could obviously do with a more thorough clean. Can I just remove those three screws and lift it out, or will I be disturbing seals that will need to be replaced with new?

Yeah, I already saw that site. Unfortunately there's no definitive information available about my specific error - depending on which site you look at it could be a mainboard fault or a circulating pump fault or a pressure switch fault. The service manual would be the only way to be sure, but of...

When you start a cycle it will run normally for about 2 minutes, then you'll hear the gurgling noise from the drain (totally normal for when the unit is draining) and immediately the error code indication is displayed. It will then run something (the pump?) for another few minutes and then stop...

I want to use one so I can switch from black exterior cable (where it comes in through a wall), to white for internal use. Ideally I want rear entry for the black cable, side entry for the white one. I can't find anything online that does this, all the junction boxes I've found are side entry...

Luck? In what way? Sorry, don't get the point you're making.

The cable has already emerged. And it's angled down, not up. As seen in the photo. There's a drip loop at the bottom where it enters the living room just above skirting-board level. If there had been a hidden route, I would have taken it. If you're looking at the front of the house, the cable...

So how would a professional access that area, out of interest? Use a ladder, but with a proper fixing at the base to ensure it wouldn't slide?

I've run a network cable from the living room to an upstairs bedroom up the front wall of the house. When I drilled the upstairs hole, I discovered that it came out in the strip of serrated soft black material (sorry, don't know what it's properly called) that covers the join between the porch...

That's extremely condescending, as I'm sure you're aware. I'm completely serious. I want to extend the downstairs wired network upstairs, and there are no existing conduits I could run cable through. Cables along exterior walls are a completely normal and accepted part of the urban landscape -...

I want to put Ethernet sockets in my living room and in the bedroom directly above, connected by a cable that will run up the front exterior wall of the house. See the photo below (not my house) for how I'd like the cable to be positioned relative to the windows. I want both sockets to sit just...