Recent content by Aziz1

I have a 4 year old Beko american style fridge: GNEV221/GNEV221 In the fridge side, it feels cold at the bottom, but is only about 18 degrees at the top. In the freezer side, recently it's started making ice at the top, but then sometimes the ice melts/is half melted, although food generally...

Thanks both, I'll give spring clamps a try..

I want to build a quick rough and ready canopy frame for a wooden sleigh bed without damaging the bed itself by screwing or gluing anything to it. Since I can't use cable ties or anything to tie the vertical pieces of the canopy frame to the bed (since there are no 'bed posts' I was thinking to...

No hot water cylinder, all mains fed. Sounds like a heat exchanger problem after all... thanks both.

Hi, I bought a house about a year ago, and today was the first time I turned the central heating on. The central heating works fine. I also replaced the old radiator in the upstairs bedroom with a new one at the same time, I THINK I got the return and flow the right way. Anyway, I am...

Hi, just looking for some advice as have just started out :) The walls in the bedroom are painted very badly (in my opinion), see picture; slightly textured and not smooth. I would like the final result to be a smooth finish using matt or semi-satin emulsion. Also, I had a plasterer in...

Hi All, I'm renovating a room in my house. It had a picture rail, which I removed. But now I find the bottom section of the wall is out of alignment with the top by a few mm. I've had a plasterer come in for a quote, and he tells me in order to do a perfect job, he's going to have to apply...

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Perhaps instead of giving this high and mighty attitude, you might try to understand that not all of us professionals who've had formal training or on the job experience, that some of us are DIYers who are starting out and might ask (what seems to you to be) stupid questions. Rather than giving...

Thanks gasservice1985. I'm just starting out in DIY so I researched into it, and found that without a drain cock the easiest way to drain the water initially is to get a self cutting tap. Now that I've at least got SOME way to drain the system I can put in a radiator valve with a drain valve and...

No, not concrete. Whats that got to do with this?

I wasn't trying to buy ****e, but this is only one of 2 designs I could find online.