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I brought a draper tap reseating tool Toolstation (Draper) for £10 and some of the thread inside was removed and with a light looks better, but cold tap still dripping. Any ideas (after a new cartridge and reseating tool)

Hi all, I changed my kitchen cold water tap cartridge about 2 years ago, after 2 years started dripping a week ago, rather than clean in vinegar etc, I decided to buy a new replacement for £15. After arriving and installing, the cold water drips continue every 5-10 seconds from the sprout. I...

Thanks, I give that a try, I guess this was the reason my Dyer was getting extremely hot after 15 minutes? and switching off, usually needing to reset one of my fuse baord consumer switches from off to on. I guess the trip is a Beko safety mechanism. Haven't had a problem with this dryer for...

Hi all, My Beko Dryer Condenser seems to be over heating and switching off. I removed the back panel (Beko) and tested the thermostat with my Multimeter (see photos attached). With my multimeter at the lowest resistance mode. There was a reading with the black cable/black right side but no...

That worked, needed a bit of hard pulling the next day, but worked! Thanks, new cartridge replaced, drip gone and working...........

Hi all! see attached photos I'm trying to replace a cold water CDA Kitchen tap cartridge, if you see the attached photos I have taken out the end cap and the screw. After I try to pull the tap cover horizontally, it will not move in any tap position! There is no grub screw on the tap...

Hi, I have a 100 year old stained window from Mock Tudor period, probably the 1st ones, it's a leaded window stained and only a few remain in tact in my area. I have removed the window to refurbish. Anyone know how to clean the lead and the old stained glass?

Thanks Ken, I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens to my putty over the next 2 weeks. Window is in the garage away from birds! I have boarded up window gap with plywood.

Hi, I've applied Linseed putty around my old house original stained glass timber window after a refurb you could say! The window has black lead on the glass which I'm going to paint but I'm confused when I can paint the putty around the glazing. I brought NoNonse Putty from Screwfix, it's a...

Hi all, I've sanded and removed almost all the old paint from my stairwell, but there are just some small spots I can't remove as too deep in the wood and hard to get areas where a sander is not possible and heat gun or liquid stripper just doesn't remove them. I want to stain the stairs and...

I removed all the nails I put in very gently and brought some Reisser screws from Toolstation, this worked wonders, after drilling in the gaps are closed even more, some are flush now. Thanks!:) There is a bad creak on 1 step and underneath I can see a Riser wedge missing looks like 170mm, so...

I managed to reduce gaps of last few steps via underneath the stairs down to about 2-3mm with a few nails into riser/tread.

I've started downstairs today, 2 steps and it's the bottom 2 steps where the biggest gaps are, see attached 2 photos. Not finished sanding yet TBH looking at the grain and knots with condition of the timber wood, I want a dark as colour as possible as a lighter or medium colour will not like...

Hi all! I have ripped up carpet and some very old carpet grippers on my stairs, previous owners have just laid new carpet down over the years, I found carpet grippers from 1962 made in England! Using a orbital sander and mouse sander I started sanding the staircase as in photo attached...

doh! just had a look and instructions say that, yes that must be it...rushing at the end of the day...will revert tomorrow morning, many thanks.