Recent content by gravesend46

We have three of them but they've never so much as got near a pigeon! :ROFLMAO:

My neighbour has a pine tree that overhangs our garden. Aside from the constant pine-needle drop which fills two or three wheelie bins a year, which I can live with as all I need to do is rake it up every so often, we have pigeons roosting in the higher branches and most of the winter they just...

Yep, it is a room that does generate a lot of condensation even with window open and ceiling extractor (which probably needs a good clean/replacement tbh). The stains kinda disappeared overnight and returned again once the shower was on this morning. Thinking if I give it another coat, a longer...

I repainted my bathroom walls and left 24 hours with no baths/showers to dry. I'm guessing that wasn't long enough as once wife and daughter got straight back in there, the result was huge streaking patterns as below. I used two coats of Dulux Bathroom paint. The other wall had three coats and...

Thanks! I think the button is OK as it illuminates as does the shower half of the button (which switches on and off no problem) and appears to actually be trying to start the flow. I bought it four years ago, I'm not sure if the guarantee is 5 years but Mira is the next port of call!

Using a Mira Mode bath filler and shower – shower works fine but in the last two days the bath won't fill (it operates via a dual button controller). A trickle of water comes out of the bath filler – I've taken the panel off and removed the attached pipe to the filler but still only get a...

I want to install a fold-down table in my garden cabin (built using 44mm width timbers) weight 8kg (specifically this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tables/dining-tables/norbo-wall-mounted-drop-leaf-table-birch-art-80091713/ ). I'm guessing it will be too heavy to simply use screws into...

I've already paid £96 diagnosis - my primary query was the boiler is now working, do I proceed to get it fixed anyway on the basis that it's been kaputt (no radiator or water heating) all week up to now (for a higher price than a Worcester fixed price as I knew nothing about that unfortunately)...

I've had a week without any heating or hot water after problems with a 15-year-old Worcester 28CDi combi boiler. The symptoms (from Googling them) all seemed to point to a malfunctioning diverter valve (no hot water or heating, but pilot light was firing and calling for heat briefly) and the...

I bought a tin of this in a white tint on advice from a retailer: http://www.restexpress.co.uk/acatalog/Fiddes_Hard_Wax_Oil.html The tint is so light on untreated timber that you can barely see it and I wanted a slightly translucent white finish along the lines of this...

I have just had a garden log cabin installed. Have treated the exterior with a Sadolin Supadec opaque paint which has gone on just fine. Now my wife wants the inside wood to be white - it's currently bare. Would a water-based primer/undercoat and similar top coat be OK for this sort of wood...

Thanks stillp, I've got the side panels off but can't get at the pump yet. The heat exchanger looks fine. I have found the belt has torn in half though. Now forgive my ignorance, but would this cause the symptoms above? Is a simple belt replacement all I need, or could something else still be...

Hi folks, have got a problem on a Zanussi TCE 7124 W. Wife been telling me our dryer was on the blink so I've cleaned all the filters today. They're all fine. Hot air is definitely being generated, but the clothes don't seem to be drying and there's no water being transferred to the water...

No, not protected at the CU (see here: http://i.imgur.com/PoYqdNF.jpg ). Load-wise, just typical office equipment - two printers, maximum four laptops, a couple of screens. Probably maximum three double sockets, security light and one or two fluorescent lighting tubes. My main reason...

Sorry, my terminology is probably all over the place (as you can tell, I wouldn't be carrying out this work myself, I have a competent friend who is an electrical engineer who would be doing this, I am just trying to establish what I need to do before getting him round). The cable comes from...