Recent content by Lupa Monkey

Good question. I shall have to investigate further during the next downpour. All I know is, I overheard one of the door fitters complain that it felt like he'd had a bucket of water poured over him :oops:

Hello, Even though we recently had all our guttering fixed, we still have drips coming from the guttering directly above our front door. Poor visitors and delivery people get drenched when it's raining! Our front door goes directly onto the street. Are we allowed to fix a canopy? Edit: Sorry...

Won't that trap the moisture though?

Hi all, I have a strip of masonry sandwiched between the window frame and the window sill in our living room which I want to paint. See pic. Problem being, it keeps getting moldy. I want to paint it with mold resistant paint. My partner cleaned off all the black mold last night and I was going...

Woohoo! I found one. I managed to locate a site where the part was out of stock, from that managed to get the part reference and googled that instead of the Fridge freezer model and found one. Excellent!!!

Thank you for the link @foxhole Not very good reviews though and it looks nothing like my existing seal so I'll give this one a miss.

Thank you. Yeah, I googled some how to videos after posting this. Looks pretty straightforward actually. I think finding the correct size seal is going to be the main challenge :cautious: I'm awaiting a reply from one of the replacement parts sites to see if they can track one down, I had no...

I have just defrosted my Ariston freezer, which I have to do regularly, I'd say every 2 months, although it probably needs doing more often. The seals have seen better days (see pics). In fairness it is 18 years old so it's done me proud. Are these replaceable? I really can't afford to replace...

My Smeg cooker is now 8 years old. It seems to have developed a hole in the base of the oven. I notice there are scrape marks by it and I have absolutely no idea how they got there! My first question is, is it safe to use the pyrolytic cleaning setting, or is it now too dangerous? In fact...

Thank you JBR. I've only just seen your reply. Nice job. We laid the first row yesterday using mix in the tub mortar, and today the second layer using donated postcrete (it was free and beggars can't be choosers!) I actually sat there sieving out all the gravelly bits first! Just need to point...

Can anyone advise on how to lay a double row of hollow blocks to create a raised bed. We have a raised bed at the moment with a cherry tree in it, which we created using sleepers a few years ago. Unfortunately the sleepers haven't really stood the test of time and have been slowly rotting from...

Thanks for the suggestions. Miliput superfine white it is then.

Hello, I know it's not exactly a plumbing question, but I didn't know where else to put my query. please feel free to move it to a more suitable section. See pic attached. Can anyone suggest a product I can use to fill a small chip and a few hairline cracks in my sink please. Many thanks

Thank you for your reply joe. I decided to carry on after reading it. Fingers crossed!

Can anyone advise please. I've had a senior moment. I've just done the equivalent of putting diesel in a petrol car I think! :eek: I've been merrily painting the render on our exterior wall thinking I was using masonry paint when I looked down at the pot and saw that I was using exterior wood...