Recent content by newbuyer17

Thanks all. All interesting ideas, but unless anyone knows for sure and it's an easy job I think I'd better leave well alone. I'm actually selling the property, door is working, just a bit annoying when it catches. If it was an easy fix I'd have done it, but don't want to risk completely...

Sorry for the confusion. The screws were left in and I tried adjusting the Allen bolt. The door does move. In fact I did this with the cover on. However, it's doesn't go far enough and looks to be at the end of its travel. Hence removing the cover, and messing with the other screws to see if it...

Hi. Yes, it certainly does. However it's at the limit of where it will move inward. The metal plate pushes up against the hinge as it is now, and won't go any further. Is there anything else I can do to move the door nearer the hinge, or is it at its limit? Thanks

Thanks everyone. Cover is off. Bonus question:-) The door is catching on the outside of the frame away from the hinge, so needs pulling on at the top on the hinge side. However, it looks like I've already hit the max travel. The metal plate nearest the wall hits the hinge and it won't go any...

Any idea how to remove this hinge cover so I can adjust? It feels like it wants to slide up/down, but isn't actually budging. Equally it looks like it can be levered off, but doesn't seem to have enough flex. Thanks

I'd like to run some pipework from my garage to an outside tap at the other side of some double doors. Without going into further details, the only route I have is through that wall half a brick to the right of where the power cable goes through, then up to the ceiling and across. I can't go...

I want to permanently remove a radiator in an upstairs bedroom. I'll drain the system from downstairs and am ok with draining and removing rad. It's plastic microbore under the floor connecting to 15mm copper into the rad. Just wondering what the best way to cap it off is though? The video...

Further info. I've had it apart. I found the thermostat in the top of the freezer. I tried warming this with a lighter to see if I could make it change temperature, and it didn't want to. Still reading -25 degrees C. It was warming up slightly, but then I had the door open. So perhaps it was...

We have a Samsung RSG5UCRS american style fridge freezer. We had a power cut earlier in the week, and since then food isn't freezing. I can hear the fan working. The setting for the freezer is showing -25 degrees which is the temperature you want it to be, and when I open the door it stays on...

Bit of a vague question I realise, but not easy to explain. Got an electrolux electric oven (EOU6330X) , probably 13 years old. It all works. Heats up to temperature. I can see the fan at the back is running. But its just not cooking stuff evenly. Stuff needs longer than the instructions say...

OK, thats what I thought. Yes, you may be right, but worth a go as the ballasts are hard to come by apparantly. Thanks

I've got a bathroom mirror with a T9 round tube. Tube went a while ago, and just got a replacement, and it still doesn't work. Sounds like it is very likely that the landlite EB-56 ballast has gone. These aren't made any more, and 40w seems overkill in this day and age anyway. So I'm looking...

Thanks. Yesterday I had set the heating to frost protection. So when I got in I cranked up downstairs only (they are on separate thermostats) with the other radiators closed. That did get some heat through the rad, and the lockshield was also hot. So does that sound more like a balance...

Its definitely unscrewed open. Obviously I cant tell if it is actually open without getting the radiator off, but I assume it must be. Nope - I have turned off all other radiators that I can at the TRV (some of the TRVs are broken) (The TRVs need replacing, but I intend to replace with smart...

One of our downstairs radiators is struggling to get hot. At first I thought it was a balance issue, but I've opened the tap fully, and removed and freed the TRV pin. On closer inspection the right hand TRV is getting really hot, but the left side valve remains cold. The top of the rad is...