Recent content by Nickuj84

Hi We are replacing our double under oven which has reached end of life. It's never quite fitted in gap and always stuck out (by about half cm at most). I suggested we get a single under oven and find something to fill gap however wife wants a double under oven again and no gap. I've tried...

my wife has brought a shoe cabinet with only two back legs so has to be attached to wall. The thing is we have a dado rail and it goes above that so won’t be flush. The lazy part of me wants to screw it anyway and think that being a few cm from wall will be ok. The other part things I...

Hi My electrician friend installed oven for me and it is a single feed using a large grey cable (not sure on power but my friend said it was sufficent), in between we have a cooker switch with 13a socket. Currently plugged into the socket is the ignition for gas cooker. my wife wants me to...

oldbluffer - thank you! I didnt think they fixed themselves, he as going to put an external one in and came back and said oh it looks fine now... then said let him know if we need him again and signed off the service. I was sure it was the top radiator taking the place as read online but...

We smelt gas near the fire place, so called the gas board who capped it off using a valve next to the gas fireplace. The wife is saying she wants it working, and no one is prepared to look/fix as guessing they'll need some gas fire place knowledge. Not 100% sure where leak is but assuming its...

Our boiler kept losing pressure, we had someone service it and he said we needed a new expansion vessel, fast forward a few months and it's all fine (and didn't get one as he said fixed itself?!?) I suspect though reason it's fine is air is trapped in top radiator upstairs. My wife wants me to...

Hi Have a gas fire place which had a small leak, it's been capped off but wondering cost to fix? Who do I call? I tried a gas engineer but said he wouldn't touch it as it's inside the fire place most likely. Any ideas or recommendations and average cost?! Essex area Thanks

My wife decided we needed to change tiles, came home and some were removed and we have now seen that the tiles are on older tiles, we decided the older tiles looked had to remove and worried about state of wall behind it. I've tried removing top layer tiles but finding it extremely difficult...