Recent content by Quid_Nunc

Thank you, Terryplumb. I bought 32mm and 40mm blocking off plugs (cheap enough, and not sure of the size). Have unscrewed the ring, but cannot pull the rest out. Seems to be some part of a plastic bag has been used to make the connection extra tight. Alas it is too much for my 60-year-old...

Hello, From time to time some water appears to come out from an overflow pipe just above where the water enters the u-bend trap under the kitchen sink. This property has been recently acquired and is awaiting renovation. We think that the people who lived there before had a washing machine to...

Thank you, RandomGrinch. I tried trying to turn the knob with needle-nosed pliers (and a rag to protect the plastic) clockwise and counter-clockwise, but no luck. Before I read your edited reply, I did try a few ideas to trick it into thinking that the brewing unit was properly in place...

I bought a new Bosch VeroCafe TES50129RW coffee machine on eBay a year ago, but it had been purchased retail some years before that, so it was out of warranty. After cleaning and replacing the brewing unit, I must have somehow failed to return it to its correct configuration (or indeed to any...

Problem now solved. I bought a pack of m3.5 x 50mm screws from a local independent shop for 1.99. Threaded one into each of the loose lugs (they can be seen broken off at the base of the back box), held in place behind the two side tabs by a finger. Then kept that in place with a big wodge of...

Left one storage heater on overnight. No heat overnight or the next day. The last (red) digit on the meter did move by 2, but that could have been accounted by boiling a kettle at 4am to fill a hot water bottle. Any more thoughts?

Found out from the meter that the Economy 7 period was 1-8am. At 7am, switched on two storage heaters. Both have red light indicators in the switches that came on. Set both at about the mid-point for input and output. No heat ever came out. And the "low" reading on the meter remains the same...

Thank you winston1! Will go and check at midnight.

Recently taken back an ex-rental property which has two Hager consumer units. The second one is just for the storage heaters. It has a red main switch on the right, and six black switches on the left. I have no experience with storage heaters, but as far as I can figure out none of the...

Thank you all for your great replies. Plenty of ideas there. As Adam_151 rightly states, as it is a bodge anyway, I will start with the "old matchsticks in the hole trick". Can't believe I didn't think of that - my favourite DIY bodge back in my long ago student days. Whoever buys this...

Sorry, had to do the post on the computer and add the files from the phone, as the computer is playing up and won't recognize the phone!

Light switch is very flaky, and keeps coming away from the kitchen wall. Not good if you're about to try and sell a property. The 1-gang 35mm deep steel back box has its lugs broken off. Can't see how I could replace it as the gap in the tiles is too small. The left hand screw has a 40mm...

31mm long, 13mm across, 6mm tall/deep. The hole in the middle has a screw hole, but the thread is stripped. I have tried B&Q and ToolStation, but cannot find a new part, even as part of some larger set. Any ideas?

Hinge failed last week - door now hanging off bottom hinge). New kitchen being installed next year, so for now we need a stop-gap solution. The door itself (melamine-faced MDF) is 490mm wide and 550mm tall (533mm without the trim), so seemingly not a standard size that can be easily replaced...