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The whole section is not on view anyway so appearances not too important :D I'm not sure I've understood what was suggested correctly as I don't see how that will fix things. The pan connector seals to the lead insert with no issues, what is happening is the lead insert terminates inside...

Source of the leak has been traced, the soil pipe is lined with lead for approx. 2 inches and water appears to be leaking back between the lead lining and the soil pipe. Bearing this in mind, are there any better options for repair other than the denso tape option? Without the lead lining the...

I don't suppose this is something that's likely to be available in a store with Sunday opening hours?

In the process of replacing a toilet. Horizontal connection to cast iron soil pipe plus collar. The original pan connector has had to be replaced and was wrapped to the cast iron with some sort of waxed fabric stuff. It seems that the reason it was wrapped is the soil pipe itself, rather than...

Connecting the wires gets the boiler to fire up, so just a dead receiver it seems. I've joined the two wires with a switch plate for the time being so we've can switch on and off until we get a replacement. Thanks

We have a Honeywell wireless thermostat controlling a combi boiler where the wireless receiver (BDR91) has stopped working - no led lights display at all and of course no heating coming on (hot water works fine) Is there any way to test that it is just the wireless receiver that is the problem?

Yes, span is only 2.1m ish.

We're just in the process of ripping out our bathroom and starting from scratch. Currently there is vinyl on top of ply on top of the original floorboards. The ply will be coming up so that we can access the plumbing to reroute some of it. We then need to make a decision about whether...

What are the best fixings for attaching a kitchen base cabinet to a plasterboard wall? Base cabinets so wall fixing is just to secure rather than hold any weight. It will be fixed to cabinets either side which are fixed to brickwork. Is it even worth fixing to the plasterboard? Cheers

The manufacturer says "The appliance is type "Y". This means that the input supply cable cannot be changed by the user. Only the brand's service technicians are qualified to replace this cable." Forgot to mention the important bit, it's a gas hob. It was going to be plugged into a...

Two rooms knocked through to one to create new kitchen and new circuits installed. Connection point for both electric oven and gas hob located in kitchen cupboard adjacent to oven. We've just about reached the installation stage and now find that the hob is supplied with a v. short length of...

Is that always true? We had a power failure a couple of weeks ago and they were wandering between ours and the neighbour's garden with cable detecting gear. I now know that our electricity supply travels under two neighbours gardens before exiting on a road round the corner.

Elsewhere we've gone for the bonding and fill up the gap route but this one is sloping into the room quite a lot (the others were just a bit wavy) and I'm not sure we'd be able to fix it level without sorting out the surface a bit first.

A wooden windowsill is going on top so doesn't need to be super smooth, just level

We've removed a tiled windowsill and the surface left behind is rather uneven. What's the best thing to use to level it out?