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Hello The shower in my rental house is fed from the hot water tank. There is a shower pump/booster in the airing cupboard. The tenant said the pump is extremely loud when the shower is being used. There is also black dusty residue coming out from it. He thinks internal parts are wearing...

Hi There is a door in my kitchen leading to an integral garage. One side of the frame has just become loose. When I open the door, both the architrave and the door lining at the hinge (upper right hand corner of the frame in the photo) are moving away from the wall. What is the best way to fix...

Hi There is a door in my kitchen leading to an integral garage. One side of the frame has just become loose. When I open the door, the frame (upper right hand corner of the frame in the photo) pulls from the wall. What is the best way to fix it? What kind of tradesman do I need? door...

A few months ago I had a timber tudor board in the front of my house replaced. It is the horizonal one in the photo. I just found that there is a small vertical crack on the board (red circled). It is a small one (nearly hairline), but I wonder whether it would get worse with time. Thanks for...

Unfortunately I have found there is still a small leak at the compression joint just below the isolation valve of the hot pipe. It is wet when I touch it. I checked that the other parts of the pipe is dry, so it is definitely not condensation. However, I left a bowl beneath it overnight and...

Thanks Johnny2007! Indeed when he was replacing the tap he had to close and open the isolating valve a couple of times, and eventually it leaked:)

Hi I had a dripping kitchen tap replaced by a Dyno engineer yesterday. During the process the hot water pipe was leaking and he fixed it. Now I have found the hot water pipe (right one in the photo, it is under the sink) is a bit wobbly, in the vertical direction. When I touch it, I can feel the...

Hi all, I removed the knob, but couldn't remove the cartridge. I intended to take the cartridge to Screwfix to find the same one. It's a hexagon nut that got stuck. I used a standard adjustable wrench, and it simply slipped (off with some metal granules from the nut) and the nut won't turn at...

thanks for your replies. Is the screw behind the black thing on the knob? So shall I use a screw driver to pry the black thing out to see the screw?

Hi My kitchen tap is dripping, but I don't know how to take it off to change the washer. A photo is attached. Any advice much appreciated.

thank you for all your replies. I don't know what artex is, so looked it up on google. To my surprise, I found that old artex may contain asbestos. My house was built around 1997/98, hopefully it is "modern" enough and would not be a problem? thanks.

Hello I have found a patch of my upstairs bathroom ceiling has peeled off. I checked the loft and there is no visible sign of water entry (no water marks on the loft floor or insulation material). Also, I suppose if the paint peeling were due to rain water from the above, there would be...

By the way, although it looks like a wet patch, it feels dry when I touch it.

There was a damp patch next to my neighbour's water meter box for quite some time and eventually they reported to the water company. Last week engineers came and repaired the leak (I can see they dug up around his meter box etc.). Following that, I have found 2 damp patches on the pavement...

And my soffit is show in the photo. The vent is not circular, but a long, rectangular shape. thanks

Thanks for your reply. Where is this soffit vent located? I couldn't see anything like that around my roof. Is it visible from outside? Do you mean the big vent thing on the ridge (top of the roof)? Attached is a photo of my house. Or could it be from somewhere else and the wind or bird...

Hi I happened to see a white object on my roof (the white wheel-like thing in the photo) and I wonder what it is. Could be something falling off from the roof vent or just random stuff brought here by the birds? Thanks for any tips.

@woody, just saw your reply to the other post on cracks. Shall I use polyfilla for my cracks as well? thanks.

My bathtub drain gets blocked very easily. I guess it's mainly due to hair and sludge cos my daughter uses the shower over the bath everyday. I tried un-blockers (a chemical bottle) and it improved for a few days and then became slow draining again. My neighbour suggested the blockage could be...

Oh, I am now worried:) Could the crack be a sign of subsidence? But it's not diagonal, and not wider than 1mm. There is also a small cherry blossom tree in front of the house, but there is no crack in that part of the house.