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Hi, Some progress. I got the filter out, some slight gunge but nothing serious. I tipped up the machine and a lot of water came out. After that I have been able to start a wash cycle, but I don't know yet if it is going to drain. David

Hi, My Beko DVS04X20W isn't draining. Only two years old, very disappointing. I can't get the filter out but I will work on that, the manual isn't very clear about how to do it. What I have done is disconnect the drain hose from where it joins the main drainage system under the kitchen...

Thank you. I hadn't though of covering the existing timber with cladding.

My fear is that the water is getting in at the top, which it might be because the roof is a fibre-glass sheet (that's what it looks like), with hairline cracks. If I clad in PVC then the water won't get out, which I think was what was happening when it was all sealed up with paint. If I leave...

Hello all, In the past I have treated the facia boards on my house extension with wood stain (see picture). If I do that again I reckon I'd probably have to remove the old wood stain before applying new. Would it be a good idea for me just to remove all the obvious loose wood stain, then...

Hello all. I have had a problem with the door post on my porch for years. Every year or maybe every second year I find that I need to re-paint the post. At the bottom it is usually damp and a bit rotten so I let it dry out, apply wood hardener and filler, then paint it again. I don't know...

Sorry everyone, the overflow pipe does lead out of the wall, but it it isn't easy to spot. I took the suggestion to tip some water down the overflow, then went outside and there was a damp patch on my (very white) roughcast. I still couldn't see the pipe it is flush with the wall not sticking...

I live in a semi-detached house built by Wimpy in the late 70s. Block and block cavity wall construction, and the cavity has been filled with insulating polystyrene beads. Will the gable wall in the roof space (the triangular bit of the gable wall) also be double-skin with an air gap? Or as...

There isn't a redundant pipe sticking out of the house anywhere. There is one for the central heater header tank and no others. A couple of weeks ago the ballcock on the tank failed to shut off the water supply. Water spilled over into the overflow pipe, which leaked at a bend which I think...

It comes out the bottom of the tank, connected to a vertical tube inside the tank. If the ball cock fails and the tank keeps filling up the water level rises over the top over that vertical pipe and spills into it. From there it is supposed to flow through that pipe and exit outside the...

Hi folks The overflow pipe from the cold water tank in my roof space can be seen going into the wall (see picture) but it cannot be seen exiting on the outside of the house. Why is it like this? Could it be connected to a drain somewhere with the wall cavity? Could some cowboy plumbers have...

Thanks everyone. I have a quote to replace the water tank of £725 all in. This may seem a bit high but it includes core-cutting a hole through the wall and a coffin tank. And also I live in Edinburgh and things ain't cheap here. But the thing is that the whole system including the boiler is...

Thank you, I am in Scotland but presume that regs will be (almost) the same. Hopefully an SDS drill will be adequate for the hole?

The tank is an elderly fiberglass tank, there are some cracks around the top. It is bulging outwards due to the weight of the water in it and I have put a wooden brace across the top to stop it bulging any more. I could probably make a better job of supporting it with a wooden framework around...

I have assumed that when a machine reaches 11 years of age that all those rubber hoses and things are getting bit worn out and the risk of a flood increases. So I will write the old machine off it is a budget priced Beko and which served me well.

Thank you, makes sense. By a few hundred might that mean maybe £500 TO £800 including bits, labour, tax, etc? Needs to be a coffin tank to get through a hatch, they seem to be quite pricey.

Last night a bit of water was dripping through our bathroom ceiling. I had a quick look and will be doing more of an investigation after writing this. So far it looks like the ballcock didn't completely shut off the water entering the cold water tank in the roof, there was a trickle entering...

Thanks folks, new machine it is.

My washing machine drum doesn't even try to rotate. Machine fills and drains but anything to do with turning the drum results in silence, no whirring or clicking noises of any kind. Any ideas? Control board? Motor brushes? Machine, a Beko, is maybe ten years old or more. The motor has been...

I got up on a ladder and had a look at the cover piece and it seemed okay. Whilst I was there put some more sealant over bits that might not have been 100% good. So far it seems to have stopped the leak. But the leak happened after a few days of very heavy rain coming from the North East...