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Glad to hear. Replacing the top sash is more of a PITA for them than the bottom one. With both, they need to remove the staff bead (inside of the property), with the upper sash, they will also need to remove the parting bead (the timber between the two sashes)...

Image 20260316_173950.jpg Someone has slapped paint over the crack between the rail and style (very badly). Those units are typically sprayed with waterbased paints. Did they paint it in the hope that you wouldn't notice? The lock splits, doesn't lock good but doesn't make much difference...

Dortech tell timber ones. https://www.dortechdirect.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/2010.html I haven't used them though.

Assuming that it is a new dishwasher, it should be supplied with a paper template to show you where to fit the mounting plate to the back of the door. As per @flameport 's post, you will probably need to cut a horizontal notch into the plinth. Most dishwashers only have 3 feet. The solitary...

My Metabo cordless has a max torque of 130Nm but you can get a torque amplifier. It will increase the torque by up to x3. Not cheap though.

AFAIK, smoke detectors should be replaced every 10 years. I am guessing that 1998 is the year of manufacture.

Last year, I had to remove a customer's faulty Bosch integrated washing machine. She was selling the house and went for a cheapo Beko machine. The top hinge hole was ok, the lower one, I had to fill it with white two pack filler and then use a 35mm cutter to make a hole about 20-25mm higher...

That might work if the door liner is on a timber stud wall, but if it is brick, it won't help. Personally, I use superglue and matches. If the hole is particular large, I use a dowel and glue.

Sanding will rectify it but I still think it looks like the first coat of paint pulled off because it wasn't diluted properly. New plaster is very porous. If you do not thin the first coat (as per the directions on the tin) the water in the paint is sucked into the plaster rather than...

Hard to tell from the photo if it was bad plastering or not. Did you paint it? It looks (to me) like someone forgot to the thin the first coat of emulsion and then applied the second coat which then pulled the first coat off. Personally, I would use a DA (random orbital) sander (with 100 grit...

I have to admit that when I built my kitchen cabinets and doors, I did the fake shaker thing. I borrowed a vacuum press from a mate. 9m on 9m, glue and a few 18G brads. It worked for me but I didn't have the have the skill set or set up to do the doors properly. Never heard of Finsa before...

I am a decorator. I occasionally work in properties with "tape and join" walls and ceilings. It looks like the 90 degree tape has delaminated. My advice would be to cut through the paper . Often, but not always, you can cut through the join and then apply caulk over it. You may, or not...

As above, your photo looks like a shower enclosure. I think you need a more obvious photo. Regardless, I think that it will be difficult to fix it. Why can the door not be replaced? It is rare to encounter doors that cannot be removed. Absent of images, I am only speculating. Best of luck

Another cabinet maker, who's (whose?) units I used to hand paint, used 22mm MDF for the rails and styles (approx 1.8m tall). From memory, he used 9mm panels and used 9mm off cuts as the "biscuits". No notable flexing but he used small brass butt hinges rather than 35mm cup hinges. I guess that...

I recall having to spray shaker doors for a cabinet maker years ago. He too used MR MDF and although they were only kitchen cabinet doors they flexed a lot. The guy is one of the best cabinet makers that I have ever worked for. He eventually concluded that the MDF was of an inferior quality.

Wall warts are large plugs. Presumably the original power supply had a standard sized plug.

@blackworx . Thanks for the heads up.

Yup. From memory, it might have been you who initially recommended them. If so, many thanks. They are now the ones I am most likely to purchase.

That is why, based on advice from here, I went for the (non-LAP) one with a samsung chip and 5 year warranty. The LAP flood lights (that I fitted) are not reliable enough to recommend. The first was less expensive than my chargeable labour time. Granted, the second only took minutes to swap...

Did Devsi give you a reasonable quote? Your feedback will help me when I come to recommending him (or not). I really rate him, but yeah, there may be other Gas Safe plumbers that I can recommend to my customers. AFAIK, you are allowed to recommend whomever it was that you used. It will help...