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A day or two sounds good enough to me! Flowing water is less likely to freeze and during the day, water will be used regularly, so it is mainly just to stop it freezing overnight, when it can go down to -20 c. If I do still get problems I could use something like the heating bands they make for...

I have had to run a new water supply pipe to my house so that I could incorporate a water filter. The pipework is 25mm alkathene and a few inches are exposed outside, above ground before it goes through the wall. What kind of lagging should I use for this outside pipework?

There is not much to see now, just discolouring of the white painted walls. The old plaster was falling off and some of the bricks were crumbling, as though damaged by frost. I re-pointed the brickwork, re-plastered and eventually painted. This was over a year ago but the paint quickly goes...

Some ovens have a door switch which turns the fan off when the door is opened. If it has this facility the switch may have failed.

As I said, the damp is in the internal walls so none of the causes you mention apply. There are pipes buried in walls but not in the areas that are damp. I thought moisture meters were what surveyors used to check for damp. :?

I suspected that the bottom of some of my internal walls were damp and have now confirmed this using a cheap Lidl moisture meter. The outside walls have a painted on damp course but the internal ones have no damp course at all. I remember when I bought mt first house in 1981 the mortgage lender...

I have been discussing this on the LDV Facebook group with a chap from Ukraine who converts these vans to left hand drive. He was telling me there is a plastic segment you can remove which allows the bulb to be rotated to a different position. I have done this and will try the lights when it...

Dishwashers can sometimes be very difficult to work on due to their construction but if you can get to the electric water valve you could check the resistance of the solenoid coil/s using a multimeter. If they are a few thousand ohms they are OK, infinity ohms tells you a coil is burnt out.

I would start by looking to see if there is an obvious visible fault such as burnt wires that have shorted together.

You say it is not fully draining? Do you mean there is a small amount of water left in the drum when you unload the machine? It could be a simple partial blockage of your waste plumbing. You could pull the machine out and see if it will drain OK into a bucket. If it does not drain properly into...

The design of catch mechanism varies but a common type has a loop of bent steel bar mounted on the door frame with a central screw you can loosen and adjust the bar inwards or outwards. If this is the sort you have you need to adjust it outwards just enough to make the door click shut like it...

I use PTFE tape as rarely as possible, as nearly every time I do use it, the joint leaks! Here in Hungary there are no compression fittings but lots of fittings using pipe threads. I have started using liquid PTFE but it never sets so you gradually get a small puddle of the stuff under the...

Just wondered what people think of wetwall as an alternative to tiling in bathrooms? I have done a couple of bathrooms for other people but not lived with the stuff long term myself. I mentioned this on another forum and someone said it quickly gets stained.

Probably just needs a minor adjustment to the door catch but I would complain to the kitchen fitters and get them back.

In UK, this is what people think of when you talk about a Minivan, and no, it won't! http://www.simoncars.co.uk/mini/minicv.html

No, you don't need to disturb any of the existing appliance connections. You just find a convenient piece of existing waste pipe under the sink or behind the dishwasher, use the tool supplied to cut a hole in that pipe then the fitting clamps onto the pipe. It should come with instructions...

This should really be in the plumbing section but you could use this kit: http://www.screwfix.com/p/washing-machine-drain-out-kit/75883

Shaver adapters normally will take the round pins of a UK shaver flex or the US flat type. I would guess the adapter was plugged into a 13 amp socket in UK.

Thanks for the tip, it looks like I have found some: http://www.ldv.cz/lighting-mirrors

They were exported but only in very small numbers. There was also a version of the van made in Turkey but various people I have contacted there have not been helpful. :( They used to allow the beam deflectors but I'm told they tightened up on the regulations and they no longer pass them like...