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I'm not sure, I think it may be located in the upstairs airing cupboard with the copper hot water tank. Also, beside the hot water tank there's also a small red cyclinder about the size of a football. There's also a pressure gauge on this. Would this have anything to do with it?

Thanks, I'll give this a go this evening when I get back to the house. If this fails, is there anything else I can try? So I take it the heating system all runs in a circuit with the hot water going to the upstairs radiators first and then going back down through the downstairs radiators and...

We have a small two bedroom terrace house which we have rented out since last April. Prior to this we lived in the house ourselves for two years. When we first moved in we painted all the walls with Delux Barley White. When we moved out last April all the walls were perfect with no visible...

We have a small two bedroom terrace house that we rent out. This has oil fired central heating system with which there seems to be a problem. When we turn on the heating the burner in the back yard fires up and starts heating the water. The upstairs radiators will heat up fine but not the...

Now that I think about it, the moisture could be coming from drying clothes in these rooms. But we do keep the windows open on vent when drying the clothes, perhaps this is not enough ventilation. You think this may be the cause? With regards to the crack, it has got slightly worse lately...

There doesn't seem to be any yellow/brown staining, just the paint becoming powdery and flaking off. All of the floors (in both rooms) are solid concrete and the walls are solid block. The skirting boards in the living room are just tacked on at the minute as we have yet to put floors down...

We moved into a new build house about a year ago. We noticed about 3 months ago that on the kitchen/sunroom wall the paint on the wall just above the skirting board started to become flaky. This immediately looked like it was water that had got down behind the cavity wall. We got the builder out...

But what is the disadvantage (if any) in keeping it turned up high? Will it use more oil?

Our oil burner is located in the garage and has a thermostat attached to it. However we also have a thermostat in the hall of our house and so I was just wondering what the one in the garage is for? We always have had the one in the garage turned up to the maximum and then just use the one in...

Guys, I just want to double check then that this is the cistern valve that I can replace and that I can simply disconnect it with a normal spanner?

I think it may well be that the valve has been cross threaded. If so, is it possible to replace only the valve or does everything inside the cistern need replaced as well? What I'm trying to say is that can you buy valves separately and then replace them?

Could it be possibly that the bolt is on the wrong thread of the plastic part? Or would there be a bigger leak if it was on the wrong thread?

We recently had the toilet installed back into the utility room toilet room after the floor was tiled. However, there seems to be a very slight leak where the copper pipe connects to the cistern. Water seems to gather on top of the bolt that is attached to the plastic part of the cistern. See...

We recently got cream tiles laid in the hall, kitchen and sunroom. We decided to go with brown grout. However, the brown grout seems to be very discoloured i.e. there are parts that are a very light grey!! This doesn't look the best as I'm sure you can imagine. Is there anything that can be done...

I've tiled up to the cooker hood and now I'm in a dilemma as to whether or not to take the cooker hood off! You can see pictures of the tiles and the cooker hood here . Here are my concerns against both taking off the hood and tiling around it: Taking Hood Off - The tiles are slightly...

It seems to be coming out of the wall diagonally.

I don't know what that means, sorry.

There is cable coming out of the kitchen wall that will be used to wire up lights on the underside of the cupboards and also for spotlights along the top of the cupboards. However this cable is coming out at a much lower point than where the cupboards begin so I will have to track this cable...

Maybe it's the cement he's referring to. He said that he has done it before so I think it should be safe enough. Suppose the worst that can happen is that the toilet will come loose so we can just get it drilled down then.

We have tiled our bathroom floor with porcelain tiles and are in the process of trying to find a drill bit that won't burn out when trying to drill the holes for the toilet! However, my day was talking to a plumber who said that it's not necessary to screw the toilet down as there is a...