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Thanks. Most of my roof isn’t felted hence loads of fresh air circulating and no smell. I‘ll get someone in after Xmas.

Hi all. In May 2019 I contacted the council as my wife saw a rat on my neighbours doorstep, and I saw one coming out of a road drain across the road. A few weeks later another neighbour said they had had rats in their attic and couldn’t understand how they got there, and pest control sorted it...

Are all hybrid polymer sealants as good as each other? After black with anti mould. Screwfix no nonsense x8 £9.99 OB1 £14.99 Stixall £6.29 Evo Stik The dogs *****. £9.99 thanks

thanks, tiled already, did have grout but most came out, I removed the rest.

Hi all. Have thick tiles hence have at least 10mm deep gap (as in gap from front of tile to the wall behind it, not gap between tile and worktop) Am I being stupid if fill the depth with silicon and make it flush with the tiles rather than having a 45 degree bead? thanks

Now the sun’s shining through front window, can see where it’s coming from by the rings

Many thanks. The rear window is where it’s worst, as you can see from pics, radiator isn’t under the window, window has fly net on, when I bought my piano, as it had to go underneath the window, I also purchased UV protective film which is on the back windows. Pulled piano out, and took...

Hi all, In our living room we have laminate flooring, skirting board (installed after flooring, hence covers edge of flooring), papered then painted walls, wooden window sills. Last January we had central heating installed. Soon after we kept finding these patterned bits of paper that flaked...

Thanks, I was debating whether to post in painting or plumbing section, chose this one as I hoped a lot of plumbers would have seen this problem. Am happy if mods want to move it. Attached a pic, apologies for dust on floor etc

About 12 years ago our toilet was replaced. At the time the soil pipe was sanded down back to metal and as far as I'm aware (not sure) metal paint was applied. New toilet and lino being installed next week, as you can see from the pic, rust and a line along the top has gradually appeared over...

Thanks, if I phone Anglian, I suspect they will be trying to sell me new windows and will be hassling me for the next 6 months. I'll get some samples. Looking at the seal, it closes against the short bit marked in red in attached pic. Imagine you're looking out of the right window, the seal...

Hi all 11 year old Anglian windows, need to replace a couple of the frame seals (not the glass seals). I've attached pics of the existing ones that I cant find anywhere, am I right in presuming I could replace them with something close like The first pic I can use bubble seal The second...

Last one in the chain flickers once it’s been on a few mins, if I remove the bulb, the flickering moves to next one in chain. if I replace the old halogen transformers with https://cpc.farnell.com/powerpax/led-dr-12v-1250-15w/led-driver-12vdc-1-25a-15w/dp/PW04025?CMP=TREML007-005 should it...

I found a loose connection, all seems fine now, however I noticed one of the 6 ballast for the 12v has the mains lives wired N and the Neutral wired to L. Does this matter? thanks

Thanks, what I don’t understand is how removing one 12v halogen caused both the GU5.3 and the GU10 bulbs not to work. All the other lights worked 100% fine. As soon as I replaced (blown) halogen, as said in my original post, both the GU10 and GU5.3 started flickering for a min or two and now...

Hi, sons just moved into a new (to him) house. kitchen has 3 GU10 bulbs in light fitting, landing has 6 GU5.3 bulbs. All halogen. Only one of the six on the landing was working. I removed one of the others (which is how I found out they were GU5.3) and only two of the three GU10 in the...

Thanks. The insulation I’ve got is https://www.wickes.co.uk/Knauf-100mm-Space-Bottom-Layer-Loft-Roll-Insulation---8-3m2/p/166877# According to the data sheet it’s suitable for insulating between floors. cant change it for anything else at the moment due to lockdown, so it will have to do :)

The cooker wire has a 40 amp fuse on it. Looking at http://www.cable-ratings.co.uk/ It seems to say my 2.5mm for the immersion when in insulation is 18.5A or 17.5A (not sure why there's 2 columns?) so that having an 16amp breaker, I presume is fine. My cooker wire is 6mm and not 10mm...

Hi all. Kitchen ceiling has a sheet of plasterboard as it's ceiling, the bedroom upstairs gets both smells noise and cold from the kitchen. The wiring is all rooted through top (or near top) of joists. I intend to put 4" insulation on the plasterboard, which will under the wiring. But some...

Many thanks all I think unplugging is going to be the safest option, I will check the phone pole. A friend has Virgin, when the hospital was struck, he lived about 1/4 a mile away and he lost everything, big insurance claim