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Hi trying to decide pro's and con's of what is best way forward. Our Economy 7 meter got damaged (a bit cracked and glass broken) several years ago by a meter reader who tripped and lent on the hoover hose pushing it into the meter to stop himself falling. The meter remained working and the guy...

I was just thinking does the ply need to be marine ply or will decent ordinary ply work?

Yes forgot to mention the noggins, I was going to do that too, they recommended it too. I was thinking of replacing the old floorboards with plywood so as you advise it I think that is what I will do, thanks for the tips.

I want to run large tiles from concrete floor to suspended timber floor without using an expansion joint. To explain the layout first we have a house with an existing single storey extension across the width of the back of the house, which is about 5.5m wide internally and 3.8m deep towards the...

Hi, I have tiled our extension/kitchen diner with 600mm x 900mm Porcelain tiles on top of a Warmup heated floor on top of 10mm Prowarm Backer-Pro tile backer board which is on top of a latex leveller on concrete but from the extension I now have to continue laying tiles on to the narrower...

Hi I am not a mechanic but I have done a fair share of work on cars in my younger years and I always thought it fairly simple to check the wear on brake pads but recently something happened that made me completely doubt myself. My 82 year old mother took her car to her regular mechanic who does...

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Can anybody help me progress with this, I am totally stuck? I have bought and set up a Quinetic wireless Wifi receiver with a switch. I can control it from anywhere, even miles away via my phone, so that part is working well, but I received an Echo Dot Alexa for Christmas and I have tried...

Hi can somebody guide me to best humidity extractor to buy please? It’s for our kitchen/dining room which is L-shaped. Kitchen is about 6m long and 2.6m wide with dinning bit being end part of that and about 5.6m x 3.8m. We are hoping to renew the kitchen in the next couple of years but for the...

Thanks catlad for the advice but where do i use the expanding foam? If you mean at the sides of the roof, it will push the barge board out as it expands? Is there a reason for putting Celotex on the external skin as opposed to the inner skin, just interested to know?

Hi I need some advice please on insulation. I am a retired electrician so I have some technical background when it comes to the makeup of house construction and I am quite hands on with doing stuff to the house. I recently had a warm roof put on my leaking flat roof extension at the back of my...

Hi Can you help me with this quote guys, is it about right or excessively expensive? My reaction was its excessively expensive but then I am not the builder pricing things up. I have some understanding coming from a Building Services background as a qualified electrician now retired. I have a...

Hi I have a flat roof on an extension that is 6.3m wide and 4m deep. The felt is in a bad state and so I want to get it recovered but we would now like to fit a large lantern into the roof of 4m x 2m. Will we need steels or will timber still be ok? Ive spoken to one guy who is a builder and he...

sorry typo above on model number, I have corrected it above too now C60ETX

Hi I am retired but have electrical knowledge from my old job and I have a Cannon floor standing oven, model C60ETX which is not working properly. It seems to be taking forever to get to the maximum temperature of 230deg which my wife uses all the time as a keen cook. Now a bit of history, I...

Update, sorry it took me so long to come back on here but had to get my wife to give it a real test to be sure of everything. I ordered the new circular 1600W element and while that was on its way decided to completely remove the fan and see what I could find. I cleaned it up and lubricated it...