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I bought a new vacuum cleaner about a week ago. It is a Zanussi 1400 watt. That was about the lowest power machine I could find, a lot of them were about 2000 watts. There should be no need for such high powered motors. The old Hoover Junior used about 250 watts and the Senior was about 650...

It sounds like there is a problem with one of the door switches (there are usually about 3). The most common problem with these is a broken plastic hook on the door catch. Microwave repairs, even just to the door, are not a DIY job so you are best to take out the appliance and take it to a...

Those flaps are only to lock the hinges in place after they are hooked into the oven. They do not stop the hinges from operating. What you do is offer up the hinges to the holes in the oven, pull the door downwards until the whole of each flap is exposed, lift up the flaps, waggle the hinges...

There is no photo. Is there a phone number for customer service with the fridge freezer? It might be worth giving them a ring to ask their advice.

Thanks, the tool in the link does not look strong enough, as the parts are probably locked together by limescale but I might be able to make something with iron pipe and bolts to do the same job. :)

I recently bought a house in Croatia and the bathroom includes a bidet but with a broken mixer tap. With some difficulty I removed the old tap but the new one also comes with its own waste fittings and plug mechanism. The old waste is proving to be much more difficult to remove. It seems to be...

I have just bought a house in Croatia and am in the process of installing a septic tank system. I am not sure what diameter or type of fittings to use for venting and emptying the tank. The tank is a plastic one with 3 chambers so I assume I will need to provide 3 emptying points.

I see there is someone on Ebay selling converted 1000 litre water containers (the sort used by farmers) for use as septic tanks. These seem a bit small to me but I wondered if this could be converted: http://www.njuskalo.hr/grijanje-hladenje-ostalo/spremnik-loz-ulje-2000l-oglas-8402714

My electrics were a disaster but not DIY, standard Hungarian practice in the '60s. There are lots of small round conduit junction boxes mounted high up on the wall. The wires are just twisted together and wrapped with cloth insulting tape. In several cases the last few inches of insulation was...

I did hear of someone who built an internal wall by laying bricks directly onto the carpet. :roll:

I have been using Photobucket for some years now, as a lot of forum sites only allow photos hosted elsewhere. When I joined there was less interest in password security and the email address I had then has changed about four times in the intervening years. I have never given this any thought...

I have much the same in my place, with a mixture of copper and aluminium round the house. In some places I have fitted larger junction boxes to accommodate chocolate block type connectors instead of the twisted together joints. So far I've not had any symptoms of material mismatch problems. I...

Could there be moisture from somewhere getting under the cooker and evaporating off when the oven is on? I don't think the fault is with the cooker so I would not think about buying a new one at this stage.

I recently fitted a new door and frame to my firewood store. It came with hinges and the latch but no lock cylinder or handles so I had to buy those later. The cylinder lock seems to be the right overall length to fit with the ends flush to the surface of the cut-outs in the handles but when I...

Mine does not even have the luxury of a consumer unit! The lighting and sockets are all on the same circuit which just relies on a circuit breaker before the meter. There is another meter for cheap rate which just goes to the water heater. Again there is circuit breaker before the meter and that...

The stuff I bought is stranded. I got it from a big electrical merchant, not a DIY place so I would have thought it is the stuff the sparkies use. I did find that it would not go through the holes in one of the sockets I bought. I'm told I have to get some crimp ends to go with the stranded wire.

Hungarian wiring is horrible, especially in older houses like mine. Most of the wires are aluminium rather than copper. The joints in the junction boxes are simply twisted together and wrapped with insulting tape. Half the sockets have no earth. The supply for the house is only 20 amps so I...

Thanks, undistilled. I have ordered the threading tool plus a load of other stuff from Screwfix. I see they have changed their policy about delivery charges. When I lived in Scotland I used to get a lot of stuff from Screwfix but then they started charging £12 for delivery to certain postcode...

I am putting extra sockets in my house in Hungary. I had a reel of twin & earth from UK but I have used that up and they don't sell it here. Standard practice here is to run individual wires in conduit so that is what I'm attempting to do. I have a reel of flexible conduit but I'm finding it...

Take the lid off and see if there is a belt round the drum. Does the drum turn OK by hand or is it stiff to turn? The belt may have broken but it could be the starter condenser that has failed. The noise could have been bits of damaged belt thrashing around or you could have a more serious fault...