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Hi people. Have a concealed cistern toilet which keeps running after flushing. However if we turn the water off and then back on it will stop flushing and fill up properly! Can't investigate fully as the cabinet it is fitted to won't allow the lid to come off the cistern so it's tiles off and...

Hi, Probably been asked many times but specifics always makes you wonder if its applicable to your case:- I am having to empty my loft due to getting it treated for woodworm. The loft is used heavily for storage & is boarded out throughout. It currently has 70mm of fibreglass insulation as...

Hi all, Need help with this one. My elderly parents keep their walkers in their garage which has a Henderson Electric Roller door. It's gone wrong and they can't now get their walkers in and out their selves. They have been telling me the door has been playing up for weeks getting stuck open...

Hi All, Went in the loft today to have a bit of a tidy up and found some dust on things that looked like wood dust, looked around and found some woodworm holes in quite a few of the roofing timbers. House was built around 1970. I would say there are 10-30 holes per timber. I had a look on here...

Hi all, Any ideas whether I can get parts to fix this stop cock from anywhere? Basically I need the head. House was built in the 1970s. I turned it off to do some plumbing and it seized shut. Tried taking it out but it is in such an awkward place, managed to get the nuts undone but there is...

Hi all..... I have a porch with nothing under it (if that makes sense) the roof is felted and the underside clad in UPVC. I got on the roof at the weekend as I wanted to check the seals around the window above. On getting on the roof I noticed that the left.most section in the picture below was...

Hi All, My Ideal Isar HE24 seems to have a weird problem. It works but when hot water is called for & the flow is not fully on the pump cam be heard to ramp up & down continuously. The pressure also them rises & drops with thepump noise. The pressure rise is only a few hundred mbar but...

Hi, Got given the above MacBook Pro. It came with no hard drive. I have put a SSD in but need to install the operating system. I don't have another Mac only a PC. I've asked around and no one I know has any Mac install media. How do I go about installing it? Thanks in advance

Hi all, My elderly parents boiler is playing up. Had a heating Engineer out as it kept doing silly things, various error codes. He replaced the PCB, thermistor and phial. Since then it has been going into reset which I understand means it has overheated. Called the plumber back, he promised to...

What is the L shaped metal rod for on this mitre gauge. I have two bandsaws and both have them and done a search and can't find what they are actually for. Help!

Hi all, I thought I would check the expansion vessel pressure on my sealed heating system. I put a tyre gauge on the vale and no air came out. If I use a pump to inflate the pressure vessel the boiler pressure goes up but I still can't get any pressure reading from the valve. I don't get any...

I can't for the life of me work out how to adjust these hinges on a set of fold out patio doors. Quite old and fitted to my garage but the main opening is now hitting the other door. Help appreciated!!!

Hi All, Anybody know of any products that allow two way switching of USB power? I have a USB light over the bed which I want me & the Mrs to be able to switch on & off using something similar to those inline switches you get with a table lamp. I could of course get some single pole double throw...

Hi Guys, I have just had a message from Shell Energy stating that the teleswitch signal is being switched off permanently in March 2023 & I have to have my meter changed. I used to have storage heaters but many years ago moved to gas. We still use about 1/3 of our electricity at night so it...

Howdy Folks... Slightly oddball fault. I've had a 3 phase inverter for some time but never got round to fitting it, lent it to a friend as his went wrong, he used it & all was fine. He gave it back to me the other week & I decided to fitted it this week to my garage. I have wired it in to its...

Hi, pics are of the old heat exchanger on an Ideal ISAR HE24. Should they look like this? I believe it is the hot tap side that has gone like this. I would even go as far as saying that some of the stuff could be plastic from the plastic pump housing it mounts to

As per title. I bought a listed as "new" heat exchanger for an Ideal ISAR HE24 off E-Bay but it has marks on it that makes me think it might be used. See attached. Appreciate any feedback

Hi I have this consumer unit connected via a Henley block to the meter. It powers my garage via the 32A MCB and the shower via the 40A MCB. It only has a 63 A RCD. I know I can apply diversity. So I'd this safe? Also, is the RCD actually a RCCB or should there also be an overcurrent device...

Hi, Realised last night that my toilet was slowly overfilling. I had assumed that it was a fluid master as the washer looked similar but it isn't. Any ideas on make and where to get a washer from? Fluid master washer on the left. My washer on the right. I've put the old one back in for now as...

Hi All, I have inherited the above vice a while ago & given the curent situation thought it was about time I did something with it. I have a couple of questions:- 1. Any ideas where I can get a replacement spring from?The original has snapped but I have bodged it for the moment with a jubilee...