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Hi Can anyone help I've just had a new green star i boiler installed the gas engineer who fitted it for me ( my ex) is now not speaking to me ( won't bore you with domestics ) so I've not been shown how to se the controls - I don't have the wall thermostat just the boiler in a cupboard. I can't...

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Apart from getting the team of decorators in! Sadly no dosh for that luxury!

Thanks, no it's not a huge house in London we're not renovating a million plus pile! it's a 2 bedroom avge sized end terrace in a village in NE Scotland. We don't have spare money ( both have own mortgages), to get a decorator in or believe me we would have done it in a flash! Completely...

Hi & help! My sister & I have been refurbing our deceased dads house, has been a mega job, had to completely neutralize his very arty much loved decor - but was decor that would have sent potential buyers running for the hills! Anyway have ivoried all walls & ceilings thanks to my mr Bosch...

Hi apologies for the late reply but thanks to all who replied - really helpful

Hi A work collegue wants to get someone profesional to paint her good sized double bedroom. I have absolutely no idea what it would cost to get someone in to paint it. I am the one at home who is left with the painting myself and have never had the luxury of getting someone in to do it. Does...

Hi radiator in our kitchen is turned off - not the bit on the right that has an arrow on it to turn on/off but the bit(?valve) on the left. It has a cap on it when i take the cap off theres a brass pin sticking up with a big nut thingy underneath - is this what i turn so the radiator will come...

hi & thanks, the house is in a desirable area - in a village a short commute on a good road to Aberdeen and the centre of a lot of the Oil & related industry companies. Also has a garage and good sized private garden. I suppose if we went ahead with the doube gazing it would aso make it more...

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Hi have to sell my deceased fathers house, the windows are a mess, warped wooden frames with no double glazing. Should we get it double glazed before we try to sell? ( Its in Aberdeenshire so a cold place in winter). If so does anyone have any ideas of how many thousands it would be around...

Hi, im trying to sort out my elderley fathers bathroom. He had a nasty rubber backed carpet down for years, Ive pulled it up and dumped it, but there are areas of the wood floor that are damp. Is there something i can use to seal the damp wood before laying vinyl tiles? I know we should leave it...

hi & help to cut a long story short, our kitchen mixer tap is broken, one tap bit has only 2 prong thingys on it ( the bit you turn to get the water on) & now the whole thing leaks continually & we get water hammer noise regularly. Is it an easy job to change the thing?? can i just change the...

thanks for tips, got the stuff out today ....now to try again!! :D

a friend of mine lost the top 2 parts of one of his fingers years ago - he was working for the forrestry dept somewhere in scotland & was showing a bunch of yts (youth trainees) how to use the saw safely.......when he chopped off his finger. he said he bent down, picked up his finger from the...

hi my husband is a plumber who will not do any diy around our house. so its left to me( definitely not a tradesperson of any stretch of the imagination) to sort out botch jobs that were done before we bought our property. ( sadly with my own botch jobs replacing them!!!) ive just drilled...

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hi our bathroom when refurbished before we bought our flat just had the tiles slapped down onto concrete with no grouting or anything in between. as you can imagine it ended up very stained ( very quickly)so we've drilled out between the tiles to allow us to grout. is there some sort of...

thanks, i think i will go for the pull out option - have found one at b&q & its time i learned to drill holes. my last diy effort involved blu tac to put up a blind (its still holding!!!)

thanks masona, looks good but eeeeeek the price. i'll stay crumpled for a bit longer!!!