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We have a fully tiled bathroom with a corner shower cubicle. We have lived here for over 15 years and have had regular (but fortunately not too frequent) problems with leaks behind the tiles in the corner of the shower cubicle. These have been solved by removing a couple of tiles when necessary...

Thanks for the reply and the suggestion but in all honesty I could foresee that the next strong wind would bring down the fence along with a couple of courses of bricks from the wall.

The dividing fence between us and our neighbours has finally succumbed to the wind and we have decided to share the cost of the replacement. The current fence was put up by the previous neighbour about 15 years ago with timber posts which ( I think) are bolted to the wall - wall is 9" brick...

Sorry, those aren't our windows - they are pictures from the contractor's website showing before and after shots of his Resin Repair service

Thanks for the reply, I would like to agree that original features are desirable but in my experience the first thing people do when they buy a house is rip out the wooden frames and bung in plastic ones - something which we have resisted till now. Anyway I have found a local company that offer...

We have a 100 year old house with the original wooden bay windows at the front of the property. Most of the other windows in the house have been replaced piece meal over the years but we always avoided replacing the front bays as we wanted to maintain the original frontage as much as possible...

Hi, Daughter has just moved into a flat whilst at University and has a Redring California electric shower fitted. She is struggling a bit with operating it properly as there are no user instructions at the flat. I have googled for information but no luck so far (nothing for this model on the...

Thanks, I will check out the battery first

Wonder if anyone could advise on this please? We have the above alarm installed which has worked fine in the past but we have not used for a number of months. I noticed today that the remote keypad backlight is working but no other indicators are lit (no power led or day led etc) and the keypad...

We had a survey carried out by an independent surveyor last year which confirmed two areas of damp in our property. The main (larger) problem around the front bay has been sorted but the second smaller damp area is on an internal wall in the downstairs cloakroom. We are about to look at...

Thanks for the feedback/advice everybody

Hi, After a bit of advice regarding some guttering. The gutter in question is on the back wall of the neighbour's garage which ajoins the rear of of our garden, it is ultimately the neighbour's responsibility but because it is hidden from and they could only get access via our garden I...

It is a pumped system, we have one pump for the HW and another for the CH (and a cylinder thermostat)

Thanks, That is just the sort of advice I was hoping for - do nothing :mrgreen:

We have a (very) old central heating system installed with a conventional floor mounted boiler and hot water storage tank in an airing cupboard. It is undoubtedly very inefficient but it works well and has caused no problems (apart form a replacement pump) in the 15 years we have been at the...

As above really, just tiled our bathroom floor and am planning on using some 12mm PVCu quadrant moulding to neaten up the joint between the tiled floor and the tiled wall. Could anyone suggest the best method of doing this please? Thanks

Trying to avoid that :D