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The light in my loft isn’t in a good place and only lights up half the loft. The loft has a long pitched roof of about 7m and there is a single bayonet light about 2m into the space and the nothing lighting the rest of the way so it’s like a long cave with light at one end. I want to extend the...

My toilet won't stop running when it's been flushed until I tap the button again at which point the running stops. I'm usually quite handy but haven't managed to work out what's going on - nothing I seem to be able to adjust makes any difference. Can someone tell me what I need to do...

We have a hairline crack where the extension meets the old house that will not die. The extension build is fine, tied in, all lovely (I watched it being built so I'm not unhappy with anything the builders did). The crack is tiny - maybe 1mm wide and vertical (pretty sure it's where a sheet of...

Thanks, do you have something specific you could suggest please? Searching foam pad isn't helping - there's too many different options. Thanks

The trickle vents in our 2nd floor loft bedroom are ridiculous - even closed it blows a gale up there when there's a storm like last night which makes the room freezing even with the heating on full blast, and crazy noisy. The blinds were blowing around last night So I'm going to block them up...

So if I screw maybe two batons of wood leaving a small gap between, then just cut along with the multitool? Yes, I agree, the tracksaw here scares me, plus no idea how I'd deal with the bit where it meets the floor if I did. You mean the piece of astragal that runs along the bottom of the stair...

We have a very large under stair cupboard - its hard to get to the back of it. I'd like to cut down the side where I've marked on the photo, to create a smaller cupboard at the bottom end. Everything will be painted after I've finished, but I still need to be super careful to make sure that I...

They charge 50p per cut, so I can save a fiver per board if I can work out how to do it myself, but you're right, that'd be an option too.

I've got a lot of shaker paneling to do in my house and would like to save money by ripping full size boards into slats myself. I am a reasonably competent DIY'er with fairly decent tools but don't have a workshop or table saw or even a proper saw horse. I do have a track saw (or a circular saw...

I'm finding it hard to get a pic that shows what's actually going on as I can only work it out by sticking my hand down there to feel around, but the drain hole is on the side of the drain about 10cm from the bottom and not the bottom of the recess. So whatever is going in there has to then lift...

Its London and unfortunately we get rats if I do that.

I own a ground floor flat. The flat upstairs is tenanted and their kitchen waste pipe empties into a drain that is in my garden. Despite being told again and again not to, the tenants put endless food down the drain - rice, sweetcorn, fat and god knows what else. It collects on top of the drain...

We are planning a PD loft conversion. The house has a gable front and back, and the roof apex runs front to back, sloping side to side. At the sides there are no eaves, none at all. The roof slope ends at the brick wall, and then there's guttering along the wall. The architect tells me we need...

No, just today.

I've patched a couple of small areas of hearth at either side of my wood burner. They areas are both triangular, about 10cm each side of the triangle and only about 1 - 1.5cm deep, just aesthetic repair after the fireplace was altered. I know normal curing time for concrete is about 30 days, but...

The two rads are on their own ‘spur’ I suppose. One tails off the spur half way to the other - like branches of a tree.

We have trv’s on all the rads. But the system still needs balancing as two rads are barely getting any heat but we still want all the rads fully hot so turning down the trv’s wouldn’t solve the problem.

I'm using the largest slotted screwdriver that fits. Its a very large head. Masses of pressure. Nothing happening.

I don't think so. Doesn't turn either way, but the one that does work turns the usual anti-clockwise.

Sadly we’ve tried that. Not moving at all.