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    Door hinge wear, needs replacing but why?

    We had our house internal doors replaced approximately 8 years ago with veneered doors, each having three ZOO ball bearing hinges, top, middle and bottom. On a few of the doors, the top hinge has worn on several occasions, with the hinge having excess play, causing the door to lean and catch on...
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    Terminating garden lighting cables

    Hi, I have a string of 240V LED garden hanging bulbs which I need to shorten and seek advice on how to safely terminate the end please. The cable is 2 core "flat" cable and quite small. The only thing I can think of is an outdoor junction box, making a small nick in one of the bottom seals and...
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    Remove TRV head and use lockshield to manage the flow question.

    Hi, We have TRV on every radiator in our house with the exception of the bathroom radiator. We have a wireless thermostat sat in kitchen extension as it's the (second) coldest room, the radiator TRV is set to 5. Every other room gets to temperature quickly, therefore the kitchen temperature...
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    Programmer setting for system boiler

    We live in a late 80s house which had a boiler with two tanks in the loft which topped up the radiators and the immersion heater. There was/is a 3 port valve next to the immersion heater which would actuate on demand. The programmer was a mechanical Glowworm which failed pretty much straight...
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    Remeha Avanta 24s E5 issue..

    Good evening folks. This boiler is about 12 years old and has recently been displaying E5 error codes, pressing reset has got the boiler back into what I assume was running correctly but I suspect that in reality it has just been trying to fire up and recycling the water. After a while the...
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    4G lighting to 3G combining 2 lives.

    Hi, Currently have a 4G wall plate in a kitchen extension, however, two of the four are in a location where I feel control by one dimmer would be adequate. The area is eight 5 Watt downlighters currently on two Hamilton LEDITB100 which, if following the down rating guidance, would be within the...
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    Leave Velux when converting to GRP

    Looking into the conversion of our 10 degree tiled extension roof to GRP. Is it possible to leave the Velux (I believe they should be at least at 15 degrees) when the GRP is fitted? Not sure if these can trimmed up to be waterproof. Thanks in advance.
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    Help with insulation

    Hi, First post here after reading some threads and unsure of how to fix this problem. We have had an extension built and a small WC extension to the side of the house. The WC is a lot cooler than the extension and never reches room temp. Both the extension and WC were dob and dabbed...
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