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We have a Tower Ceraglide cordless iron. This week it's been tripping the socket RCD when used. I've borrowed a friend's iron, same make and model and it's fine. When base unit plugged in with no iron it's fine but when my iron is connected to base it trips, but the other iron didn't trip it, so...

I've been given some vinyl planks and intend to install in one of the bedrooms in the house. What kind of underfloor would I need??. It's bare floorboards but obviously I know I can't lay direct in these. Would it be best to lay onto thin plywood or cork boards, or would something better be...

How long should these things last. I have 2 sets of spotlights in my kitchen with 4 bulbs in each. These GU10s keep having issues. They normally manifest by either flickering or go a bit dim and when light turned off they stay on for a couple of seconds flicker and go off. It's pretty random...

Hi. I've recently noticed the hot water flow/pressure in all taps is pretty low, when shower is on and a hot water tap opened the shower flow almost stops. Cold water pressure appears ok. I have a Ideal logic combi 24 boiler that has given no issues and is regularly serviced. Central heating is...

A couple of bulbs have blown in the bathroom down lights. All bar 1 appear to have corroded and I cannot unscrew them to get the bulb out. I've kept 1 out and sprayed wd40 into the area where is unscrews and hopefully will work otherwise it's new ones. Question is, are all down lighters about...

My bathroom sink has one of these god forsaken things. Yesterday it stuck in the down position and refused to move. I finally got it back up using a sucker. I've unscrewed the head and squirted wd40 down the side of the mechanism, and it seems to be moving ok,but as it's started doing this, does...

We've had a proper roof put onto our conservatory recently. My wife wants curtains up in there now. They won't be heavy duty, but the only place to put the rail is to screw into the UPVC covering at the top of the windows. I've posted a pic. Is it ok to do this... I was going to drill a very...

Want to put a dimmer switch in 1 bedroom but I've never fitted a dimmer switch to an led light before and after reading up I'm even more confused. People are now talking about leading and trailing edges and minimum wattages. I know I need to get a specific dimmable led bulb. I've seen these on...

Does anyone know best way to seal these gaps in the drain trench around my conservatory. The narrow one I would have thought some clear silicone sealant but what about the larger gaps. Should I use sand and cement and them seal once dried or other way.

Been clearing the front garden, and I noticed the front guttering down pipe was draining onto vegetation. I investigated further and under this vegetation was a gutter which is completely blocked with soil. I've managed to completely clear around this drain, got the cover off and removed around...

Hi. I have been replacing the white sockets in the front room with antique brass. All went ok until the last one. Got the white front off and there were 4 cables in the back, so it looks a bit of a tight fit. Anyhow got it all to fit and when screwing the new socket on, it appears one side has...

I am changing my white plastic light switches to antique brass. I took one off, ensuring everything was labelled. On the old switch both com terminals were at the top, L1 and L2 bottom. On this new one (BG). One of the switches has com at top the other com at bottom. I wired as the old, live to...

We have had a bad sewer snell in the kitchen and bathroom for a couple of months now. It tends to come and go. Just some history first ... Around 17yrs ago a mate did some bathroom work, but couldn't finish it, so I got a local plumber in. He thought it would be a good idea to lop off the...

My house has the living room ceiling, part of the front room staircase and porce artexed. I want to get rid of this, but wondered if it needs to be removed, or can it just be skimmed over. The porch artex is already peeling off. If it needs to be removed, am I resigned to scraping it off or is...

I have a Hoover Breeze Evo, and need the Small internal hose that connects the brush bar to the Main hose. I cannot seem to find anywhere that supplies this. Mine has a small hole in it, so suction is reduced. Suction is fine when just using the main hose. Model Number TH31 BO02001 Thanks

One of the rads on my system, cools down much quicker than the other ones. When heating on and raising the temp, it's red hot, but once boiler starts to cycle, keeping temperature constant, this rad cools down, the others stay quite hot. The rad in question is the first on the loop. They all...

Just very recently we have been getting like an earthy smell in the bathroom, my wife also says its like an old brussel sprout smell. Thinking back, we have been getting this for a few months, a couple of months back my wife forgot to mention a smell like wet floorboards, that then went away...

I have a hotpoint SA2544CIX. Recently it's taking ages to heat up, over 25mins to get to 180degrees. The fan is working ok, and the top element is heating, as on grill it's gets very red. Any ideas how to check bottom element or any ideas what else it could be.... Don't want to pay £70 for a...

I have some older sliding patio doors. Recently although when shut, pulling up the handle engages the mechanism, when I try to turn the key to lock the door, the key turns halfway then refuses to turn any further, no matter how hard I try. I removed the euro lock, and noticed that the tab that...

My patio door refuses to lock. All hooks engage but the key goes round so far and then no more, no matter how hard I try. It's a sliding door. I have removed the lock and the black thing in the middle turns ok, but the bit that sticks out looks quite worn. As a new lock is an easy fix, does...