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My Kitchen mixer tap has been dripping for a while now, so I thought I would remove both brass screw-in glands to check the washers in each and give the glands a clean at the same time. I did this and both glands looked in reasonable condition. I also checked both while I had them removed, to...

When I flush my toilet, there is a loud humming noise from what I initially thought was coming from inside the cistern. I lifted the cistern lid off and when the toilet is re-filling with water, the noise is at its loudest when I touch (I think it’s called) the side entryfill valve. You can also...

I would like to install a roof window (Velux or Keylite type). I have read in one of Keylite’s brochure’s that in order to comply with means of escape in the event of a fire, the maximum dimension from the top of the existing ceiling joists in what is currently my loft, to the lowest point on...

I am about to use Soudal's Trade Roof & Gutter Sealant. I have used this product previously albeit a good while ago and from memory it was very sticky and it was difficult to smooth-off once I had applied it. On checking the back of the tube (which I didn't look at last time I used it...

How do I adjust the fill level on my cistern? I need to reduce the amount of water that's coming into the cistern after a flush as it's constantly trickling into the WC pan. See pictures of the insise of the cistern below:

The existing waste pipework from my bath and wash hand basin are all in solvent weld and need replacing. The bath is 40mm and the wash hand basin is 32mm. Both connect separately into the 110mm soil pipe via strap boss connectors. I would prefer to use push fit instead of solvent weld as I...

Most of my PVC windows are in relatively good condition but some of the black seals on some of the opening lights are starting to perish, become brittle and fall away. Not on the window that I have photographed below. It was just the easiest window that I could photograph to use to try to show...

I’m getting an F1 Low Water Pressure Fault Code on my Ideal Logic Combi 24 boiler. I have checked the pressure gauge and it is at 1.3 bar. I have tried resetting the boiler (see below) but each time I do, I still get the F1 fault code. Even though the pressure gauge was showing 1.3 bar, I...

My home security alarm is working fine other than the sounder doesn’t sound! If I activate the alarm, I hear it inside the house but there is no sound outside from the sounder. I don’t know what make the sounder is but I have attached an image of it below. It's a wired system and I can see a...

I need to repair the damaged/missing sections of the sandstone window cills to the bay window shown. The cills have unfortunately not been maintained by the previous owner and have deteriorated to the extent that they have crumbled and fallen away in places :( I was thinking of doing the...

I am looking to have a 2 gang light switch fitted on my Landing close to my Bathroom which is towards the rear of my house. One of the switches will turn the Bathroom light on and off and the other will turn the Landing light on and off. There will also be another light switch outside the...

Water is filling-up too high in the cistern and is then running into the overflow pipe on the flush valve. I assume I need to make an adjustment on the inlet valve to cut-off the water supply before it gets too high in the cistern but how do I do it?

I have a Main Combi 24 which was working fine up until a couple of days ago when I noticed that the pressure gauge reading had dropped to zero! I checked for leaks and there were none that I could see. I also checked the PRV outside and it was bone dry. I topped the system up to 1.5 bar via the...

I have a Vaillant ecoTEC pro 28. The house that it is in has undergone some recent refurbishment. The boiler was tested before the work started and was working fine. The only thing that is different now is that the original room thermostat is no longer present as it was damaged during the work...

I have solid floor in the Kitchen/Diner in a 1900's terrace house which I am refurbishing. The existing floor is out of level, sloping by about 45mm over its length from front to back. The floor had timber floorboards laid directly onto the original concrete and the floorboards have now been...

I am having a complete new rewire carried-out in a residential property. Regarding the installation of the new sockets, I have two questions: i) is it compliant to have any of the new sockets on a radial circuit fed from the board rather than on a ring main and ii) is it compliant to have any...

I have an AEG 79852G Gas Hob which is shown below In the off position, all indicator lights above the control knobs should switch off however, you might just be able to see from the photo that the 2nd one from the right hand side does not? I have removed the control knobs and the...

I have a Worcester 240 combi boiler and was recently having problems with my hot water temperature being 'cooler' than it used to be. I read up (mainly on here) and the suggestion seemed to be that if my central heating flow pipe was heating-up with the heating off when the hot water was run...

I have a Moffat gas hob. It lights ok and all 4 burners work as they should when they are switched on full, but when the burners are lowered, the flame goes out. I have noticed if you turn the burners down really slowly, they will reduce the flame and it does stay lit but if you turn them down...

I have just had some ribbed entrance matting fitted in my porch. It's not an inlaid matwell type product, it is laid directly on top of the concrete floor and is like a thick ribbed carpet (for want of a better phrase), which I believe is supposed to 'scrape' the dirt off the bottom of your...