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Hi I need to replace my outside tap, but the screws wont budge. Have t ried a lot of brute force and WD40. I have not come across this situation before, what's the best way to remove the screws but retain the holes in the wall so I can reuse them when I replace the tap? Drill bit straight...

I have attached the best pic I could take without getting on the roof.

Hi I need to undertake some roof repair, this consists of replacing rotten fascia board, re-applying some render, replacing ridge tiles, replacing some guttering and adding plastic covers to the roof verges. This will cost about 2k. The house was built in the 1970's and a couple of tradesmen...

Hi I have started stripping the wall paper off my parents 1960's house, the wall paper is coming off ok and I suspect its been on the walls for about 30 years. I am keen to prepare the walls for painting, looking at the attached pictures of the walls. Do you think it's best to pay a plasterer...

Hi I have moved into a 70's house and there are alot of wholes in the external render around bricks due to things being hung and cable ties etc. There are also a couple of places where bricks have been replaced and the mortar is grey and dosnt match the red colour of the rest of the brick...

Hi I recently brought a 70's house. There is a coiled up collection of cable on the side of the house which looks ugly. It runs across the top of the external side of the house from a telephone mast in the street. The cable then splits off into my attic. Whay can I do to make this look less...

There is no water tank but old cold water tank remains in loft unused. I dont know if there is a pump i just assumed there was one. With combi's you dnt normally have one? My boilet is a combi Baxter one. The noise i heard when the shower was on sounded like a pump so I assumed I had one, but...

Hi We have recently moved house and I am now an owner of a bathroom shower bar, with a pump in wall fitted behind it. I replaced the shower head as the previous was useless, since doing so the temperature of the water in the shower only goes luke warm. There is lots of pressure from the water...

Hi I have recently moved into a 1970's house and there 100m loft insulation between the joists. I want to increase the insulation but also board the loft so can use it for storage. In my previous house chipboard planks were screwed to the joists on top of the insulation, but the insulation...

Hi Last year I sanded down and painted my parents bathroom, the bathroom has an extractor fan which is sufficient. They do not have central heating. Its about 12 months and the paint I applied is starting to flake off. On top of that there looks t be a stain in the corner of the wall and...

Hi I had a new bathtub and mixer tap fitted 3/4 months during the summer. Recently there has been times where by the hot tap turns a little and then stops, its not stiff just won't turn any further. If I go back to if an hour later it turns fine, not sure if's related to water...

Hi I have recently had some plastering done. As part of this some patches were plastered to save having to do all the walls, because it's an awkward and large room etc. I have painted these areas with two thinned down half water/half paint coats and most of the patches are fine. How...

Hi Looking for some advice please. About 18 months I had my entire bedroom re-skimmed. The plastere did a good job, he taped the cracks and one crack above the door that had always been there in past from door frame movement, this crack as not returned since. :D We are now on the...

Can you tellme how to earth the sink? I have no idea?

Thanks for the post, so its earthed correctly as it is? I dont need to reconnect up the spare cable to the sink?

Hi I have just replaced my stainless steel kitchen sink, under the sink I have reattached two green and yellow cables. One between the hot and cold copper pipes and the other looks as though goes somewhere behind the wall. There is also a third loose yellow and green lead that wasn't...

Hi I have just replaced my stainless steel kitchen sink, under the sink I have reattached two green and yellow cables. One between the hot and cold copper pipes and the other looks as though goes somewhere behind the wall. There is also a third loose yellow and green lead that wasn't...

Hi I live in a 2 bed house with a convential central heating system, i.e cold tank in loft, hot tank and 20 year old Baxi boiler. My controls allow me to set the heating to come on at specific times in day, but dont allow a central temperature setting. Basically no central thermostat...