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I need some expert advice please. I need / feel I need to replace our front door lock. We have a 76mm door with a 90mm (40/50) Euro cylinder lock. My daughter backpack was stolen locally with keys and adress details in. I had a look at screwfix locks. Too much to choose from. What are the big...

I meant to say plug.

I fitted the roof lights with the builder. Under a quickly removed trim we have 4 good size screws that fit the woof light to the rafters. Once they are out you can lift the whole window up. But I agree that people do not go in this way.

When we go into continental europe we simply take a 2-pin adapter to plug in the vaious chargers and my shaver. Unfortunately the 2-pin from the UK does not fit into a 2-pin in switzerland - the wholes are too narrow. I don't know what this discussion and slagging off of the Schuko 2-pin is...

I don't know whether this is still topical being from December. We put some roof lights into a single storey extension and the loft. We went for Fakro. The smaller ones you get as triple glazed units and that makes a difference. For more insultion you can get roller shutters on timers. Re...

Do you actually have a tilt and turn or just a turn? Does it have the correct hinge at the bottom and the mechanism for turning on the frame side of the window? Put some pictures up.

I am just looking at our bay window. A while back I took the wooden panels above the window off. It is easily accessible from the outside. I filled the ceiling space up with rock wool. That made some difference. Our outside wall around the bay is solid wall, with some cladding insulation from...

Just ask round the neighborhood for recommendations.

I want to do the outside sitting room end up. This end has got a wooden bay window with 4 front panes and 2 side panes in. The frame is o.k. and has a decent thickness. I have replaced all the panes before about 12 years ago to ones with a better insulating property. The wall is solid brick and...

One is a TRV, but both valves are freely moving. I checked when I had the radiator off the wall.

Over the years, whenever we renovated a room, I fitted isolation valves to the in- and out flow pipes so I could just take one radiator off without draining the whole system. When this radiator was off I opened the isolation valves and always had water gushing out under pressure. Before I...

One of our radiators keeps getting blocked off. It is one in the sitting room. We have one under the bay window and a smaller one the other end - used to be dinning room and separate sitting room. It is an old system that has had some upgrade work done to it over the years. I had this radiator...

I just wanted to give an update on the tap. NO response at all from Blanco Customer Service. This is disappointing. The cartridge can be removed by removing the mixer handle. It comes off with an Allen screw hidden under the hot / cold symbol. I then disconnected the pipe connections under the...

We replaced a 40 mm old wooden front door with a 80 mm aluminium one. What a difference. It has the look of oak, but you can have it in any form, texture or shape. It is fully insulated, triple glazed and has multiple rebates. It has also got multipoint locking. The sales team showed me a...

I would need some advice for the change of 2 PTFE seals plase. We have the above tap in the kitchen and it has been leaking for a while. I took it apart today to the point of having to remove the cartridge containing chrome body. Looking at the instruction it needs to come off in order to get to...

It will be on the outside. That link might be it.

I don't know if this is the best place to ask about metal bar installation. We had a break-in through a small and accessible window downstairs which is out of sight on the side of the house. I have replaced this window about 10 years ago. I put a double glazed pain into a timber frame after...

We have got similar hinges to yours on our windows and front door- ours have more axis for adjustment though. You should be able to slip the white cap up and get access to a bolt (Allen or Xex) to allow some height adjustment. If you go onto the VeKa website, they promise a 10 warranty. Just...

We have loft windows with electric roller blinds in the loft - ARZ-E (product code). One of the blinds has disappeared into the roller blinds box where the motor winds the blind up into and it does not come out anymore. The motor still works on a timer or if activated manually. Has anyone come...

If the house has a party wall and no gap, the problem is the wall itself. Your floor boards sit on the joists which sit in the party wall and sounds gets straight across. Your little angels need to learn to fly and float. My brother-in-law's neighbour renovated his house and drilled into a...