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Thank you Fillyboy for your reply. Tgat sounds more encouraging so I will have a go at it today. Cheers, Keith

Thanks RandomGrinch for your reply. I attach a photo of the two hinges waiting to be fitted, one open, the other closed, front side and rear side. Hope helpful. Keith

Morning all. I need to replace door hinges on my integrated Neff fridge, as one of them has broken. I have sourced the correct replacement hinges and now want to fit them. Will I need to remove the fridge from its housing to do this or can I do this with the fridge in situ. The fridge is not at...

Hi All, I have fired up my central heating system for the first time in a few months to find that all my radiators are working fine, except one in my upstairs bathroom. The valve knobs are turned fully open (picture attached) but radiator stone cold. I tried a few things but to no avail. The...

Hi peeps, I’m considering using Toupret Murex to fill a crack in pebbledash rendering but I’m wondering if it is available in any colours other than white. Anyone have any experience of this product ? Thanks in anticipation, Keith

Hi peeps, looking for some advice. I have a small (very old) conservatory on the back of my house, the walls of which are externally covered by pebbledash. I have just noticed a narrow crack in the pebbledash where it appears to be lifting. I think it may be due to a gutter corner joint that...

Hi peeps, I’m wanting to replace an existing plastic single light switch with a brushed chrome one. The new switch has two parts: the clip on outer face plate (didn’t want screws showing) and the part that you wire up to and fix to the back box for the face plate to clip on to, if you get my...

Hi peeps, I’m sure this question has been asked a thousand times before but I’m still a bit unsure about it. I want to (ceramic) tile above a kitchen worktop where a small section of the wall has been plaster-boarded. Question is, which side of plasterboard is best for tiling onto. The boards I...

Hello peeps, I’m about to embark on cutting a hole in a worktop for a ceramic hob. According to hob manual, external dimensions are 600 x 510 (mm) and the hole dimensions are 560+4+1 and 490+4+1, respectively. I find this a tad confusing and I’m not sure why it doesn’t just say 565 x 495 for...

Hi peeps, I’m wanting to paint some kitchen units that are currently unpainted solid pine with a slight sheen to them. Having thoroughly cleaned the surfaces and sanded them down with medium/coarse sandpaper to provide a key and removed all dust, I’m finding that the primer/undercoat (Dulux...

Thanks John for your reply. I trying to work round it - all a bit of a pain but, as you say, it’d be a disproportionate amount of time, effort and money to get a plumber for such a small adjustment. I’ll find another way. Keith

Hi peeps, I seem to have two stop cocks on the cold water main coming into kitchen by the sink. One is above the other and, from what I can tell, the lower one is older and kept open all the time with the upper being used to turn the water on/off as need be. The lower one is connected to the...

Thank you Terry.

Hi Stem, the new oven is a Smeg single oven, the old one was a Stoves double oven. I attach a photo of the wires and à notice from the new Smeg oven. Keith

Hello, just to say, thanks for your advice. Just one last question: when you say to remove the old cables and just connect the new oven and hob to the switch.... what about the 13amp wiring that comes with the new oven going directly to the 40amp switch. Don’t I need to fuse it at 13amp somehow...

Did you mean the electrical installation or the physical installation - or both ?

Here are some more photos to do with wiring hob (it has four burners but not induction). Hope helpful.

When I say “switch box” I mean like a circuit breaker switch which is located in one of the base units next along from the oven housing. I believe the mains 40amp cabling runs into it from the consumer unit and then the two old appliances were in turn connected to that via two 40amp cables, one...

How can I delete my posts on this forum ? Doesn’t seem to be an option. I’m trying to remove a thread which may duplicate/overlap another if my posts and appears to be causing confusion for some people.

Thanks for your reply Taylor. It wasn’t t my intention to confuse but I thought it might be easier to separate the two and treat them as separate appliances. I do find that sometimes with these forums, people often answer questions you didn’t ask rather than the ones you did, if you get my...