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I plan to remove the front panels of a washing machine to get access to the space in between the drum and the external cylinder. The hope is that I will be able to take out a noisy object stuck inside. Any suggestion/advice before I do that?

I meant I removed the pipe at the BOTTOM (not at the BACK) of the drum

removed the filter: clean! removed the pipe that links the back of the drum to the filter: clean! (there was another bra bracket stuck before the plastic ball. the noise is still there though. I cannot see the metal bracket through the holes of the rotating drum though. You say it can...

I think a little bra metal bracket got stuck in the drum of a Bosch 2820. The machine washes fine, but it is very noisy when the spinning starts. It is as if the drum would hit the metal bracket at every spin. I unscrewed the filter and it is clean. I tried to look for the metal...

Absolutely right! thanks Thermo We would like to keep the wood effect and grain, so no dye/colour that is not a wood varnish. The oak (old and new) should be varnished, I am not sure about the newel post as it is a different wood. We wil ltry to varnish and if we will not like the effect...

Need to paint a staircase made of - red pine newel post (stripped and sanded) - Oak handrail (stripped and sanded) - Oak spindles (newly installed). There are several different products in the market to varnish interior wood (all sorts of oil, solvent varnishes, water/acrylic...

Looks like stripped doors change size after the treatment. I ahve not checked the size yet as they are still a bit wet and smell of neutralizer. Will leave in a well heated room for two/.three days before hanging them. Luckily my door stop is a bit bigger than a few mm. let's see. I am...

Thermo, I am still slow......sorry if I understood it correctly paint for walls are silk (more shiny) and matt (less shiny). Then there are solvent-based (old, easy but poor quality and toxic) and acrylic/water based paint (new, non toxic, washable). What is gloss then?

I have just removed some doors and had them stripped. I now need to hang them back. Any suggestions/hints/tips to do this? acchillo

Out curiosity, matt finish on walls is easier to remove than what exactly? I guess walls are painted in silk or in matt (how do I get the difference by looking at a wall?)

I stripped all the paint off the balustrade of my staircase and plan install some spindles to replace some wooden panels After this I will have: - red pine newel post (stripped and sanded) - Oak handrail (stripped and sanded) - Oak spindles (newly installed). My hope is that oak and...

I need to paint some painted wallpapered covered walls. The wallpaper is nice and smooth, but covered in a ugly colour. Do you recommend to paint over or to remove it and start from scratch? acchillo

Consistent answers from the experts! thanks!! Will do a bit more sanding to take the wood down and then start trying to varnish bits of it to see how it looks like. Any suggestion on varnish to use? Anyone of you does it professionally and wants to help? (Location: north of London...

We have just sanded our staircase, doors/architraves and wooden panels on the walls opposite the balustrade and found out that. 1) The newel posts are made of red (canadian?) pine. 2) The panels on the walls of the staircase are red (canadian pine) 3) The handrail is made of oak 4) The...

The REC I called plainly told me to go ahead and break the seal. They would hten come to the property and reseal it. What they did not tell me is 1) How do I prove I have been authorized? 2) How much it will be to reseal the main cable. 3) What is required to get approval? I will use a...

We would like to replace the old fuse box with a modern Wylex consumer unit with RCDs and proper breakers. However there are no switches between the REC main cable and the fuse box. This means that there will be live cable coming into the consumer unit and it would be foolish to try to...