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If your sockets are in the skirting board they are very old and at risk of damage. Wiring this old almost always need a full rewire. It's cheaper than trying to bring the old stuff up to standard. If it was built or rewired after 1970's it can usually be brought up to standard without a full...

I consulted a qualified gass fitter and replaced the stop valve with a gas compression fitting. It didn't help that it was a 15mm unmarked copper pipe.

You need a motor engineers report and help from trading standards. Ask trading standards if the dealer has any past history. Work out how much you can afford to peruse this case. How much it would cost to fix this problem using dealer parts and how much using used parts from a breaker such...

How old is your house? Aluminium wiring was used around 1960-70 when copper prices went extremely high. How high off the floor are your sockets? Are any in the skirting board?

Low insulation is a fault that will occur in a damp or dirty socket. The fault could be just 1cm long in one place. Obvious place to look is sockets near the back of the washing machine or on damp single skin walls or on wet walls where the guttering is overflowing. This obviously needs...

I had a running water sound all through the house to I tried to devise the house in two and prove which part of the house was leaking. So water off, sound stopped. I went into the small triangular loft round the top of out bungalow with a stop valve and a pipe cutter. I crawled in commando...

I has a new WB boiler. 3-4 months later it varied the shower temp. I called back the installation team. It turned out to be crud in a very old regulator in the gas meter box. Gas networks turned up and first worts were is it a woucester ? Gas starvation seams to be a regular issue...

Eddie, you could make a bolster out of wood or polymorph.

I would agree. I had mine installed 12 months ago. Some crud travelled up the pipe and partially blocked the regulator in the gas meter box. I had the installer out who called gas networks. A new regulator was fitted and adjusted. Problem fixed Bosh-Wooster 30. Installed on 30mm gas pipe...

I would cut a small hole in the ceiling to find out what is there (Plasterboard saw £3 wilkinsons) If there is no insulation I would remove the ceiling measure the depth and fill between the rafters with kingspan or celotex then fit plaster boards then get someone in to skim the ceilings...