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High-quality kitchen cabinets were fitted to my kitchen about 12 years ago. The rear of each cabinet consists of a thin hardboard sheet that appears to fit into slots at each side and one at the bottom (just like the rear of flat-pack bookcases). How can these rear boards be removed? There isn’t...

Can anyone please give a rough cost comparison between an EPDM versus a felt roof (each professionally fitted)? What I would like is something like: EPDM is likely to be around the same price as a felt roof, or twice as much or whatever.

The wood is red cedar. Colourtrend timber oil consists of (quote from their web site): "Colortrend Original Timber Oil contains a blend of superb-grade linseed oil for maximum penetration, long-oil alkyds for durability and pure tung oil for long-lasting colour depth and water repellency". I...

Every 6 months or so, I have treated my wood clad garden office with Coloutrend Natural Glow Timber Oil. It is quite expensive but has kept the office looking good. However, there are few stockists and it is very hard to obtain without a long journey or a long wait for delivery. Can anyone...

The back door to my house is a modern uPVC one that, when fully open, is at right-angles to the house. In windy conditions, it easily blows shut, or is forced back against the door stay. I want to fit a kickdown door holder so that the danger of damage caused by high winds blowing the door is...

I recall seeing a device at a home improvements show about 4 years ago but cannot remember the details. I think that it was said to work by being triggered if there was a steady but slight flow over, say, 15 minutes, the presumption being that most normal uses would either be for less time or...

I would like to fit a device that, when the house is unoccupied, would detect any water leaks and turn off the water. My feeling is that nothing would detect a very slight leak but I would like something more serious to be detected. I would welcome any views as to how effective such devices are...

Who told them - the same people who said that, unless they spent a vast fortune on extra IT staff and new hardware/software, the world would come to an end at the first second of 2000?

That could be a solution for many applications although not mine. I need a wireless smoke alarm because it will be in a garden office where wiring back to the house will not be practical. The office already has a smoke alarm but I doubt that I could hear it unless very close to the office, which...

I haven't been able to find anything suitable yet - it's a pity because the Friedland Response system clearly has the capability for a smoke alarm to be added but one doesn't seem to be available.

I fitted a Friedland Response wireless Type SL (868MHz) intruder alarm system a few months ago and I think that it will do all you want for under £300. You can fit IR detectors in rooms and magnetic detectors on doors and windows. I too have cats and keep them at night or when leaving the house...

Does anyone know of a wireless smoke detector that can be integrated with the Friedland Response type SL (868MHz) intruder alarm system? Friedland announced in 2010 that they were going to market a wireless smoke alarm but seem to have discontinued it and, in any case, it was, I believe, only...

A correction to my previous comment:- apparently, Henderson are still in business but sold the garage door side of it in 2008. I will try to find out the new owner and see if they have a help line.

I understand that, unfortunately, Henderson has gone out of business - if you can point me to a successor help line, that would be very helpful.

I have a Henderson roller garage door which has become very noisy, particularly when going up. It is less than 3 years old and is fairly wide, being for a double garage. The alignment has been checked, there is no apparent damage anywhere, the "claws" that suspend the door are properly fixed and...

That's a good point - I can see how the shoulder could act as a starting point for blockage. I think the pipe cracked because it was being forced away from its natural resting point by washing machine and dishwasher hoses and by too many loose items being stored in its vicinity. I couldn't...

The sink is in a tenants house that I can't get at easily but here's a sketch of the pipework showing the crack and, underneath, how I have at least temporarily stopped the leak by cutting through the pipe so that I can get a compression coupling around it. [/img]

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I hoped that couplings of 37mm would be a a standard item. Must talk to Dragons' Den about this gap in the market! So, a solvent coupler seems to be the best bet but I don't understand why it should be two and a short piece of pipe. What I have now is two ends of the pipe with a gap of about...