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We have a Hotpoint FDW60 dishwasher, only 2-3 years old. Today it was on and I nipped to the shops for 10 minutes, when I came back there was water coming from under the dishwasher and the whole of the downstairs plug sockets had tripped. I tried replacing the fuse in the dishwasher, plugged it...

Hi, I am going to try balancing our radiators as a couple of them in the house are cold - they have a hot flow pipe and a cold return pipe. Question is - how do I remove the plastic cap that covers the lockshield valve as it just spins? Thanks in advance.

We have a problem where everything in the top tray was still dirty at the end of the cycle. I noticed that a seal had gone on this big nut on the back wall of the dishwasher, I think this supplies the water into the arm of the top rotor blade. I have ordered a new seal. The thing that is...

This is very strange - after not having to top the boiler up for the past 6 weeks, tonight I noticed that the radiators upstairs were lukewarm whilst the ones downstairs were hot, so I bled the ones upstairs, 4 in total, and whilst bleeding the last one, as the air was coming out it suddenly...

Thanks. The other odd thing was the other day I noticed the boiler was dripping from underneath. Not a great deal but it was dripping. This may have been following the test we did with the engineer where we isolated the flow and return valves - when he went to open one of them back up he had...

Just an update on this. We continued to have to refill the boiler literally every hour. Then all of a sudden after about 10 days of doing this it would not need refilling for about 4 hours. This concerned me at first because I had visions of great lakes of water under the floor and the reason...

Thanks bengasman. We have done the sandwich bag test - nothing. Is the white pipe the consender discharge? If so then yes we do get this chucking out about a tea cup full a day outside (I think this is normal?). No evidence of any deposits under the boiler itself however. Although when the...

Thanks. I just don't understand it then. We must have re-filled the system completely at least 10 times a day for the past 6 days - that's a heck of a lot of water - and I just don't understand where it is all going! It must be a leak under the floor I guess but as mentioned an initial look...

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Thanks bengasman. "Isolating the boiler and flow and return valve" - can you confirm from looking at my picture that this is shutting the valves I have circled, (numbers 1 and 5)? Thanks again.

Many thanks for your reply dangermouse. If this was the case is it easily possible to see evidence of this - the condensate discharge currently outputs approx a tea-cup full of water each day which I am told is normal? Even if it were a leak from the boiler I can't see where all the water...

Earlier this week one morning we got up to no heating and on checking the water pressure on the boiler it was at 0. We opened the taps to refill it up to approx 1.2 but within an hour it had all gone again. An engineer came out and said he had cleared some gunk out of the system which may have...

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A friend of mine recently installed new Kitchen worktops and kitchen sink for us. It's not his normal line of work but he's pretty handy and did a good job on his own kitchen. He's done us a good job but left us to seal the gaps between the worktops and the walls which is fine. I then...

Thanks for that Space Cat. Yes I wondered if it was connected to the mains so tried what you suggested - taking the battery out, putting it back on and pressing the test button - and it did sound ok. No more beeps for about an hour now. It's probably waiting until the middle of the night again.

This is very strange. About 10 months ago we had some building work done and 2 new mains smoke alarms installed. At 5am today one of them started beeping, I got up and took it down, it had a 9v backup battery in it, a Duracell. Strange I thought, that it had run out already. This evening the...

We have a Bosch iron, only had it about a year, the light comes out but the plate does not heat up. Does anyone know why this is likely to be and would I be able to fix it myself? There appears to be one screw in the appliance with a sort of strange heaxagonal shaped head that makes it obviously...

Hi there, we are having a range cooker delivered and it is planned to go under some kitchen cabinets which I have raised up on the wall sufficiently high enough to allow the glass lid of the hob to go up. However a colleague has advised there is a minimum height otherwise the bloke coming to...

Thanks Static, appreciated.