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Don't laugh but do you think I could get away with this cheap sealant? http://www.poundland.co.uk/diy-time-with-tommy-walsh/adhesives/tw-50ml-wht-silicone-bath-shwr I'm not going to be able to get a normal big tube of the stuff up in the gap so this little tube will do it but it's from...

Haha I'm glad someone appreciated that.

Am I right in thinking the adjustable one will have longer reach and need less clearance around the nut?

I thought the green was from years of water drips down the pipe turning into mould lol! I will buy some cheap anti-mould silicone then and as the space is limited i'll wear rubber gloves and smudge it all under there with my finger. Does it matter if I use white or clear sealant? Are these...

Hi all, This issue^ only occurs when water gets splashed or when I'm cleaning around the taps. Water gets down the gap, drips down the pipes, and onto the concrete floor under the bath. I literally mean just a few drips, but I still want to fix this before I put the side panel back on (had it...

I went in 3 different plumbers merchants and finally found somewhere with the correct size fibre washers. And he gave them to me for free! This bloke was the only person out of all the shops I went in that actually knew what he was talking about too. The place was called Plumbase. I wish...

By the way, this is a Triton shower, if that helps.

Hi all, I've finally got round to looking at the drip on my shower. It didn't drip loads, there was always just 1 drip hanging from 1 of the main fixing bolts and was turning it green. I've taken it all apart thinking just some PTFE tape would sort it (will do this aswell anyway), but...

This one's a combi boiler, and I'm certain once upon a time, a massive water tank lived below where this vent is. I suppose I could just look outside and see if the hole even leads out there? There does feel like a slight draught from the hole but nothing major.

It is an outside wall yeah. The boiler is only 2 years old. I bought this place last year. Had the boiler serviced last year too. So I'd hope it passed all ventilation tests :(

Thanks for the reply. I knew it didn't look right! The only thing in this room is the boiler itself. It's more of a walk in cupboard at the top of my stairs. Measures about 1.5metre by 2metre. I keep my shoes in there, a few coats, a ladder, tools, etc. Oh and there's no door on the...

Been doing some general dusting and cleaning today. In the room where my boiler is, there's a plastic screw on vent on the wall, noticed a load of dirty old dust stuck on the plastic. Unscrewed the vent to clean and found this loose circular brick that I can't remove because there's a ledge...

Disaster averted!! I've bought you all a round of virtual pints for the help cheers. My mate asked me if I could atleast look at swapping the aerial port in the living room aswell, I unscrewed it, saw it was all rusty and full of concrete and not enough slack on the cable and said to my...

They wobbled very slightly on the wall though if I didn't REALLY tighten them lol.

Luckily it's wooden floors in the main dining area and living room where they smoked most. The place doesn't smell too badly actually since all the furnitures been stripped out and giving to charitys etc. You are right though nobody's going to turn the property down because of a few yellow...

I was thinking about washing up liquid but I thought the bottom would just slip off even more then as I'm pulling it round lol. What a nightmare, I'll give it another go tonight but I don't know how 2 grown men are gonna get 4 arms in and around the opening.

We've tried all sorts of chemicals on the white freezer and it's not shifting so I can't see it sorting the plug sockets. Wish I had taken a photo of how bad it looks. One of the switches we was gonna replace too was a FUSE switch next to a fire place, I looked behind the switch and there...

By the way I'm just an amateur DIYer that was feeling overly confident from doing a few good things to my own flat.

Well I just really feel like I'm in over my head here and I feel really bad for it because both of my mates parent's have died over the past year and he's got this big old house that he now needs to clean up and sell and I offered to help and I've just bloody made a right pigs ear of it. Wish...

OK I understand, I thought that would be the case. The switch I'm putting in is plastic like the original switch. Do you think I'm doing the right thing bailing out of doing the wall sockets? Going by how confused I've got over doing 1 light switch haha!