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Hi. I've just moved into a new house and the kitchen tap has two levers which open by pulling down by 90 degrees closed to open. Problem is the cold side is "loose" and just "drops" to fully on, ie won't hold itself between the range to allow different water flows - the other side is fine...

Thanks for the replies. No house only new to me, oven about 4 years old.

One month in a new house and oven every now and again trips the RCD in the consumer unit (the circuit breaker, if that's the correct word, for the circuit is unaffected). I've read this may be due to an "earth leakage fault" (which in turn could be due to a faulty element). The oven (AEG)...

The cable runs along the garage wall, I followed it all the way along the wall to the circuit breaker next to the consumer unit. Not buried at any point Is this wrong??

Makes complete sense, thanks for the replies.

Just moved house and have a socket in garage labelled "Not RCD protected for fridge/freezer use only". Have traced the wire back and sure enough it does not lead back to the main consumer unit but a seperate "trip switch" next to it. Is this common, wiring seems quite modern? Why would this...

I had exactly the same last year with EON's version of boiler cover. I put the money aside and let a local guy do the servicing this year. Can't guarantee he'd be out same day to a breakdown, but I doubt it would be much worse than the 7 day wait I had for EON (who also promise much more than...

We have a conventional boiler (ideal mexico RS60) with gravity hot water. The last couple of years we've noticed we get woken by the central heating coming on. It's just a humming really not a loud noise at all, we only really notice it in the quiet mornings but it tends to wake us/the kids...

Thanks for all your help and advice, it's much appreciated. Well the new washing machine hose is a so called "pex" hose which is meant to be a bit stiffer than the usual hoses (I spent quite some cash and bought an "ISE 10" washer, if anyone's heard about them). The noise does seem to come...

The shock dissipates in the hose then? I'll have a read about a "shock arrestor". It sounds as though the noise comes from under the bathroom floor.

I have an ideal mexico floorstanding boiler. It's a trusted friend requiring only thermocouples (and a new gas valve last year). Now I've always had boiler cover (BG first, then EON) - but I've decided to self insure and have an independent coming in a couple of weeks to service boiler and gas...

For ages I've had a single abrupt knock when the washer closes off after letting in cold water or if the cold tap is closed off suddenly in the downstairs bathroom (the washer is in a cupboard adjacent to this bathroom and the water supply is tee'd off from under the sink). My stop tap is in...

Thanks, much appreciated. There are screw holes but I see why they weren't used - the position of the pipes and the dimensions of the cloakroom would seem to make it impossible to get the screws in. I've chipped off the gunk between basin and pedestal and the stuff on the floor - both have a...

Hi, Please be gentle with a novice. Small leak at back of the basin in my small cloakroom. Traced to connection of waste pipe to screw that protrudes from basin if that makes sense to everyone. Couldn't get to it to fix due to the dimensions of my cloakroom so had to remove the porcelain...

Thanks, really helpful. Sorry for being a numpty - can you buy longer than normal bits to drill all the way through the breeze block? I'm trying to work out the logistics of it. Presume if I can get a drill bit long enough to go through the whole block I just drill outside to in. and then...

Hi, I'm going to get a tumble dryer and put it in the garage. It's a fairly well ventilated garage anway but no windows to put the hose through. Advice seems to be vent properly by drilling through wall. Garage is breeze block and looks like ony one block where I want to vent through. Do I...

Interesting. Where does this usually live? The hob is fixed into the worksurface with the oven built in underneath. Who would fix this if I can't? Gas fitter? Electrician? (New hob? They don't seem very expensive looking online)