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Yes, our immersion heater rattles when it's switched on. I guess it's some kind of harmonic vibration of the element inside the tube. Ever seen this before and does it matter? Oh, it was replaced about 6 months ago.

I watched the TV documentary about this last night. Apparently parent dumping is quite common in the USA.

We live in Lancashire and I have a 160 litre cylinder in the attic, which I plumbed in tandem with the 160 litre house cylinder, meaning that water from the header tank passes through the attic cylinder and is pre-heated by the panel before it goes on to the main house cylinder, where the bolier...

As always there's a lack of understanding about the difference between asbestos fibre and cement sheet, which contained asbestos fibre as a reinforcement. H&S paranoia makes people panic.

Spot on, competent DIY is down to having the right frame of mind. The stuff isn't difficult to use and it doesn't take long to acquire the skills of, for example, laying down a consistent line of sealant along a corner if you really want to learn. The essential requirement is mindfulness; do...

As a child I used to mess around with asbestos cement sheet, cutting up bits, sawing and filing them and sticking them together with firebrick cement. 50 years later I'm in rude good health.

Yes that gyrating bloke ad is grotesque. In fact I'm going to email Moneysupermarket.com and tell them. I work in an industry not too far from Alpecin shampoo and I can tell you that the product will contain the tiniest whiff of caffeine, about as much as a teaspoon in a swimming pool, enough...

I maintain my own house to a high level or fussiness. We plan to retire to Scotland in a couple of years and I'm looking forward to telling the buyer's surveyor: "Go ahead.... there's no damp, no woodworm and everything works perfectly!"

If you replace the worktop it will be a good opportunity to re-do that grouting as well.

Oh my giddy aunt. What a mess. I hope you kicked your "partner" in the goolies for that. If I was close by, for a modest charge I would cut off the bottom of the door and fit a replacement strip along at exactly the right height then encourage you to repaint the door. Or I would fit a new door...

It's asbestos cement sheets. Stop worrying.

In your first pic the damage is mostly confined to what I think is the corner fillet that would be removable for fitting a new DG unit, so it might not be too costly to replace that. In the second the dent is clean and even and the suggestion to ask Dents Away isn't a bad one. Alterntively...

We have a small bedroom over the garage and hence outside the main thermal body of the house. It has three outside walls and a sloping roof and was freezing cold because there's no heat rising from below. So we got a pal who's a builder to do a proper job insulating it; they fitted battens on...

Why are you so sure your requirement will increase? Are you having some Syrians to stay?

I bought a pair of cartridges for the bathroom taps, which were dripping. Originally the taps both opened anti-clockwise as per convention but now they open anticlockwise - hot and clockwise - cold, in other words I got a set for a lever tap. I fitted them thinking it wouldn't matter but now I'm...

Definitely make a template and definitely use your local glass merchant. Or consider using clear Perspex sheet and painting the back yourself to whatever colour you prefer.

Er... if 15mm is inadequate how come 10mm works just as well? Our 4 bed house is entirely in 15mm apart from the major "trunks" to and from each floor, which are 22mm and the heating works just dandy.

They are quarter turn. Does than mean a cartridge and I'm doomed? If I take the cartridges to my local plumber's supplier, what's the likelihood that they are some kind of universal cartridge?

Bought from a retailer who disappeared years ago. Now it's dripping and I want to buy new cartridges. Any ideas on the make? ...and how do I disassemble it, please?

Thanks. No, I naively thought all Aga parts were originals and it turns out the valve was not an Aga-accredited part. We are so unhappy with the installer that Mrs RR doesn't want him back in the house so we got a more grown-up local plumber to look at it. He found a pilot jet clogged with dirt...