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Evening all, I've spent the last couple of days removing wallpaper in our hallway as I'm trying to get the place smartened up so that we can put our house on the market and the hallway is the last room to do in the house and the wallpaper had been removed in patches through various...

That's brilliant thanks guys! The guy who installed them makes out he's one of the best joiners in the area, but the hotel I work for got him in to do a load of work when we were renovating part of the hotel and quite frankly it's just shoddy. Some of the stuff he did is really good, but it's...

Evening all, Here's one I don't seem to be able to figure out. A couple of doors I have have always been a little awkward to lock because the keeps weren't lined up properly so you always have to wiggle the door a bit to actually lock them. Never really used the locks on them until now and...

I work in a hotel with a large wedding party in tonight and that was the drainage from the bar so it absolutely had to be up and running by close of play today so I had no choice but to call an engineer if I didn't have it fixed by lunchtime.

No thin tube. It was just a pressure switch at the bottom of the actual pump unit. The microswitch had failed inside. All I did was clean it up and lift it out to inspect. I didn't want to break the seals and open it up without further knowledge so I contacted a Sani-flo engineer who turned...

I've got a Sanivite 3 which is less than 1 year old, but after a phase failure yesterday it has stopped pumping. I've dismantled the unit and cleaned everything, checked the fuse in the spur and that's fine, but I cannot get it to do anything. Having removed the pump unit from inside the...

I think the only reason he wants digital ones is because we've found the dials broken on a couple of stats before so he wants an up button and a down button and that's it. You wouldn't believe how rough some people are with these things. I'll look into those though, thanks.

Afternoon all, My boss has asked me to look into changing all the room thermostats in the bedrooms in our hotel. Currently they have a dial stat with a PIR occupancy sensor on them and the owner wants rid of them. A couple of them have minor damage to them and to replace them with the...

Hi Chaps and thanks for the advice so far. The ground floor is solid concrete so shouldn't be coming through the floor. From what you're saying it sounds to me like it could be coming through where the support timbers for the stairs go into the wall because their staircase is on the other...

Evening all and hope you all had a nice time over the last couple of days. We've been up to stay at my inlaws since the day before Xmas eve and just returned this morning as my family came to visit us today. When we arrive home this morning, our hallway was stinking of stale smoke. Bearing...

It's amazing what changing door hook to cabin hook brings up on Google. Ta very much!

Has anyone seen these door hooks for sale anywhere? I've asked two local hardware shops and never get a straight answer out of them. I've asked the consultant engineer who has most of the contacts from the purchases made during the construction of the hotel but he can't find anything about...

I need to make something to replace the broken part on my son's cot/bed. I literally changed it from a cot into a bed last weekend and as I was doing it I was concerned about how flimsy the base of the bed is and how little support it has but I followed the instructions and did it as it said...

We've got these towel heaters throughout our hotel and a couple of them randomly started leaking oil out of the bottom of them. When I had a look at them it was as if someone had been twisting the element control unit on the bottom of them and they were loose. To stop any further leaking I...

Hi all, We had our new boiler installed about 6 months ago now. When we had it done, we had the plumbers do a powerflush and when the system was refilled, an inhibitor was added. My wife mentioned to me the other day that the rad in our bathroom was hot at the top but cold at the bottom. I...

I've got 5 x 24V Uponor actuators that I'm trying to sell since whoever ordered them purchased the 24V ones by accident and we needed the 240V ones and they've been sitting around too long to send back. Anyway I've got somebody who's interested in buying them but they're asking if they'd be...

BAS the guy is constantly trying to save money and seems to spend a fortune on trivial stuff like having a load of extra newspapers around the hotel, entertaining his own personal guests at large dinners that he pays thousands for and having expensive soaps and shower gels in the rooms, but when...