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Hi all, I've moved in to a house that needs the fence weatherproofing/painting. It's clearly not been done in a while but is still more than good enough to clean and repaint/weatherproof. I'd like some advice on a few points please: 1) See the attached photo of the fence (with a bit of the...

Thanks for the response @terryplumb I'll wait for my father in law to visit before trying that. What am I looking to achieve as a result of this check? Just so I know if I'm successful :)

@conny @Brigadier Ok, wow. I removed the door handles by unscrewing the three screws on the front (got a feeling they should maybe be on the inside?) and that revealed that the cylinder were kept in place by a combination of sealant (on the inside) and tape. No wonder there was some give but...

Thanks @Dave77. How do I remove the trim. Is it just the screws around the area that I've photographed?

@conny @Brigadier Thanks all. I have been moving the key all over the place to try and get the cam to line up but it's just not budging. I can feel a small amount of give, which doesn't exist when the screw is in place so I assume I'm close. By comparison, when I tried doing exactly the same...

Hi all, I'm going to replace the six cylinder locks around my house and garden house with keyed alike cylinder locks. I just bought my first pair to try them on the garden house double doors but I can't seem to remove the existing cylinder lock. See the attached photos. I've watched a couple...

Hi, oldbuffer. Sorry for taking up your time on this but I still can't get a plumber. Is there anyway of turning the water supply off just to the bath from looking at the above photos? Or if not then the whole bathroom. I'll only switch the supply back on when the kids get a bath. The...

Thanks foxhole and apologies for taking so long to notice your message. I was hoping not to as it's not actually that easy to get to in the sink that I want to unblock. I'm hoping that a plumber is going to come and change the taps anyway so I might wait until then.

Hi all, My house have the sink plug types shown in the attached photos. I have a couple of blocked sink drains that Mr Muscle or a plunger hasn't resolved so I purchased a drain snake from Amazon. However, upon receiving it I realised that the head of the snake is too large to fit down my...

@oldbuffer I've yet to action this and getting a plumber is proving difficult. I'm now certain that the leak is the hot water and as such any heat that comes solar panels that feed it will be getting lost. Do you know if there is a way of switching off the feed from the solar panels? That way...

Thanks for your resojsoeThat's exactly what is happening. Water is coming out of either the spout or shower head depending on whether the middle knob is switched to either. It constantly runs out of it 24/7. How would I change the valves without turning the bath on its side? Thanks so much...

Thanks for your response. That's exactly what is happening. Water is coming out of either the spout or shower head depending on whether the middle knob is switched to either. It constantly runs out of it 24/7. How would I change the valves without turning the bath on its side?

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and a DIY newbie so apologies if I'm not posting correctly. We've just purchased our first house and we moved in to a leaking bath tap. The leak happens with either the tap (correctly terminology?) or shower outlet and is dependant on whether the mixer part is...