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Here's a video. The issue all seems to be on the vertical section coming off the small sink, which is fractionally too long. I've had it all apart and there's no scope to shorten anything. It feels like there ought to be an option for a single flexible coupling to go between the sink and the...

The is under our kitchen sink, the small sink next to the big one. The previous owner had connected the sink to the drain with the bits in the second photo, which are too long and force the drain pipe down at an angle and leave the rest of the waste pipes cocked and occasionally leaking. To my...

OK, will do. Just seems *too* comprehensively blocked for it to have happened unintentionally.

We've been living here for about 8 months and have no drainage issues that I'm aware of, but I've only just noticed that this drain underneath a rain gutter is completely and, apparently, deliberately blocked with soil and stones (grating removed by me). Presumably the idea is that rainwater...

Aha! I think this is what I want, as it's a bit lower-profile - I like the idea of the device cables plugging in vertically rather than sticking out horizontally. Cheers!

I need to install 3 Ethernet ports in a room where I can't chase into the wall, I have to screw to the wall. I can find plenty of 3-port front plates but they all seem intended for chasing, I can't seem to find any matching plastic back boxes for them. Is there anywhere that sells what I want...

That's kind of an answer to a different question, though. Are washing machine bearings special and unobtanium once the manufacturer stops selling spares for a given model, or are they just ordinary bearings that can be matched to something appropriate at a bearing supply shop?

We have a 10-year-old Bosch washing machine that has been very reliable, only needing replacement brushes about two years ago. I'm thinking about the bearings being the next thing to fail, and E-Spares have complete kits with the shaft seals for our model number machine for £84. How specialist...

Yep, that's it exactly - thanks :) I've actually built my own smoke machine and was looking for the compressor to actually blow the smoke. After experimentation I found a Halfords bike pump with buit-in PSI gauge actually worked pretty well - not completely silent in operation, but virtually...

I'm after a small portable compressor that allows you to set the pressure you want it to maintain (down to 2psi for finding vacuum leaks in emissions systems), and which will work silently (when it's not refilling the tank). What's the entry level price for something like that? I've been using a...

Sorry, it's not clear what your "dunno" actually refers to. Are you saying you don't know if those parts are even available in the UK? Or if they're called something different over here?

I'm looking for a closet/toilet flange with test cap and a 4" cleanout adapter with plug (it's to build a smoke machine). They seem to be cheaply and easily available in the USA, but over here, just looking online, I can only find the cleanout adapter for about £22 on Amazon, and only with a...

lf it does break, will any Screwfix-style isolation valve of the correct size work in there?

Downstairs toilet flush has broken, and looking at the water input pipe, there's this metal connector with the screw on the side. Is that screw the means of shutting off the water? The upstairs toilets have different, plastic shutoff valves. There's nothing else accessible; the rest of the...

The cold taps in our upstairs and downstairs bathrooms have seized up over about 5 years. 5 years ago, they were similarly seized, so we called a plumber and he fixed them in about 10 minutes - I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention, but all he seemed to do was pop the top cap off the tap...

I'm sure that I once read somewhere that dishwashers typically have a small tube round the back (not the big chunky drain tube) that can be blown into manually to clear a pressure differential issue that's causing the appliance to stop and flash an error message during a wash cycle. Is that...

I've just repaired our 8-year-old Bosch washing machine thanks to YouTube videos that happened to cover the same fault on the same machine. But is it really still a waste of time trying to obtain a proper repair manual if you're a DIYer?

The large central burner on our Kenwood oven has ended up with a load of cooking oil in it. We've soaked up most of it, but it could obviously do with a more thorough clean. Can I just remove those three screws and lift it out, or will I be disturbing seals that will need to be replaced with new?

Yeah, I already saw that site. Unfortunately there's no definitive information available about my specific error - depending on which site you look at it could be a mainboard fault or a circulating pump fault or a pressure switch fault. The service manual would be the only way to be sure, but of...

When you start a cycle it will run normally for about 2 minutes, then you'll hear the gurgling noise from the drain (totally normal for when the unit is draining) and immediately the error code indication is displayed. It will then run something (the pump?) for another few minutes and then stop...