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My dishwashers have never been a problem, but my washing machine, less than three years old, lightly used and (I thought) in excellent nick, recently started flooding the kitchen when it failed to stop filling. I never use appliances at night or when out and luckily noticed and was in time to...

But the overfilling stopped as soon as I cut the power, so I doubt the inlet valve is the issue.

Will check that thanks.

Thanks all. I have a new pressure switch on order (from the excellent Ransom Spares).

To the drum assembly.

Thanks but the drain pump is separate. The tube runs straight into a large moulded component.

Beko WIY84540F, 3 years old. Fine until yesterday when it overfilled halfway through a 2-stage cycle (when rinsing the prewash I think) and flooded the kitchen. The pressure switch seems to operate ok though not yet tested with a multimeter. The pressure hose is clear and intact. However the...

The two 2014-vintage Velux windows in the house I bought in 2019 have pleated blinds. Pretty sure the blinds are Velux originals. They are OK but one has always been tricky to raise and lower - needs careful pressure exactly in the middle - and the other is fine. Windows are identical in size...

OP's pic looks about as good as the mess made by the Virgin Media "engineers" who butchered my last house a few years ago. No problem though: compared to the squiffy internal box they fitted, at least I didn't have to look at it every day. Where do they find these morons?

I installed a full suite (about 10 or 11; I forget) of hardwired interlinked Kidde alarms with non-replaceable batteries in my last house; optical or ionisation plus heat for the kitchen. Several failed within the 10 year warranty period but Kidde were always very good at providing replacements...

Could you not remove the QR mechanism and fit a standard top-fixed seat?

Some time last year I noticed in a B&Q that they now sell, separately, kitchen paint and bathroom paint; there used to be only combined kitchen and bathroom paint. I asked a young lady staffer how the new paints differed from one another. Her reply: "Oh, the kitchen paint is for kitchens and the...

I don't have a recommendation for a specific model I'm afraid, but a few years ago I sourced several second-hand meters from eBay at reasonable prices (these things new are very expensive if considered only for occasional DIY). One was an obviously brand new Robin KMP3075DL insulation and...

I'm just a DIYer but was an office worker for over 40 years and considered becoming a self-employed electrician the last time I was made redundant, a few years ago. It didn't take long to conclude that the costs and the risks argued for a significantly higher return on a day's labour than market...

OddsBodkin you mean Denis Villeneuve's 2021 version, yes? Agree: brilliant.

Sealant gun, that is. It's a Tajima Convoy CNV100SP12, to be exact. Tajima do lots of different models but this is one of the ones that has what they call Auto Flow Stop, which is a posh way of saying that after every squeeze of the trigger, the piston retracts a few millimetres, enough to stop...

Very similar indeed to my own house, also in the Thames Water area (London N14). Pic shows back of drive after I had it repaved in 2019 after buying; I can't remember whether it had raised barriers around the two rainwater gullies before but as you can see it certainly does now. More to the...

Ultion by any chance? I got some cheapo graphite powder from eBay rather than their overpriced stuff.

Not quite...only above the transition altitude, which varies from place to place but is always high enough to be sure that there can be no risk of flying into terrain or a structure upon it.

I had a lot of these in my previous house. I found the best thing was to remove them and fill the opening with a plywood blank, giving me time (days) to work on the windows indoors. I soon found that I needed to - very carefully - remove the glazed part, knock the frame apart and rebuild as...