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Thanks all, much as I suspected. Sound advice, I will be contacting all of the bodies mentioned.

We've got one. So a year after contacting Whirlpool to get the product made safe, the guy turns up today.....yayy, great customer service Whirlpool. However, the guy hung around about ten minutes (I wasn't at home otherwise I'd have questioned him). He refused to carry out the work because...

When people go underwater in movies, I like to hold my breath to see if I would have been able to survive in that situation.

Hi, We have a Mira shower which has recently started running hot and cold. It's over 15 years old and I suspect is simply dying. We had an identical problem in our last property with an electric shower which was less than a year old and was repaired under warranty but in this case I'm...

I emailed my local authority about whether I needed building regs approval to have my roof replaced and received a very ambiguous "yes but certain builders can self-certify the work" so I'm really none the wiser. The one quote I've had stated that for £50 they would self certify the work...

Thanks John, never heard of them :(

I'm looking at getting somebody to re-roof my property in the next couple of months; it's a mid-terraced 1930's house with a small canopy which will need doing as well. The tiles are the original Brosley(?) and a couple of the nibs are looking flakey so I thought "right, let's get it felted...

Hi, Can anyone identify what these two are? I need to remove one of them and nothing in my limited array of tools will fit. Many thanks!

Thanks for all the responses, much appreciated. FWIW, the Baxi we currently have is at least 29 years old so I'm not sure how much longer it will go on? The quotes I mentioned include a "magniclean" (whatever that is) and the system will be "flushed and inhibited" so I guess it's just...

We have a Baxi Bermuda back boiler that we're having replaced in a couple of months. There's nothing wrong with it apart from the fact that I suspect it's massively inefficient? Anyhow, my wife (bless her) wants to spend my money on a new central heating system. The quote we've had from...

Thanks for the replies

We had a problem about a year ago with our drain which eventually got sorted. Our next door neighbour has just had to call someone out because hers were bunged up (with what the guy said was "cotton wool buds, wet wipes and nappy liners"). Anyone got a quick dummies overview of how drains...

Thanks both, I'll wait until later for the heating to kick in and then perform a gymnastic maneuvour (sp?) to crane my neck under the fire and see what colour the flame is. I've checked all sockets and they seem ok.

Hi all, I have no idea whether this is heating related or not but I'll start here. We have a Baxi Bermuda back boiler in the front room. Last weekend the pilot light went out so I relit it. It went out again later that day so I relit it again and it's been fine since then. There is...

Now I know why my local sparky can command £100 per hour labour for rewiring a socket :roll: Thank you for interpreting. Sooooo.......in 2012 with all this technology around us, I use a hacksaw to eat into the outer rubbery bit whilst at the same time scoring the metally bits underneath...

SWA gland? Speak English. It's a bit of cable that I want to cut to expose the cores. :roll:

Hi all, I'm going to run some new cable down to our garage. The existing cable was in a conduit and buried but we've had the garden dug up and landscaped and I know that the cable has been cut. So I'll redo the lot just to be safe. Firstly, I was looking at some cable at...

Thanks for that, have done the necessary. This might be another silly question - I turned the power off and disconnected the battery before doing any work......did I need to disconnect the battery?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, please bear with me! We have the Optima XM system which has, over the past couple of days, sporadically (two or three occasions) sounded due to a tamper condition. I don't have time to fully investigate until the middle of the week - as a short term fix...

Result! Wessex did the necessary, the guy was here four hours trying all sorts and had worked out exactly where the blockage was - his mate pitched up, gave the soil pipe half a dozen hefty kicks, lifted it out and lo and behold there was the blockage. £102. Absolutely flawless...