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Ah, I see. Yes, I think I can fashion some home made wedges to do the trick. Thanks.

Hello, I've got an assembled Draper bench drill which I need to take apart to transport, so I've followed the assembly instructions in reverse and am now left with a chuck which I cannot get out of the housing. When fitting it, the book says knock in into place with a soft faced hammer, so...

For some time now our SIME combi boiler will not give hot water to the taps unless the central heating is switched on. Funny how you get used to working around things, but now we have child number 2, i want this fixed. Any suggestions? Model is Super 102 De Lux. When heating is on, taps do get...

My newly refurbed kitchen is cold as we don't have central heating down that end of the house and it's on the side return external wall. Extending the central hearing isn't an option yet, so I need an electric alternative. I've considered a plinth fan heater to use when we are using the kitchen...

I'm ripping out my old kitchen (small, simple layout) replacing with new carcasses, fronts, work tops etc. I'm also exchanging gas oven and hob for halogen and electric oven, and want to move some wall sockets, so the refit needs two not massive jobs that I'm not comfortable doing. Question is...

Just got hold of an absolute bargain, 3.5 metres square of interlocking floating acacia wooden floor tiles, designed for patios etc, but now destined for my laundry/utility room. Question is, what oil to finish it with? I don't particularly want to varnish, but give it an impregnation of some...

Perfect, thanks, now I know its called a hook keep.

Hello all, forgive my ignorance on this one All our external upvc doors have locking lever things which engage into corresponding holes in the frame when you lift up the handle and dead lock the door. Well, each of these holes which the levers swing into have a screwed-in-place surround made...

I've assembled quite a nice arrangement of standard round black drainpipe bits to take water off a flat roof via guttering and down pipes, into another gulley, round the corner, down another drop etc....into the patio drain which works beautifully, but suffers from drippage where the various...

Fab, sounds like a good starting point. Do you have the model number please I could look into?

Hmm. Lets see what I can find.

Does such a thing exist? I want to replace our horrid New World gas oven box with a new electric one and simply run it off the mains. Are there any particular makes that specialize or anything in particular I should look out for. I will at least pay someone to remove the old one and cap the gas...

Does your home/building insurance not cover this? I appreciate wear and tear and running repairs aren't usually covered, but a buckling wall sounds like something more fundamentally wrong with its construction rather than a fault caused by you. If it were to fall down in the night (and...

With rain forecast for the weekend and the bottom of much of the excavated trench bare soil and rubble (aka Edwardian foundations) I was anxious to start before any rain fell. So, I got half a dozen sacks of ready mix mortar and slung a load down just to cap it. Trowelled it into shape a bit...

I'd be tempted to use a stair nosing across the edge of the step the material will be laid to rather than a glue. Nip it down onto the upward facing edge of the step with some small screws into rawl plugs will secure it nicely. However, if you want to glue, any kind of long life exterior no...

Ok, one last query. Is it viable to use loose sand to pack out some small depressions in the base of the gulley before doing the skim (basically to use less mortar to complete the job). Not to line the whole thing, just the odd hole here and there. Then I think I'm ready to make a...

How big is the area? I have a three metre square flat roof covered with the stuff and it stays in place under its own weight.

No, its going to be angled down so any rain and run off will sluice straight into its own drain at the end of each run. So once any rainy weather has ceased the gully will only stay wet for as long it takes to evaporate off, it won't contain any standing water at all. Am I worrying unduly...

I have a sunken patio which runs the length of the back of my house (Edwardian townhouse), and a raised terraced garden above it accessed by steps up and off the patio. Rain runs off the garden and onto the patio, which for reasons I shall not go into, has been paved with concrete slabs up to...