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It’s a bog-standard wall, the outer walls are brick - I’m afraid that’s all I know, but I don’t think we’ll need a rawl plug

I really do apologise for having to ask this, but all will become clear when you read this post. You see my husband’s parents were the sort who did everything for him. Mine weren’t and so I learnt that in order to hang a picture you hammered a nail or picture hook into the wall. My husband on...

You did read the bit where I said I replaced them with CDs? I was just doing this for the fun of it and to see if I could

I had an old cassette tape which had become unwound and using a pencil failed to budge it, although one of the circles of tape had an ominous bulge in it. Yes, it hadn’t been stored properly, but I could replace the tape with CDs, which made it good for me to practice on. I searched the net...

Hi, hope this is okay to post here. I have an old RJW wristwatch, the sun/moon sort. Many years ago, it stopped working despite the batteries having been changed. I took it to a shop and found that the price for quartz cleaning had jumped from £16 to £90. Now, a former mate of mine had...

If it’s that simple I’ll do it when my son isn’t around. I asked because I don’t know anything about locks (Dad doesn’t either) and I had visions of little bits I didn’t know about falling out of the lock and it suddenly becoming a very expensive job indeed. We’ve paid £482 out this year for...

Thanks very much crank39

It’s a mortice lock and yes, I have a picture but it’s on the camera on my mobile and I can’t work out how to upload it. If you can please tell me how to upload it from the camera I will, or I’ll upload it as a file tomorrow night

Our son has taken to putting kitty litter in the lock. We don’t see him doing this (he’d get a right telling off if we did) but it’s either him or the cat that’s doing it. Anyway, while we can get some of it out with a Hoover, there are two pieces stuck. It doesn’t seem to impede the key...