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I have a 4 year old Beko american style fridge: GNEV221/GNEV221 In the fridge side, it feels cold at the bottom, but is only about 18 degrees at the top. In the freezer side, recently it's started making ice at the top, but then sometimes the ice melts/is half melted, although food generally...

Thanks both, I'll give spring clamps a try..

I want to build a quick rough and ready canopy frame for a wooden sleigh bed without damaging the bed itself by screwing or gluing anything to it. Since I can't use cable ties or anything to tie the vertical pieces of the canopy frame to the bed (since there are no 'bed posts' I was thinking to...

No hot water cylinder, all mains fed. Sounds like a heat exchanger problem after all... thanks both.

Hi, I bought a house about a year ago, and today was the first time I turned the central heating on. The central heating works fine. I also replaced the old radiator in the upstairs bedroom with a new one at the same time, I THINK I got the return and flow the right way. Anyway, I am...

Hi, just looking for some advice as have just started out :) The walls in the bedroom are painted very badly (in my opinion), see picture; slightly textured and not smooth. I would like the final result to be a smooth finish using matt or semi-satin emulsion. Also, I had a plasterer in...

Hi All, I'm renovating a room in my house. It had a picture rail, which I removed. But now I find the bottom section of the wall is out of alignment with the top by a few mm. I've had a plasterer come in for a quote, and he tells me in order to do a perfect job, he's going to have to apply...

Get Paint.net. It's a free image editor and has layers and other fancy features like Photoshop.

Perhaps instead of giving this high and mighty attitude, you might try to understand that not all of us professionals who've had formal training or on the job experience, that some of us are DIYers who are starting out and might ask (what seems to you to be) stupid questions. Rather than giving...

Thanks gasservice1985. I'm just starting out in DIY so I researched into it, and found that without a drain cock the easiest way to drain the water initially is to get a self cutting tap. Now that I've at least got SOME way to drain the system I can put in a radiator valve with a drain valve and...

No, not concrete. Whats that got to do with this?

I wasn't trying to buy ****e, but this is only one of 2 designs I could find online.

I bought one of these from Screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/self-cutting-tap-15mm-x/21250 to connect to my central heating pipework since I don't have a drain off valve. I've connected it up, but it's leaking very slightly and it seems to be from the locking nut. I've done it up very tight...

I'm doing something similar, renovating the entire house, although starting with the master bedroom first in time for the missus moving in. I'm trying to do everything myself, and do it 'properly' rather than cheaply. Man, what a hassle! Gutting, the room currently, it's the small annoying...

Just to clarify, this is my own house. I found the Twinflex alarm system installed when I moved in. It doesn't work, and I'll either get rid of it or get it fixed at a later date. But regardless, I'm re-decorating one of the rooms and I need to remove it temporarily to fix the damaged plaster on...

Re-decorating, and to move them.

Hi, I've got a few Twinflex Multipoint detecors installed (before I moved in). I'm trying to remove them, I've bought the head removal tool, but I can't see a screw inside attaching it to the ceiling. How do I remove it, is it fixed from below, or above or is it adhesive...

Excellent, thanks for the advice.

Hi yes, I will secret screw with tongue tite. Is it ok to nail the plywood down? And does plywood need the same 10mm expansion gaps around the edges of the room as the solid flooring?

Hi, a couple of simple questions. I have a pine subfloor which runs in the same direction as the solid wood flooring I am laying down. So, I'm told I need to use 5-6mm plywood or hardboard over it to make the floor as level as possible. 1 - Can I use underlay such as the fancy foil stuff...