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Just wanted it to be spot on best i could due to the forward slope, but i think thats the only way...just thought may have been a more technical way

Between my gable end i have a long drive..opposite my neighbours garage. So the port will span from my gable end to his garage wall. It will have a slight slop forwards into guttering and down pipe. I have permisson from my neighbout to mount a beam along the its lenght..i will add one on my...

Hi guys Building a carport bewteen two opposite high walls. I ll attach a beam to one wall but how would i mirror the same position on the opposite wall please?

am buying a new fish tank, total weight when full is almost 1/2 ton. In order for the support to be there the tank will be hard up against the wall which between my home and my neighbour (semi detached) problem is I can't take up the floor and check as we paid a fortune to have laminate...

Anyone? Will any cc cistern work?

Yeah I think eventually it would leak and then be a chew on again to replace. So basically any cc cistern should work?

hi guys, hope someone can offer some help. My cistern stopped working so had to buy new flush bits. In order to fit I had to remove the cistern from the toilet. This was held on by 2 bolts though a metal plate which sat on a rubber donut. The cistern it self had no bolt fixing holes. So...

Yes old one was like that but this cupboard has a normal cupboard door and opens left to right, not up and over like cook hood type, I can only assume the filter sticks on the bottom and the extract goes through cupbaords and out

Hi Had a new kitchen fitted and we have noticed the cupboards sides above either side of the cooker have began to bubble, after only 2 months. The problem would seem to come from the steam from the cooker. We bought this cooker hood, but all it was, was an empty cupboard. So how does this...

Hi guys Hoping someone can help. We have a baxi combi boiler, about 4 years old and last service in September 2014. We have a shower, the mixer types with thermostatic valve and its always work ok. Anyway the other week I noticed a marked in crease in the water pressure coming from the...

Hi there I am removing a socket from a ring main and replacing this with a 13 amp fused switch box. from this I will spur of a single socket and another spur from the fused switch will connect in series 2 double sockets. The layout is all done, however I am concerned about the amount of...

Hi Guys I have a mira 88 shower, the type that runs off the cold and hot feeds, not from the taps but from the pipes in the wall. Last year I got a new combi boiler and noticed the shower began to drip after turning it fully off. Recently its got worse and now its a steady stream. I...

Hi Guys, I have a single socket that is below the kitchen work top and is used for the washing machine. Opening this socket reveals 2 cables entering. It was my plan to add to this socket a 3rd cable running to a fused switch to enable the addition of further sockets. Well the socket is...

Hi guys..have a question that i hope someone can help with..I have a massive fish tank that i need to fill with warm water, normally done by connecting a hose pipe to the mixer tape, but this doesnt work that well as its hard to keep connected. So was thinking of fitting to the hot and cold...

Cheers, just wasn't sure if the expansion was at fault forcing the water up.If its nothing other than faulty vent I can replace that myself

Hi there I have a baxi combi boiler, HE range, about 3 years old. I noticed a big puddle on the floor and traced the leak to the heat exchange automatic air vent. The little black screw in it was fully open and the water was coming from this. Its stained so looks like being leaking a...

Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a 5 meter stretch of single brick wall, 4 feet high with one row of decorative brick on top (see pic ). As we have no privacy at all, was think of building a fence on top of the wall. I would secure 4-5, 2x2 posts to the brick wall, my side secure 3-4...

thank you guys, i understand it all now. with out the thermostats on the raditors they would just constantly be red hot untill the heat in the house reached the wall thermostat and knocked off the boiler. using the TRVs they allow each room to reach temp independently then throttle back the...

i used one of these sites when i wanted the house rewiring. Was amazing how many people can price something as big as this without seeing what was involved. The guy we choose was honest and said he couldnt quote with out seeing so we asked him round and after a few other quotes he got the job...

right, thank you. Yes there is a TRV on the radiator in the hallway about 4 foot away from the wall thermostat. just a question but why wouldn't you just set all the TRVs to max, warming the house quicker and turning the boilder of faster? Sorry if i am being thick