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Woke up the other morning to find the house really really hot - much hotter than the room stat would have allowed. Ours is an old Y plan configuration on a condensing boiler. I made sure both H/W tank and room stats had actually clicked off as I would have expected given how hot everything...

I was clearing out a late colleagues collection of electrical/electronic tools when I came across something odd looking, which through a google image search, the mystery item has turned out to be a Miller MK02 cable sheath cutter. It looks like it might be quite a handy bit of kit , as...

We have a Siemens SN65M030GB/16 dishwasher and I must have had the damn thing apart half a dozen times to fix various leaks and other faults over the years. The same guts are in several other dishwashers of that era (Bosch etc). This time, I can see through the inspection panel that it seems to...

Need to stick some "Polysafe" heavy duty non-slip vinyl floor covering down to a plywood base, but I need to do it in such a way that it can be removed if necessary to gain access to services under the floor below so I don't want to glue it. Some carpet tapes aren't suitable for vinyl, so can...

We own a flat we rent out, and there are moves afoot to replace the existing flat entry fire doors which are FD30 and about 40 years old with poor fitting frames and various other defects, with new FD30S fire door sets. No issue with that - fire brigate have taken a look and advised they are...

We have an MK triple switched outlet in our kitchen on the ring main, not a spur. See Screwfix item 17315. Yesterday, the three appliances on it lost power. The socket has been there with the same three appliances on it for over a decade and I didn't initially realise this outlet plate has...

I keep having issues in a flat we own with Tesla dual safety immersion thermostats item 21275 from Screwfix on the Economy 7 circuit/heater. The boost circuit doesn't get used enough to draw any conclusions for that one. The E7 stat seems to last barely longer than the one year warranty Tesla...

I'm refitting a bathroom for my parents. I was originally going to use Ardex NA to level the concrete floor. But when I've taken up carpet and old floor tiles and had a spirit level on it, the floor turns out to be a bit of a mess of sections/levels/slopes, and much worse than it originally...

Was heading into one of our bedrooms this morning, only to find that I couldn't open the door - the latch was jammed solid. There was no warning of impending failure. All our doors were replaced at the same time some years back - so I checked around and found another bedroom door latch was...

Just fitting a Nuie Ivo close coupled comfort height toilet today as part of a bathroom refit for my mum and dad. I've come across one or two challenging loos in the past but this one is a bit more annoying than most and I wondered if anyone else has seen something similar, and if so, what...

Currently re-fitting my parents bathroom for assisted showering. This is onto an unbreachable concrete floor so I need to run a pipe out the side of the (raised) shower tray and box it in. There are two variants of tray I'm looking to buy, where these trays have a built in anti-slip surface and...

Hi - just wondered if anyone had any particular recommendations for self levelling compounds for a concrete floor? I have used them occasionally before, but find the products I've used go off far too quickly so it has been a full on race to trowel them out to avoid a disaster. I'm prepared to...

Need to stick a piece of plasterboard to the underside of a concrete lintel in a window reveal. Have some plasterboard adhesive ready to dot and dab it, but just wondered if it will stick straight on or whether it needs any surface prep such as PVA etc. Thanks.

Just about do a bathroom project for my parents. Managed without needing an SDS Plus drill/chisel up to now as I don't normally do enough of the sort of work that needs one and/or I have the luxury of taking my time - but in this case, I need to get the job done much faster and I have three...

Looking to put in an electric shower for my parents who are in their 80s, and the Mira Advance Flex looks a good option for us given the friendliness and clarity of the controls for my mum whose sight is going a bit, and she has arthritis in her hands - plus the max temp can be configured on...

Our south facing sunroom has Maple engineered flooring which has been down for around 15 years and has been bleached in the bright sunlight. The skirting was put on after it was laid - which gave a really nice neat finish without bits of quadrant, but makes it a more difficult job to replace...

A wheelchair bound friend of mine has a front door frame that tends to get hit with the wheelchair from time to time. Sticky backed foam draught seal won't last long and the current strip of it is dropping off - but I notice on the top and the hinge side of the door, what I assume is the...

When a set of standard headphones is plugged into the headphone socket of a relative's TV, voices are all chopped up and garbled to the point they are completely unintelligible. What's odd is if there happens to be music on the channel that is selected at the time (instead or as well as voices)...

Looking to swap a halogen 12V GU 5.3 for an LED in a relative's fibre optic Christmas tree - but when I look around, I see bulbs saying they are for 12V DC, ones that say 12V AC, ones that say they will work on either, and ones that don't say anything other than 12V. Confusing, so I assume...

A friend of ours lives in a top floor flat in a stone-built Victorian semi-detached house, and has what appears to be condensation problems on just one wall in a bedroom. Main points as follows: The flats were converted about 20 years ago, and it looks to have been done well and to high...