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Hi guys I have a room with a single pendant light towards one end of the room, a single twin and earth cable comes into the pendant, and a single switch on the wall. I want to add a light to the other side of the of the room where is quite dark. I know I have to wire this in parallel, but not...

Hi guys Since we had our old larger steel pipes changed out to 22mm copper for our gas supply by our gas safe engineer, the boiler seems to be much slower at getting hot water to temperature. Particularly noticeable in the shower, less so the bathroom sink, both of which are situated no more...

Hi guys. I am trying to repair a leak in this roof. Original Welsh slate, no felt underneath. Having sprayed a hose at various locations it seems to entering around where I put the red mark. The ceiling below has collapse and due to lack of felt I'm confident it's coming in here but no obvious...

Hi guys I'm replacing some external grade Cat5e cable with SWA Cat 6 armoured that connects a summer house to the router in the main house, 30m apart (see diagram). Currently, the cable comes up through the base plate in the timber frame stud wall, and then pops out half way up the wall and...

Hi all I'm trying to repair an oven door for the Hotpoint EG900X S oven. The inner most glass pane (p/n J00123623 i.e. closest to the oven itself, had shattered). It was in pieces, and inner seals had fallen out, so I don’t know how it goes back together. I ordered a new inner glass pane and...

Hello everyone Something I never thought I would get involved in is the detail of firestopping. Am fitting a new roof myself as a competent tradesperson. Originally was connected to the neighbours house on one side as one single roof. The other neighbour has a seperate roof anyway, but...

Hi guys. I always seem to run into this problem. I can never seem to get replacement seals for various plumbing parts, and because I'm not a plumber, I rarely carry spares of these things. Tried plumbers merchants but they didn't want to help. Jobsworth on the front desk. OD is about 44mm...

Hi guys I have a Hitron Chita router that came with virgin media. The power adapter is quite large and interferring with some furniture I have. Specifications of power adapter output: 12V, 3.5A = 42W Specifications of router: max 36W power consumption, which I would assume to mean 12V x 3A...

Hi all Our DAEWOO ERF-337MB Fridge Freezer is leaking a pool of water every day or few days. Collects on the floor right hand corner of the fridge. Obviously escaping through the freezer door. It doesn't seem to affect the function of the fridge or the freezer but would like to fix it...

Hi guys I have a soil pipe that won't stop leaking In the original photo you can see there were 2 cracks in the cast iron pipe. When the drain got blocked, the water nearly backed out out the 1st floor toilet, and leaked through these cracks. Previous person put an ill fitting flexible...

Hi everyone I previously built an apple press out of pallets as you can see in attached image. Worked for a while, but the cross beam eventually broke after being put under too much pressure from the screw press. I have managed to come across a load of oak 95 x 95mm x 600mm offcuts from a...

Hi all Client has asked me to lay a paved footpath through the middle of this gravel driveway so they can drag the bins to the road. There is weed membrane underneath the gravel. I'm guessing if we cleared the gravel, and laid mortar on the weed membrane it will eventually move. It needs to...

Hi I have a Makita PLM 4601 petrol mower with 4HP Briggs and Stratton engine Bought it secondhand but it was in very good condition and the guy said it had just been serviced Oil looked, and still looks clean and is full. It was working fine the first couple of goes infact, but now just...

Hi I am going to get myself an electric van. So many reasons to do it right now. But I need to know what is the best option for tax relief in this current tax year, as i know the rules have changed. Here are my two options as I understand it. Both of which are based over a 3yr period...

Does such a thing exist? A year ago I bought an Apache waterproof jacket. It looked robust, had the classic cordura material on parts. Turned out to be the worst jacket I ever bought. Stitching started coming apart after a week. Minor nicks turned into major tears. I ended up looking like...

Hi guys Am planning on building a garden room on heavy clay soil in SE london. Am keeping to 30m2 internally as I want to avoid building control if I can. Building control are virtually impossible to get hold of right now, but from the very brief e-mail I recieved, they want 2m deep piles or...

I am aware this has been discussed many times on here but I have a slightly different quirk. I want my outbuilding that I plan to construct in the back garden to have an internal floor area of less than 30m2 to avoid having to go through building control However, there is also a window seat...

I have built a few summerhouses / outbuildings on pile foundations (screw piles and concrete). On the latest job, the client wants to push the timber framed building right up to the back of the garden where there are several medium sized trees. Never normally an issue as the client usually...

Hi all I have installed a couple of those foil backed Pro-Therm electric underfloor heating matts, and am about to install another, each under engineered floating floor. To be honest, the layout has been a complete nightmare. Thought I had it planned out with a nice border round the edge...

Hi everyone Am at the limits of my knowledge with these as I have taken them apart but cannot figure out what the problem is. First up is this one: So as you can see it's got very little power. Now before you say it, I put new brushes in there and the battery, whilst old was fully charged...