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I have a bath tub that I replace the bath seal about once a year as it keeps deteriorating. What would cause a seal to deteriorate? I used unibond bath sealant. Is there a better product out there which will stop me having to replace the seal once a year?

My house has a back addition and the tiles between the main roof and this back addition are joined by mortar filling. This has become damaged with time and so water is leaking through the mortar. Roofer recommends that this mortar is repaired but obviously this will have limited life time...

British Gas has recommended that we get a Hydroflow for our Potterton combi boiler which is 10 years old. They have quoted £175 including VAT. Is this worth having or are they just trying to flog work?

Whenever I flush my downstairs toilet the pipes make a really odd loud noise like a train hooting as it drives past! Any help on what could be causing this?

Do I need a gas safe engineer to connect a digital wall timer to a boiler or will an electrician do?

I have an economy 7 meter which has reading for peak and off peak cycles. I am told it is meant to send a signal to the off peak electricity consumer unit and turn this on during the off peak cycle. The storage heaters are connected to this off peak consumer unit and so should only receive...

My balcony window has 2 doors. They each have a security bolt at the top and at the bottom. The one at the bottom of the left door no longer works when I turn the lock key. How do I remove the bolt to put a new one in? The door is stuck so I can not see how to access the bolt.

I have an air extractor that has a timer on it and has been rigged up to switch on when the bathroom light is switched on and then stays on for the timed period after the light is switched off. If I want to make this turn on when the light is switched on and off when the light is switched...

Odd problem here, which I am hoping someone will be able to help! I had an extractor fan fitted 10 months ago. It is a normal Manrose bathroom fan bought from B&Q, which has a timer but does not have a humidistat. It is turned on when the bathroom light is switched on and when the light...

Is there such an electrical switch which allows you to choose which immersion heater to use in a tank? At the moment my hot water tank has 2 separate heaters, each 3kW rated. There is a cable running out of each of them which I can plug into the wall socket one at a time. I know this is...

My kitchen tap is leaking from the inside on the hot water side so the water runs down the supply pipe. Dynorod has come out to isolate the leak but it means that I can only get cold water from the tap now. Can the tap be repaired? It is a mixer tap.

I have a problem where the door handle to an internal door keeps falling off and I can't put it back on as there are so many holes in that area there is nothing for the screws to grip on. Any ideas on how to fix this apart from superglue the handle to the door?

I removed the wall paper from a plastered wall and then painted the plaster with dulux once emulsion but it all started to crack and flake off. Do you have to treat the surface before you can paint over it after taking the wall paper off?

My boiler was installed without the existing timer connected. Is it an easy job to connect the current timer to the boiler now? I plan to get a gas safe engineer to do this but wonder if it would be a big job and cost a lot?

I have a very nice mixer tap in the bathroom which works fine with cold water but gives very little hot water. I don't want to throw it out as it is very expensive. Can any tap be refurbished / repaired?

My immersion heating element seems to burn out every 1.5 years. The hot water in the flat is provided by the immersion heater and an electric shower. I have replaced the immersion heating element with a titantinium one but it still seem to burn out just as regularly. Is this normal?

Hope you guys can help. I have an electric cooker, electric hob and cooker hood all on the same circuit through the kitchen fuse. The fuse is 13A and it blows every 3 months or so and normally when the cooker and 2 hobs are on together. Any idea why?

Is it ok to put paving slabs directly onto bare soil in my back garden? I don't want to do the proper patio thing. I just want some even area that is not muddy to have summer picnics on. Should I pour sand on top of the earth to help with levelling? Someone suggested this, but I think this...

My builder has proposed that he cut a panel off the stud wall with tiles on them to put pipes behind in the bathroom and then put this whole slice back. This will save having to hack the tiles off and retiling. Is this possible? How would the piece be put back? Won't the slice be prone to...

My Triton electric shower often has the low pressure light on and the hot water stops coming out because the mains pressure suffers from low fluctuations. Is there a way to fix this? Can pump be fitted to feed cold water at pressure to the exisitng shower? or is there a simpler way? i...