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I have a Beko WTL72051W which is about 18 months old. It goes into spin if there is nothing in the drum. But with a single cotton t-shirt in the drum it does not go into the spin cycle after completing the wash and rinse cycles. It does slowly turn the drum one way then the other, but it does...

Hi, I'm considering changing from gas cooker to electric. The house was built in 1980 in Scotland. We had a conservatory built ten years ago and they had to upgrade the fuses to an RCD. I've attached a couple of images, I don't know if that fuse marked cooker is actually a fuse or not...

Hi folks, I am going to have a worktop, sink and taps replaced. I am thinking that if I source a worktop, sink and taps then get a plumber or kitchen fitter to fit them that might be the way to go. Is that a good plan? Would it be better if I get the worktop and leave the professional to...

Hi all, My system is the older kind with a hot water tank (not the hot water heated on demand type). Hot water is working okay. All the heaters in the house have suddenly stopped working. I put my hand on the inlet pipe to all of the heaters and none of them feel warm. The main thermostat...

My car is a basic model Hyundai i20 2013 which has done 96,000 miles. I do mostly town driving. I have a clutch judder problem that has been coming-and-going over the years I have had the car. Every year or so it has a period of judderyness, then it clears up of its own accord. But now it has...

Hi folks, I have been having a problem with dampness in a front doorpost. Every couple of years I was finding some rot at the bottom of the post, digging it out, filling it, then painting over it. I assume that some dampness was getting in at the top then ending up at the bottom due to...

Hi all. My front step and stairs leading down from it are needing repaired. They are 50 ish years old and the cement (if that is what it is) has dissolved and many of the bricks are loose. The whole thing is solid enough just now, it doesn't wobble, but needs work to keep it that way. I...

I am doing up an old push bike, there are patches of metal here and there, and lots of scratches to the paintwork. I kind of like the beat up look, and I like to use what I have rather than buy new. I have some solvent-based interior varnish left over from indoor jobs, what would happen if I...

Hi, My Beko DVS04X20W isn't draining. Only two years old, very disappointing. I can't get the filter out but I will work on that, the manual isn't very clear about how to do it. What I have done is disconnect the drain hose from where it joins the main drainage system under the kitchen...

Hello all, In the past I have treated the facia boards on my house extension with wood stain (see picture). If I do that again I reckon I'd probably have to remove the old wood stain before applying new. Would it be a good idea for me just to remove all the obvious loose wood stain, then...

Hello all. I have had a problem with the door post on my porch for years. Every year or maybe every second year I find that I need to re-paint the post. At the bottom it is usually damp and a bit rotten so I let it dry out, apply wood hardener and filler, then paint it again. I don't know...

I live in a semi-detached house built by Wimpy in the late 70s. Block and block cavity wall construction, and the cavity has been filled with insulating polystyrene beads. Will the gable wall in the roof space (the triangular bit of the gable wall) also be double-skin with an air gap? Or as...

Hi folks The overflow pipe from the cold water tank in my roof space can be seen going into the wall (see picture) but it cannot be seen exiting on the outside of the house. Why is it like this? Could it be connected to a drain somewhere with the wall cavity? Could some cowboy plumbers have...

Last night a bit of water was dripping through our bathroom ceiling. I had a quick look and will be doing more of an investigation after writing this. So far it looks like the ballcock didn't completely shut off the water entering the cold water tank in the roof, there was a trickle entering...

My washing machine drum doesn't even try to rotate. Machine fills and drains but anything to do with turning the drum results in silence, no whirring or clicking noises of any kind. Any ideas? Control board? Motor brushes? Machine, a Beko, is maybe ten years old or more. The motor has been...

I wasn't sure where to put this but as it is about water ingress I plumped for the roofing forum. My conservatory has a leak, it is 13 years old, see pictures. Looks to me like it is getting in either under the sealant on the wall, or under the sealant bead that runs vertically an inch or...

I have a problem with the facia boards on my porch, see photos. The timber is quite sound, it doesn't seem to be rotten, more a case of it de-laminating. Not sure how the water got in, but the delamination seems to be happening from the outside, that is the bit facing out. I think some water...

Hi, Can a gas cooker (i.e. a free-standing unit with burners on top and an oven underneath) be connected with a flexible pipe? I ask this as I am thinking of buying a new cooker and want to be able to move it around a little bit (just a few inches each way) if I fit new units and worktops...

Hello, I am thinking of replacing a gas hob with an electric hob. I will get the gas hob removed by a registered gas fitter (at the same time as he/she does a boiler service). The hob will be in a space which had an an electric cooker in it many years ago, there is a wall-socket underneath...

I have a conservatory built roughly three years ago. There are eight panels and four of them have cracks. The cracks are all on the UPVC frame radiating from the corner weld, all at the bottom of the frame. They are just hairline cracks, barely visible unless you are looking for them. The...