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Hi I have a Harvey Mini Arc water softener that takes Curved Block salts. I'm looking for compatible cheaper salts and need advice on what I need to look for when buying salts without damaging the softener. Thanks

Hi My shower in the loft appear to have started to leak as stains have started to appear on the ceiling directly below. The shower was installed 8 years ago when the loft conversion was done and so far it's been fine until now. I have inspected the tiles and noticed one or two have become a...

Hi Recently the cold water bathroom tap starts running a bit of water with a sound but this only happens when the kitchen tap is turned on. As soon as the kitchen tap is off, the sound and running stops in the bathroom tap. The separate hot water tap is not affected. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hi looking for suggestions for the front wall of my terraced house. Initially I wanted get someone to rebuild it but was getting quotes over £1.5K so now thinking of either getting it painted or rendered. Would any brick acid help?

Hi I have a Vaillant EcoFit 830 boiler that had suddenly keeps losing pressure to 0 Bar with a F22 error. So there is no hot water or heating. After re-pressurising it, it starts working again for 2 hours before the same thing happens again. I had a Boiler Engineer through breakdown insurance...

I have a bathroom with a shower cubicle which has paint peeling from the ceiling. I have scraped off as much as I can and ready to go on to the next step but would like some advice please as a novice. I will try and smooth down the existing paint edges before using a filler but which paint can...

Hi. I have a Harvey Arc water softener which takes blocks of salt and I have noticed over the past week that salt has remained the same and not gone down. Limescale has also starting to appear around the taps and sink so it looks like it's stopped working. I have a bypass valve to use when...

Hi I have a bathroom in the loft with the light switch outside the bathroom. Family members frequently forget to switch off the lights after they come out which also runs the extractor fan in the bathroom. For a reminder, I'm looking to replace the switch with one that has a neon light on it and...

Hi I have a flat with a open plan kitchen. Which is a big room with kitchen on one end, dining room in the centre and a sofa and TV on the other end. Currently it's painted with just the one colour paint but the walls are 'dusty' so if I was to wipe off a stain hard the paint appears to come...

Hi One of my spotlights in my bathroom need the bulb changing but so far I am struggling to get to the bulb. The chrome part doesn't twist or clip off and the whole unit can be pulled down but some kind of spring inside is preventing me to pull it all out. I don't want to force it down as it...

Hi Yesterday I heard a loud bang and found one half of my patio door's glass shattered. I live in a block of flats and the patio door is at the entrance of my balcony. There does not seem to be any objects to hit it to shatter so I'm assuming it could be changes in the weather. The doors are at...

Hi I have bought a Brita Torlan 3 Way Filter Tap to replace my existing filter tap. The Brita tap comes with free Standard installation which is a bonus but I am concerned that if I book their plumber, he will have one look and say its not straight forward and refuse the free standard...