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I'm aiming to replace the hinge on the door of a Bosch WAQ283S1GB/01 washing machine, with the hinge carrying a part number 9000463344. I have found an equivalent part on eBay, but when I removed the door I found these little plastic fasteners instead of screws. I thought they might be pop...

The toilet in our bathroom is about five years old. Over the past few weeks it has developed a fault so that after flushing the water continues to run into the bowl. It does eventually stop, but it takes a while and it seems to be taking longer and longer. Taking off the cistern lid I can see...

I want to build a small dam across a hillside stream on my land to create a header tank from which to extract water for my water supply. (NB I already have the right to extract - the house has taken its modest share of the water from this stream for a couple of hundred years - but I need to...

I have a small and flimsy shed that houses the pump equipment for my private water supply. It's nearly 10 years old and has spent most of that time without any maintenance. The main body of the shed is still sound, but ultimately the whole thing needs to be replaced with something more...

This morning my shower tray filled up and the water took hours to clear (seems to have all gone now). I think there is a blockage in or just above a Hepvo trap that is installed by our plumber about 5 feet from the shower tray. I have managed to get access to the trap, which is under the...

I'm an inexperienced DIYer trying to attach metal handles (which I did not choose myself) to IKEA kitchen drawers. The problem is that the handles don't have holes on the front of the handle that go right through. This means that I can't easily mark the hole from the front of the handle, drill a...