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I’ve had a partial rewire and the electrician removed the old shed socket because the shed was being demolished. The original 2.5 mm² T&E that supplied that socket is still in place from the kitchen to the shed location, and it forms part of an RCD-protected socket circuit at the main consumer...

TLDR: I bought a shed and it's got a bouncy floor and no bearers. Do I have legal grounds to take action? The more detailed version: I recently bought a shed at a cost of approximately £3500 with installation included. It was a bespoke 8x24' build. There are basically two issues with it...

So we want to get a new cooker and we want a 90cm range, but the space where the cooker is currently can't be expanded. Therefore, I wonder if there's another potential location for the cooker. Where would you put it? The space on the left seems like a possible option—currently it's just a...

My bathroom window isn’t closing properly. I think it’s because the underside of the hinge is catching on the track built into the frame. You can see from the photo where it’s left a mark. Bearing in mind I have rivets into aluminium and not screws, how can I potentially fix this, or is it a...

I have water getting in above my patio doors at the rear of my house (pictured). When we had those torrential rains a few weeks ago I woke up to a pool of water in that room. I figured it might be getting in either via where I fixed the pergola to the wall or via degraded mortar on that wall...

Please see attached pics. I went to my local hardware and to Selco and neither had anything close to this. It states 'Yale—Glissade A' on the external faceplate. Nothing on the internal. Length 193mm (or 115mm aside from front plate) Backset 30mm PZ centre 45mm What are my options here? I'd...

Can anyone help with some advice on this external pipework? The toilet waste (plastic) is going onto the main waste (asbestos concrete) and there is a small leak (for now) so that it drips every few seconds. The leak is coming from the white bit in the photo so at least I know the pipe is not...

I need to redirect this pipe, which is coming from a bathroom basin, so that it runs down the right hand side of this window, as per the blue arrow in the attached pic. I've also include a closeup. The difficult thing is that the pipe is curved as it's coming out of the wall, so I can't just cut...

As per title: 1) What do I need to treat the wood with, to make sure the pergola lasts? I assumed just a wood preserver, but apparently you also need a ‘topcoat’ of something. I want a completely natural look, and I don’t want anything that needs to be recoated quickly because it will be...

So a simple bathroom cabinet replacement job has become a multi-day ordeal. Having taken the old cabinet off the wall I was left with unsightly holes on two tiles. I tried removing with a hammer and chisel, but I ended up taking loads of the old plasterboard off too, and I cracked a third tile...

This is leaking at the handle so I think the ceramic cartridge needs replacing. How do I get to it?

In the course of trying to get rid of some mould marks I managed to strip parts of the window frame of paint, as per the picture. I’d like to repaint the whole frame. What’s a good solution here? Eggshell white with primer underneath?

We have some built-in wardrobes that look like they’re from the 70s or 80s and we want to freshen them up by painting them in a white eggshell. However I’ve never used eggshell before and I recently had a nightmare trying to use quick drying gloss on some woodwork elsewhere. Is quick drying...

I have two Liebherr fridges (T1710) and one of them is no longer cooling. The inside of the fridge is basically room temperature, although the light does come on. The coils at the back don’t have much dust on them, but I cleaned them anyway, and that didn’t work. I have two of the same model in...

The lighter area is where the sun comes in from a window to the right. It’s had about seven or eight coats now, and I still can’t get a uniform finish. Is there anything I can do with Danish Oil to achieve that? At the minute, I’m just applying the oil, letting it soak and buffing it.

I’m repainting the woodwork on my house. Some of the sills are fine. Some are starting to flake and one will need repairing with filler. Am I okay to paint over these after removing the flaky paint or do I need to go back to bare wood and put primer on? The paint I’ve got is Sandtex exterior...

We have an old Danfoss 4033 timer that controls when our boiler turns on and off and the timer bit has just stopped turning by itself, so we’re no longer able to programme it to come on. (Although the boiler still works fine if we turn it on manually via the on/off switches of the Danfoss? Is...

I have some work I need to do to the exterior of my house that requires working up a ladder for an extended period. Are there any commercial products for securing a ladder that are worth buying? The reason why I ask is because we recently had someone from Openreach come to the house and the...

We're looking to take up the carpet in a room in our house that's going to become a nursery. We're strictly limited on the budget and will be putting down reclaimed parquet. My question is, is it feasible as long as the floorboards are in good condition and level to lay the reclaimed parquet...

So about two weeks ago, when there was that massive thunderstorm, we had water (a lot of it) dripping into our house from the upper section on the alcove of the interior of this window. Logically, I'm thinking there's a problem with degraded mortar on the exterior wall, which when there's a lot...