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I have two external doors, both PvC, with large glass panes, with semi obscured glass, very smooth on one side and a very fine texture on the other side (Stippolyte). The doors were installed in the past few years. Unlike other doors and windows, where the glass panes were clear and smooth on...

We painted the new house 14 months ago. For the walls and ceilings we used Johnstone's brilliant white matt emulsion (which I supplied from Brewers) and for the wood work, doors, architraves and skirtings, we used Johnstone's Brilliant White Eggshell oil based (which the decorator supplied)...

Would anyone be able to recommend a shower tray repairer who does not charge an arm and a leg? The shower tray, since fitted a year ago, has developed two hairline cracks around the waste, which is in the middle. The tray sits on plywood, but is not well supported (fitter used foam), and in...

What happens then? Edited title to clarify it is the electricity company's neutral at/near the meter, or somewhere away from the house

I have a 1100W water pump and a water pressure switch which fails to control it. The switch supposedly starts at 1.5bar and stops at 10bar (it is not clear when it stops, but it says "10bar, 10A". The pump can never reach 10bar, and a good thing too, and so the switch never stops it. I would...

If you recall, a couple of weeks ago we broke through a yellow gas pipe. The gas pipe fed a neighbour's house, and its presence was unknown to us, as it travelled a significant distance under my driveway, which is a very odd thing as the neighbour's house has its own driveway. The pipe...

Digging my front drive to put foundations in for a retaining wall, cut through the neighbour's gas pipe (yellow). Pipe is completely in my land and to make matters worse it is dug in very shallow, and I have been planning to lower the ground levels at that location. Can I request SGN either...

I have installed a fan in the utility room because building control have asked me for it. The fan comes on with the lights and has a timer overrun. I have put a double wall switch on the wall, one button is the lights + fan, the other is fan on/off (disconnects the fan's permanent live). The...

I have a small bathroom and next to it a small guests toilet. They are not vented because they are in the middle of the house downstairs. I need to arrange for final inspection and not sure what to do about this. We have other bathrooms in the house and not really use these two, but I suppose...

Yesterday I installed a Wiser HubR and a bunch of radiator thermostats (12). I keep a few rooms completely shut as we do not use them, and the real temperature in those rooms is about 16.C, but the radiator thermostats show 18C and 19C. The radiators are off, the doors are closed, there are no...

Could anyone please offer some advice? I have : a conventional boiler, one pump, two valves (CH and HW), one room thermostat, one HW cylinder thermostat and one timer module. When the room or the HW thermostat opens, immediately the corresponding valve shuts off, while the main pump is...

Hi everyone, Could you please advise me: I would like to install a wireless CH control system to replace a simple timer and thermostat. There are multiple brands and models to choose from. I would like the following features: 1) wireless control from inside the house without relying on the...

Hello everyone, I have a water filter and water softener and would like to connect them to the rigid pipework which is 22mm and 28mm with flexible tap connectors. The ones I already have here have a small internal diameter, about 13mm. I am looking for something better, if it exists...

I would like to bolt down a railing base over a steel beam, and it requires 12mm bolts. Ideally I would drill a 12mm hole into the steel flange, then fix it with a 12mm bolt from the top and a nut from below. However I do not have easy (or any) access to the space inside the beam and so I cannot...

I am trying to find an electrical, horizontal towel rail and it is proving difficult. There is much better choice if it were a CH type (not electric). Would it be possible to fit an electrical heating element into an ordinary towel radiator? Would it fit? Those electrical elements are 1/2" BSP...

I have been working in the small cloakroom. I am attaching photos from before pouring the slab to today. I trimmed the soil pipe rising up from the floor and looked inside and noticed a piece of rubber caught inside the pipe. This rubber is the seal of the flexible pan connector they used...

Have a toilet in the middle of the house with no way to vent outside. Saw on dragons den (YouTube) a fan pushing airflow at the top of the soil pipe behind the toilet. So I was thinking a vertical circuit with AAV then the fan then into the top of the soil pipe behind the toilet. Has anyone...

Hi everyone, I want to install a glass balustrade on the landing upstairs. There are a few places to buy the glass and the top and bottom rails from, but I must provide the newel posts. The balustrade runs directly over and along a steel beam. The newel posts will be fixed onto the steels...

Hello, I have bought and installed 18mm, tongue and groove, varnished engineered wood flooring. It has a very good fit with no gaps in between boards (if it is done well, which I mostly did). While installing it, and with my glasses on, I noticed that the wear layer, the 5mm oak at the top, is...

Has anyone got or used a tongue and groove machine with engineered wood boards? I tried cutting a groove using the table saw, made it, but it is not a simple task, and I presume the tongue could be done with the router. But if I had a machine then I'd be able to use many more offcuts (eg...