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I’d appreciate some advice on this. I’m looking to install a split-system air conditioner in my front bedroom. Accessing the power sockets in the bedroom would be difficult, so I was wondering whether the installer could instead use the loft circuit for power. The loft has a dedicated 16A MCB...

I would be really grateful of any suggestions on how best to add a heating element radiator to my bathroom. I have a standard towel rail radiator. It would be good to heat this all year round to dry the towels without having to put the heating on. Behind the towel rail wall is a bedroom, but...

Looking for some advice please. I am looking to get an outside socket at the front of my house. The options are... 1. Run from washing machine single socket behind wall. 2. Run directly from electric meter box which is in the exact area I need the outside socket. Option 2 could be quite...

Was having a loft clear up and a Sky STB fell from my loft, through the hatch, down stairs and hit my bannister. AGHHHHHH so annoyed about it but could have hit the TV so could have been worse. Can anyone recommend suppliers who may stock this type. It is an oak finish, looks to be veneer. It...

Hello, My house is just over 6 years old. There are a lot of these markings on the skirting boards. This room is the worst of them all and I can only assume it must have been the glue used for the vinyl. Also, if you look, there is a gap between the vinyl in places. How best can I sort this...

I am looking for some advice for my six year old kitchen. It came with my shared ownership newbuild. I had no choice in what kitchen I got. It is really bland and slowly starting to show signs of age. A couple of cupboards are warping on the edges and I noticed this evening that one of the...

Has anyone used ethernet for powering a Ring doorbell? Getting tired of constantly changing the batteries in mine. Despite it being a new house, no doorbell cabling was provided, and there are no power sockets by my front door so it would involve a lot of fishing cables round downstairs...

Hi, I have had a leaking gutter all winter. It has now been repaired but I can see the wall has gone a funny colour outside. I had a leak further along and the wall is quite green. Can anyone recommend what I should use to get the wall to look normal again or should I just leave it? Thanks in...

Hi there, I have two thermostats, one on the ground floor and one on the first floor. They go back to my Baxi combi boiler. As such, I only need smart thermostats that control the heating as there is no need for hot water control with the boiler being a combi. This is the wiring behind my...

I recently had my carpet changed for LVT and now the shocking condition of my skirting boards is more obvious. I am not sure if some kind of glue was used with my skirting boards, but they have always had this strange yellowing to them. In the cupboards, the paint is yellow on the skirtingboards...

My house is 5 years old so almost still a new buildo_O. I have had quite a few issues with the gutters and roof. Leaking gutters and tiles flying off of the roof. Several issues have been dealt with by the builder through snagging in the past. The latest saga is the gutters front and back are...

Hi there, my newbuild is not so new, about 4.5 years old. I have noticed the following and wondered if anyone could tell me what could be causing this? The door has not had any bangs or damage that would cause this. It seems some of the plaster is coming away between the doorframe and...

I bought a chest of draws from Made.com earlier in the year. Sadly, they have gone bust now, shame as they did some nice styles of furniture. I am finding that the paint finish doesn't seem to have been treated. We have a Neom diffuser on this piece of furniture. You fill the diffuser oil in...

Hi there, I had a company in back in 2019 to install a TV on my wall and also run cables behind the plasterboard. The guy put in the boxes to route the cables with the bristles on however, neglected to realist that there is a baton between the box he put behind the tv (drawn in red) and the one...

I need to change the seals on my bathroom sinks as the O Rings have started to become very loose. I have taken some measurements and I am getting 33mm wide for where the rubber actually attaches to: The outer measurements of the plug are 34mm: Can anyone recommend some suitable O Rings that...

I am thinking of getting a set of smart thermostats to help keep my heating costs down. I have a combi boiler, no hot water tank and two thermostats. One for downstairs and one for upstairs radiators. They are battery powered thermostats and this is the cabling behind in the backbox: Can...

One of the planes of glass in my composite front door shattered during the summer. Maybe a temperature issue as nobody damaged it. As it is double glazed, there is just one layer of glass left so not ideal. I contacted IG Doors, the manufacturer and after quite a few weeks of chasing, I have...

Hello, I keep getting the same error showing on my Texecom system, I installed it in April 19 so I am surprised it is already having issues. The error on screen is Charger Fault. If I log in using Wintex, I can see loads of Charger Fault messages in the log starting on 5/8/22 so it is a...

Maybe not a DIY Disaster but a pretty poor way to leave my new fibre install by the BT Openreach engineer. My line is still not hooked up but when I ventured outside to see how the cable had been run, this is what I was greated by. The brick isn't too bad I guess, looks like maybe he turned...

Somehow one of the internal panes in my IG composite door has shattered. As it is double glazed, the front, outside facing pane is still there so the house is secure. I have tried to remove the beading but I am getting stuck wherever there is a circular marking on the beading. Does anyone...