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Just had a go at getting the light grey grout between my kitchen floor tiles clean again. I tried lightly sanding a section of the grout and it has come up a treat. However, before I consider doing the whole kitchen, I want to seal the grout afterwards. Any recommendations for a good brush on...

Seems a strange one this but someone might have an explanation. Got a text from Son in Law this morning saying he had lost all of the sockets on a downstairs circuit. He said the breaker for the circuit was still showing ON. He lives 200 miles away so no way I can pop round to have a look so I...

Decided to take a few inches off the bottom of a bathroom roller blind due to some mould marks on the blind. Done this before for roller blinds but have never seen the type of bottom rail fitted to this one (see photo). After the struggle I had getting the rail off and cleaning the glue off, it...

I have had a few instances recently where it seems that tradesmen are not interested in small jobs. I tried to get someone to re-turf a smallish lawn (25sqm). Had three companies come and look but none got back to me. Even when I chased them up. Now I am trying to get a tree tidied up, not a...

In a previous post, I described at length the myriad of problems I was having after switching suppliers to Octopus. Well, toward the end of last year, things seemed to have been sorted, my meters were being remotely read correctly and all the previous billing errors seemed sorted. Then around...

I think this has been asked before but there wasn't any sensible answer. The fittings on my toilet pan that locate the quick release seat are sliding around and no matter how much I clean the pads and tighten the screws, it still slides around. When I removed them for the first time since the...

My current toilet seat which was fitted new three years ago has pretty much stopped soft closing. I have been looking for a replacement but I am having trouble because of the shape. It is not square but tapers slightly from front to back (see drawing). All the seats I have found are "square"...

A neighbour asked me if I could have a look at his Icon 12v bathroom fan over the weekend. It had been installed a few years ago with the "run on" timer module fitted. Previously it had run on for about 10 minutes after switching off the light but was now running indefinitely. He assumed that...

I am considering using a water butt to supply my Karcher K3 pressure washer. This is with a view to using some of the copious amounts of water we get from the sky in Cumbria rather than from the tap. I always find that rain water cleans the car better as well. Apparently the K3 supports drawing...

I have a couple of lengths of 6mm chrome plated steel bar that I want to bend. The bend is not tight, only about 30 degrees at most. Will cold bending damage the plating at all. If so, would hot bending be better or would this also damage the plating?

My wife made a remark the other day about how her dad always told her not to drink cold water from the bathroom tap. My first thought was that this was a throwback to the days of lead pipework. However, I had a look at diagrams for domestic water systems and saw some where the downstairs cold...

I am going to redo the silicone between the bottom of my aluminium shower cubicle and the white shower tray. I just have a couple of questions: The sealant is currently clear but I have seen instances where white has been used. What do people generally prefer? I want to use one of the plastic...

I have only become aware of the differences between silicone sealants so want to make sure I use the correct ones when I redo a lot of the sealant in my bathroom. My main issue is what to use to seal around the shower cubicle which is anodized aluminium. Should I use a neutral, non acidic type...

With regard to the attached pictures, is it an easy job to remove this glass shower panel? Is it a case of removing the top and bottom clamps and then easing it from the seal along the right hand edge. The shower was installed around three years ago and I have just read in the fitting...

I had a new shower cubicle installed (not very well with hindsight) a couple of years ago. I recently noticed there was mould behind the clear sealant between the shower tray and the bottom frame. This is on part of the curved area and at a point where there is a small gap between the frame and...

I have some small areas of corrosion on an anodised aluminium shower surround frame. I think these have been caused by soap/bathroom cleaner getting trapped under a section of sealing strip. I have cleaned them out and they are similar to stone chips on a car. I want to fill these will something...

Four years ago we started hanging some 16" half round baskets along a fence. For the first two years we had a really good display with plenty of flowers. However, the last two years have been disappointing with sparse growth and a lot less flowers. The plants are always bought from the same...

Just bought the other half a new Samsung Galaxy phone to replace her old Galaxy. The SIM and SD card are the same size so we will just swap them to the new phone. Will this transfer everything across? We will make sure that any pictures in internal storage are saved to the SD card but is there...

I want to disable shopping notifications on my Echo Show 8 so that my other half doesn't see any gifts I have bought her. When I ask the question online, it says to do this via the Alexa app that I used to set the unit up originally. However, having a screen, the Echo Show can be set up without...

Can anyone give me a rough idea of the cost of an annual service on a Worcester Bosch Greenstar boiler? Our boiler was installed some years ago and has been serviced by a WB engineer every year since then. We have a service contract, the cost of which has been creeping up and is now around £50...