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Due to my location I endure relatively frequent power cuts which can last for hours, if not days. What is the best way to power my ONT and router in the event of a power failure lasting for at least 6 hours or more? This would primarily be for phone use and mainly to handle incoming calls from...

I'm just thinking of a short-ish, 30cm rail to fit to the tiled wall that the bath butts up against. Are there any makes to avoid or go for?

My toilet cistern has a siphon very much like the following (picture below - the only difference is that mine doesn't have that elongated blue 'slider' on the side) but otherwise it's a Derwent MacDee Metro 3-Part Siphon...

M latest Osram LEDVANCE floodlight is starting to fail on me (very dim output) but because of the way it's sealed it's impossible to get inside the damn thing. So it's time to buy another flood light. I have two like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FNN5BFC but while that one in...

The seat of my five year old wooden bench has developed a soft spot in one of the slats, see photo. I was going to gouge it out and perhaps fill it with something suitable but the area either side of it for two or three inches is also slightly soft. To give some sense of scale to the photo...

The title says it all really, any recommendations or tips please?

My fridge has just reached 10 Celcius as part of its defrost cycle - it's occasionally gone through phases before where it's sometimes reached 8 or 9 but 10 is a new record and it's not THAT warm in my kitchen (24 C which it's often reached of late). As I type this I hear the compressor has just...

I have an old, small metal milk churn (must be about 16" high, about 10" diameter at its widest point). It's filled with water and the dog drinks from it. However, the churn has sprung a leak - there's a small crack that's about half an inch long - the leak has been intermittent because there's...

I"m still pondering whether to get a generator (for emergency use only) but I'd like to get an expert (not some glorified sales person) to visit my property and so get some good, unbiased advice and recommendations as to the type that's suitable for me and where to place it. I have an old, very...

Have looked in the manual and online but so far can only see the heating related output, but what is the electric power consumption likely to be?

I need to replace a 3m length of waste water pipe (it takes water from the shower) but the outside diameter of my outdoors pipe seems to be 37mm. Yet I can't find 37mm online ....... is that not made any more?

This started happening a few days ago, it's random - boiler switches on for a while and then switches off, even though the timer hasn't kicked in. Timer lights are NOT on when this happens. Timer issue perhaps? Or something else? The boiler is a Danesmoor 15/19

One of my UPVC doors is over 20 years old, for years it's had a problem where the upper 'barn door window' doesn't 100% stay fully closed in one upper corner. The door also faces south and flexes a little in the heat of the sun which means that the severity of the problem varies. It's the type...

I have some mats like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09S3NW4GR they are on carpet and of course slip, slide and buckle up a fair bit. What's the best way to prevent this? Some suitable double sided carpet tape, or is there anything better? Does anyone have any particular recommendations?

Thought it best to make a new thread given that some of the circumstances have changed, this new thread continues on from the following: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/shower-room-extractor-fan-used-to-turn-on-and-off-via-the-light-switch-but-now.644656/ So I installed a replacement fan -...

The light switch outside the small shower room also turns on the extractor fan on the shower room ceiling. Or rather it used to, now when I turn on the light switch the light comes on but not the fan, to then turn on the fan I need to stand on a stepladder and pull the pull cord attachment on...

I've had a garden bench like the following for a few years: https://www.diy.com/departments/simply-wood-churchill-3-seater-garden-bench/5060749291492_BQ.prd My problem is that it's become less rigid of late in the horizontal plane (so it moves side to side a bit too much) - I tightened the...

The shower in my bathroom hasn't been used for years but yesterday I checked it out to make sure it was still functional - it was and the shower pump in the airing seems okay (but noisy, as it always was). However, since that test I'm now often (but not always) finding that after using any hot...

I want to repaint just a small part of my lounge but need to get the same colour to avoid having to do it all. Are there any kind of paint sample strips that I can obtain to match it up with? The current paint seems like it could be some shade of magnolia.

While I can perfectly understand the use of frozen gel packs with delivered frozen goods, disposal of them is not necessarily easy. I have a septic tank which means that I can't just flush the contents of the packs down the drain and then put the plastic out with my recycling, so how do I deal...