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Hi all, Just a quick one, i think i know the answer but thought its worth the try. The bathroom extractor needed replacing and it would appear ive bought the wrong one. Our old one came on when the bathroom light was turned on and has 3 connectors - a permanent live, a switched live and a...

A long story short, we have a Hotpoint TCM580 dryer (14 months old) and the drum has stopped spinning. When looking on the internet there are various problems that it could be and we'd have to get someone to come out and have a look at it to diagnose and fix.....would it be better to just cut...

Evening all, Weve had a Hotpoint Dishwasher FDL570 for 3-4 years and tonight it stopped working mid cycle. All of the lights started flashing on the front and since then it will not start or finish a cycle, it just appears stuck. Doing some troubleshooting online caused me to pull the...

Evening all, We live in a "new build" barratt house and my wife wants to paint the front door black. I honestly dont know what its made of so ive enclosed a pic in the hope someone knows what type of front door Barratt use. It would be great if someone could advise me how to prep the door and...

Morning all, Its a fairly straight forward question which im pretty sure I know the answer to but id like to check first before I pay and get someone in. I have a single socket in the kitchen which I am going to change to a double. From this i'd like to add a spur which will go outside to a...

Hi all, we've way too many extension leads charging and running our ever increasing electronic items so today is the day im adding a couple of new sockets. I just have a couple of questions if anyone could answer - Looking at the pic included, this is the downstairs (living room) ring...

Evening all, A couple of weeks ago our room thermostat stopped working. Long story short I bought an exact replacement, a Siemens RAA20. I wired it up and off it went working fantastic. Its only been on a week but its stopped working already grr?! We live in a 3 storey house with a barely...

Evening all I wonder if someone could help, I just went to run a cold tap and it was at about half the pressure it was an hour ago. I went upstairs and checked the water pressure in the system and it was only at about 0.75 bar so I opened the valves to get more pressure but there was...

Evening all, My mum has the above dishwasher and is complaining that it is not cleaning the dishes properly and it is also leaving a residue on the glasses afterwards. She uses Quantum Finish Powerball tablets and has tried the Finish Rinse Aid but to no avail. I obviously dont expect a...

Evening all, Something I am not sure is a problem tbh but as my neighbour commented to me today I think it is now worth the extra investigation. We live on a relatively new Barratt estate and have an Ideal ICOS boiler HE12 I think. All houses on the estate were fitted with these as far as I...

Afternoon all :) I am coming to the painting of our bannister and I am just looking for any tips etc to get a good finish if anyone would be so kind. We live in a new build barratt house (6 years old) and its finally time to tackle the staircase. Here are a couple of pics of what I am...

Afternoon all, I am just after some re-assurance that I am doing things correct and would really appreciate some tips or advice if needed. I live in a 3 story town house, fairly new build (6 years) with radiators in every room. We have an ideal ICOS condensing boiler (He12 I think) and...

Hiya all, I have an Ideal ICOS condensing boiler (HE12 I think) and I have no Central Heating today :x The boiler is sat in 0 mode but when I request heating via the thermostat the boiler doesnt click on or even look like it has been asked to do anything. Any ideas please? When I...

Evening all, You will have to firstly excuse me, I know nothing about boilers etc I am more posting to see just how expensive this could be and what plan of action to take.....if indeed there is one ofcourse. Long story short...boiler is 6 years old...brand new barratt house. Lastnight my...

Afternoon all 8) I wonder if someone could help me? My boiler (HE12 I think) is yet again having problems but this time it doesnt appear to be as bad as before as the boiler itself is actually lighting. We only noticed the problem lastnight as the radiators stopped working and it came in...

Afternoon all, I wonder if someone would be kind enough to offer abit of advice 8) I have an ICOS Ideal Standard HE12 condensing boiler/heating system and I woke up this morning and unfortunately the hot water isnt working. There is no fault being shown on the user controls but when I run...

Hi all, I posted about a year ago regarding my boiler when I was unfortunately getting the FL error on the display with no central heating etc. In the end Barratts came out and unblocked the condensate trap and it worked fine. My old thread (incase you are interested)...

Hi, I was hoping someone could give me some advice regarding our Whirlpool Cooker, model - AKZ 451? 8) My wife was cooking in it today and everything was working fine until the power switch for the oven tripped :? She had to flick the fuse back on at the main fuse box in order to get it...

Hiya, I will start by saying hello (my first post of no doubt many more :roll: ) and I am useless with anything to do with DIY, probably a good idea I found this website lol I currently have a problem with our boiler and I just dont understand it :? We moved into a new house last year...