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I have a front door with two wired glass panels. The lower panel is cracked and needs to be replaced. Wired glass is quite resistant to breaking and so prevents entry. But it is no longer made so what are the best options for replacement. It does not need to be seen through so plywood...

AEG Electric oven will not unlock its door after a pyrolitic cleaning cycle. It tries to unlock and makes a clicking noise at top left corner but does not unlock. The oven is only about 8 months old but owner seems to have lost all her paperwork. So should be covered by warranty. But what...

This was sent to me by a friend. You will see in the video that the soil pipe disappears into a bricked off corner. This is on the first floor of a four story of a block built around 1900. Above the soil pipe there is another pipe coming up and bending back towards the vertical soil stack...

A lady that I know has converted two upstairs bedroons into self contained with electric showers and WC and basins for letting. She has a partial basement with three CUs and the 6mm T&E shower cables disappear into the underfloor in the basement. There is no indication of where the cables for...

I have not used it for a while and now when I turn it on it comes up with a brightly coloured screensaver page but will not do anything else. Control+Alt+Delete do nothing. I can turn it on and off but nothing at all else. Does anyone else have any ideas? Tony

I am asking on behalf of a landlord whose tenant has reported a problem. They have an electric oven which apparently trips the MCB regularly. Perhaps every 10 to 15 minutes. That would imply to me that the oven element is taking too much current and tripping the MCB. My question is "is it a...

I few years ago I used to occasionally rent a car locally which was very convenient and reasonably priced. The idea was if you had a spare car or did not use your car all the time you could rent it out. It all worked on the internet and when you had booked one you went to it and put your code...

I found this in a skip. A length of plastic trunking with a purpose made push in plug in the end. Does anyone know where these can be purchased?

This landlady has a lodger whose room door handle is falling off because the wood door has oversized screw holes. Many years ago "Plastic Wood" might have been used to fill the over sized screw holes but in my experience it would have not been an adequate repair as it did not have enough...

I have a friend who is an old actor who still likes to do a few jobs each week. His house is pretty cluttered. A few weeks ago he returned home after a few days to find water leaking from the loft. He called the neighbour and then me. I helped them turn off the loft water. The next day I...

I had to visit a friend's rented out small flat a couple of days ago to look at his water heating. His flat was built in 1909 and the electrical system was very antiquated indeed. During 2020 he had a new consumer unit fitted. It looks pretty cheap and the only obvious brand name seems to be...

The heater fan fuse/resistor package seems to have failed but accessing it is being a problem. I think that I have removed all the screws and fixings but the right hand side of the cover assembly is still not coming off and I cannot see any more fixings to be removed. I have watched a few...

I went yesterday to assess a situation where water leaking into a flat had tripped the kitchen ring main and the tenant did not want to reset it. The landlady had worked out that the gutter had been leaking and water somehow entered the property. She got the gutter cleaned and it is no longer...

The passenger door will not unlock, as far as I can guess, based on the feel of the handles. This is annoying but even more so when you really need the door to open to actually inspect the lock mechanism. Any suggestions as to what the actual problem might be? Or ay suggestions how to get it...

There are many jobs that women manage to avoid. I have only once had a take away delivered by a ( Chinese ) lady. You never see a female doing groceries delivery. Perhaps because it is relatively hard work? I have only once seen a woman refuse collector. Women drive buses because they are...

Yesterday I was helping a friend to get a faulty cut out ( main incoming supply fuses ) replaced by the DNO. It was reported to the DNO that the cut out had failed at 0600hrs. They said they had a target response time of three hours. The first to arrive came on his own at 0950. He said that...

There are a lot of firms wanting to sell storage batteries/inverters in order to enable solar power generated during the day to be used after dark in the evenings. A simple look at this makes me think that this will never be financially beneficial. Lets assume you already have say 6 kW of...

My older 2001 Peugeot 307 petrol 1.6 is now only doing about 29 mpg with a lot of in town driving. I am sure that before the E10 petrol it used to do about 39 mpg. Otherwise it seems to work fine and not have any obvious engine problems. Is that a typical mpg which a smaller family car is now...

I have just avoided taking a large fabric bag of grass cuttings to the front for collection by the Council. I have found a squarish bin a little shorter than a wheelie bin to be used as a compost bin. My questions are is it best to cover it? If so gastight with polythene or just a loose...

This is an annoying fault that has just developed. The door is stuck closed and the internal and external handles have virtually no resistance when pulled. As if a linkage common to both has come apart. Does anyone recognise that fault and know what the solution is? Next does anyone know...