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Hi, My son wants to put up a wall mounted tv in his flat and I’m trying to think of neatest way to get power to it. The nearest existing power is a double socket above the skirting in the corner of the room. That already feeds a spur which goes in mini trunk to a fused switch which controls a...

Hi, i have a Creda Debonair Compact tumble dryer model 37305. It is a few decades old, but has worked fine until this week and it fits the space we have so don’t want to scrap it just yet. When I rotate the timer knob to switch it on, there is a kind of buzzing noise but no rotation. Hot air...

Planning a refurb of an en suite and one of the issues is mould around the shower and on the ceiling. Room is 1.75m wide x 3.3m long x 2.35 high. Along the long wall the ceiling slopes for about half the width of the room taking the height down to 1.8m. No windows. Currently have a Marley fan...

Hi I’m removing ceramic floor tiles from my bathroom and looking for advice on preparing the surface. I didn’t know what was under the old tiles till I started but seems like it’s 12mm OSB on top of original floorboards. The tiles coming off have left a mess of tile cement and some of the...

I have eight GU5.3 downlighters with individual transformers in a room about 4m x 6m. The lights are fairly standard types with the round wire clips to hold the bulbs in. They’ve been fine for ten years but recently started failing. I’ve replaced two transformers but now two more bulbs have...

Hi, My son at university has moved into a rented flat. The heating and hot water has been working sporadically and they are waiting for the landlord to come and sort it. I had a look yesterday and would appreciate help in clarifying what kind of system this is and how to use it efficiently...

Hi, looking for advice here. I’m changing the hob and have discovered the new job needs the cutout to be 5mm wider. Luckily there is about 8mm overhang on the left side of the existing cutout before the end panel of the next unit so I’d like to enlarge the existing hole by 5mm all along the left...

hi, I have a Baumatic B724SS-A double oven and the timer module has gone faulty. It stopped working, with the display completely blank, and in that state disabled the oven entirely. I switched off the mains, took the oven out and checked the look of the connections etc and everything seemed...

Hi, I'm changing the bearings on my machine as the inner bearing had collapsed. I'm having trouble getting the old ones out. I'm left with the outer race of the larger inner bearing, and the whole of the smaller outer bearing. I've been hammering away at the outer one through from the inside...

I've discovered I have no bonding to gas and water mains. I have run 10mm cable from gas meter to main earth and connected both ends. I've now run the cable to the water supply pipe next to the stop cock. The stop cock and subsequent pipes are chrome. Is it ok to bond to the chrome section or...

My boiler was working fine till yesterday for both water and heating. Now no heating or hot water. The pilot light is fine, I have switched it off and re-lit it and it stays on fine. I've checked the electrical supply to the boiler and it is also fine. When I turn the boiler thermostat knob...

Scottish Power told me they had to fit a new meter as the old one was no longer suitable (the house is about 40 years old, don't know if the meter is original or not). When their engineer came he said he couldn't do it and I would have to change to a modern consumer unit first. He said the meter...

My Marathon Myson boiler has a problem. It seems that when the hot water is on but the heating is off, either because I have it programmed for hot water only, or when the heating is on but the ambient temerature is warm enough not to trip the room thermostat, I get no hot water. However if I...