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Hi, I wonder if anyone can cast light on this issue. I had a plumber in the other day as I want to remove the old potterton boiler and place a new combi boiler upstairs out of the way or in the loft like we did with our old place. The plumber said the only boiler I could buy was a...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can cast some light on a problem I am having with my Halstead Eden CBX 32 combi boiler. The central heating works fine but the hot water does not heat up. Initially I discovered that it could of been a blocked filter in the heat exchanger but when I run the hot water...

Hi, Looking for advice on how I can make good this gap as illustrated in the picture below. There was a door frame in there originally to house and external door but an extension means that the whole wall is now internal. The white side to the left was the original external wall...

Hi, Looking for some advice on the following procedure. I want to remove a light switch (2way) from the middle of the hall (bungalow) to the end of the hall outside the bathroom. Now at the moment the switch is one of those horrible ones with a box and the cable running up the outside of...

Hi all. I have just replaced a 2 way light switch in my hall and am having problems getting it to work properly. I removed an old light switch and tried to replace the wires like for like but it was a different format. Here is the switch after I have attached the cables. The switch...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can offer me advice on the following issue. Ok first the history. When we moved in our kitchen had a three way switch fitted but only 2 lights one in the ceiling and one under the units so at the time I thought the third one was reduntant. On having a new kitchen...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can offer me some advice. I was asked round to a friends house last night (i sold it too her earlier in the year) because the hot water bath tap is not coming on anymore. It seems to hardly turn as much as I remembered it but the sink hotwater tap is working fine...

Hi, I have some real wood bamboo flooring to fit in my living room using self adhesive underlay. Could someone please offer some advice on the following questions; (a) The guy at the store where I bought the self adhesive underlay said I didn't need to use a damp proof membrane. On the...

Hi, I need to move my washing machine a bit into the utility room but want to use the original water supply. The problem is the pipes will not be long enough. I have been to B@Q but they only have 2.5 m lines or 25 m ones!!! I was thinking of just buying a 2.5 m line and cutting in half to...

Hi, I am hoping to have a new kitchen fitted in a couple of months but wonder if anyone can offer any advice. Is it as simple as measuring the kitchen area and taking this information to a retailer. They will then design the kitchen around the figures using computer aided design packages...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can give me some advice on my lawn which is in a bit of a mess............... Its not a big lawn maybe 20-25 m2 with a nice cherry tree in the middle and surronded by a big 8ft hedge. In some patches it is very mossy and I am putting this down to bad/drainage and...

Hi, A few years ago I had all the windows in my house replaced with double glazing apart from the kitchen when already had a double glazing window installed. The problem is I think at the time the double glazing company fitting my new windows mistakenly took away my keys for the kitchen...

Hi all, Just removed my cistern which is the type that sits directly on the back of the toilet bowl. The reason I removed this, as when you flushed the toilet clean water leaked from this region so i though it was the rubber/foam seal that seals the union between the bowl and the base of the...

Hi, Just noticed my toilet is leaking slightly from the underside of the join to the soil pipe. My plan is to drain the water, and remove the bowl from the soil pipe thus being able to investigate. I expect the toilet is the original one when the house was built 15 yrs Ok so may be a tad...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can offer some advice on this enquiry. I recently laminated my living room floor which all went swimmingly apart from one tricky problem. I have a spiral stairway in my house which is supported by a couple of beams fixed to the floor. Now the fixings are square with...

Hi, I want to replace the white grout around my shower as it has seen better days. I have a packet of Unibond water resistant grout in the house but it says add the whole 500g to 175ml of water. Now I wont need that much and yes I can scale down the ammounts if need be. My question is does...

Hi, Just taken off the old plastic coving round the bath to replace it as it was old and needed freshing up. Now at the back of my bath there was always cut off tiles running parallel to the back of the bath and sealed round the edges of wall/bath. I always wondered why they were there but...

Hi, I want to regrout some tiles round my shower/bath that have become a bit dull looking. I have never grouted before but am keen on some useful advice. I have a grout rake and I was going to take off a layer and simply grout over the top after cleaning with methylated spirits or...

Hi, I am looking for some advice before I start a project in spring replacing a path i have in my garden. The aforementioned path allows access to my house from the pavement down a slight decline onto a flat paved base leading upto my front door. At the moment I have paving slaps maybe 6...

Hi, I currently have an electric shower installed over my bath but being only 7.4 kW and a tad old it has really had it's day. I want to install a new shower, well when I say I, I don't mean personally. I want to get some suitably qualified person in, advertising in the local paper (Cardiff)...