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Hello, My current wall mounted OLED TV has been hardwired into a wall spur outlet, which is connected to a switch on the ring main . At the time it was mounted, I did not realise removing the plug from TVs power cable would invalidate its warranty, so I am keen not make the same mistake when I...

I looking to attach fibreboard to the external walls of my brick faced chalet bungalow. Unfortunately they have been painted over and on one particular wall that faces the weather the paint peels in sections( apparently a Zinsser primer should have been applied first ). Fed up with looking at it...

My central heating engineer seems to think it may be necessary at some point in the future but thought the boiler would work fine for now after the service he carried out on it. The situation is as follows our boiler which is a rebadged Intergas combi ( Atmos) was installed about 12 years ago...

I have a stud wall situated in a loft space which backs on to a couple of bedrooms which i would like to heat insulate. The gap between each stud is approx 400mm (or whatever the imperial conversion is as the house was built in 1930) and the depth is 75 mm. Where is the best place to source it...

One of my toilets has a poor flush, and it has been like that since I bought it . It takes at least 3 flushes before I clear the bowl. The toilet is attached to a vanity unit which matches its cistern box. I am almost inclined to replace it, but that would mean replacing the tiles as well, and...

I had my kitchen refurbished well over a year ago and never had any problems with the ring main which had been installed at the time until a few days ago when the RCCB tripped. With it are associated a number of MCBs so i set about looking for which one of them was responsible, and it turned out...

Hello, I know Thompson dont recommend their One coat Water Seal to be used for such purpose but i wondered if there was an alternative.Thanks

Hello I have a flat roofed garage extension and have noticed heavy condensation on the above appliances.Basically I use the garage as a utility room because it also contains a washer and a dryer. Unfortunately it also gets rather draughty due to the fact the builders left gaps around the...

I have 4 very short length of guttering about a foot long which are attached at right angles to two main lengths of guttering at each end so that the rain water fall down the tiled roof rather than down a wall. It is set out like this because there are no downpipes. For the most part it works...

I have a 4x8 + single garage built 10 years ago and was persuaded to the GRP route for the roofing based on a 25 year guarantee. Unfortunately, when I had a new stove burner installed last Thursday, when the installer cut a hole in the roof to fit the flue he showed me the OSB offcut which...

I just had an estimate from a bespoke kitchen manufacturer and the total for the cabinets including pelmets plinth and cornices came to about £10k .Labour and quarts worktop would add an extra 6k. Appliances, sink, taps I would have to supply myself and they would possibly another £2-3 k...

Hello this wall faces the prevailing weather conditions and has always been a problem to me .I last painted it with Sandtex two years ago and the paint is already showing signs of peeling. Anyway I have spent a day trying to remove as much loose paint and not so loose paint ( in fact it took...

Hi I have wall which I want to line prior to applying emulsion to it but after removing the existing pare which actually came off quite easily, I noticed the top layer of existing emulsion peels off quite easily in certain areas, so I as wondering about covering it with an appropriate primer...

I live in 1930s chalet bungalow and have now almost completed removing all the painted wallpaper in my hallway and stairwell .Only the ceiling remain for which I was advised to have plaster-boarded with the walls being re-plastered. Alarmingly as I remove the paper i noticed some cracks above...

Hello, I have a gap running along the width of the door which is about 15mm in height and was wondering what i can use to to fill or whether i should leave well alone .I have thought about using filler foam but I am inclined to think the gap is there for a reason. The reason I ask is because we...

I had and estimate from a builder/ roofing company to sort out a party wall ( which they call Firewall) because i am getting rather lot of damp near the roof area ,just below the parapet ( we live in terraced Victorian house) and yet everything i read about the product suggest it is for use on...

a short length of guttering about half a metre long was attached, by a corner piece, to the main length running alongside one side of the roof .It was there to direct rainwater onto the sloping tiled roof, in fact i had one at both ends of the guttering and now there is only one after the strong...

I hung such a wallpaper in my bathroom with a view to painting over it with kitchen and bathroom emulsion. Despite several tricky corners, I felt I did a good job with the paper and all went well until i came to paint it. For some reason, it has failed to dry completely (after a year it still...

Last year I re-papered my bathroom with one of those paintable textured vinyl wallpapers and then covered it with three coats of kitchen and bathroom Dulux emulsions only to find to my horror that the paint not only remained sticky but started to peel off. Someone suggested to me that the two...

Its a for a Bush radio .The original broke so I bought this one online from a third party and it descruibed the itej as matching the radio in question .The requirment is 6V DAC 1000milla. whilst the adaptor (which is part of a plug attached to a mains lead) states 6V Dac 2000milla.I...