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Hey guys. Had a boiler conversion last week and now have a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 4000 combi boiler. Got a quick question about the old flue hole that's left behind by the gas engineer. It's been roughly bricked up internally but we still have cavity wall insulation dropping down. I noticed...

Hi all. Last week we had our central heating converted from a standard system to a combi. The piping is copper throughout our house. As part of this the gas engineer used plastic push fit on 3 or 4 joints as he'd ran out of copper fittings. A couple of these plastic fitting were T's above the...

Hi guys, I have 5 interior moulded doors (like the cheap ones you get from the sheds) and they've all got a bad paint job. I figure I've got two options - replace or strip. I can't sand them as it will take the (fake) grain off them so would a decent chemical paint stripper work, or my...

Hi all, A couple of weeks ago I had a professional sparky extend a couple of spurs so that I could move some sockets around. He was a decent chap and did the job for what I though was a decent price (£60). My question is that after doing some reading I found out that blue butt crimps...

Hi all, I had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon when I was steaming some paint off a wall in our lounge. When I moved the steamer across a hole drilled by the previous owners it started to spark and cackle so I immediately knew what was wrong and turned the mains off. Basically the...

Hi all, In the next few days I'm having a stud wall put up over an existing brick wall to hide some unsightly copper pipes. On this wall I have a double socket and a transformer (powered straight off the mains via a fused connection unit) to power a doorbell. What I actually want to and...