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We recently noticed droppings in our garage so went ahead and got a couple of rat traps (we thought they were rats, turns out there were mice). Since getting the traps we've been catching between 2-4 mice per night for the last few days and so far we've caught a total of 17 mice. I've been...

My wife bought some Dulux matt red paint for our sons bedroom. I've painted one wall with it, but to me it is far too reflective for a matt paint and wondered if this was normal with Dulux paints? Our whole house it painted with Matt paint (different brands) and none of them reflect light like...

I have a couple of office storage units in our home office, covered in textured melamine with an ABS edge banding. It's currently a beach/maple colour and I'd like to paint it white rather than replace the units. I'm concerned though that the paint isn't really going to stick to the melamine...

Boiler is a Potterton Performa HE30 Upstairs we have; - Boiler - (1) Mixer shower - (2) Mixer tap on sink Downstairs we have; - (3) Kitchen mixer tap (9 litres/m - cold) - (4) Bathroom mixer tap (9 litres/m - cold) - (5) Bath tap (mixer style but has two knobs) (13 litres/m - cold) EDIT...

We have a bathroom basin which needs a new waste fitting, however I can't seem to find a bathroom waste which is suitable for the overflow on the sink. For some reason image attachments are not working, so here's the link to the photo http://www.image-share.com/upload/3589/71.jpg I've tried...

I'm planning on tiling our kitchen floor soon, and wondered if someone could recommend an electric tile cutter that's suitable for 60 x 60 floor tiles? I was planning on using a manual tile cutter for straight cuts, and an electric cutter for doing other cuts, which I'll need a few odd cuts to...

I'm not sure if this is the correct sub-forum for this question but here goes. One of our neighbours has block paved a space that according to the land registry doesn't belong to the property. I've attached a crude drawing of what the property layout would have originally been like, with the...

About 4 year or so ago we had a landscape gardener out who put up a new fence, some paving, and re-turfed the lawn. Last year I noticed yellow patches so I put some some grass seed and some lawn feed, I think however I may have applied too much lawn feed as it seemed to leave more dead patches...

We've been talking about replacing the kitchen worktop for a while now, currently it's just wood effect laminate (38mm) that I think we got from B&Q. We like the look of granite but it's a little on the expensive side. We've come across some places that offer a granite overlay and I had some...

We have a treadmill that keeps tripping off the RCD when plugged in in the garage, but it doesn't trip of the RCD when connected to a plug in the house (via an extension). The garage and the downsides sockets in the house have their own RCD's. We've recently had an electrician out who was...

Bought a treadmill off ebay last night. I saw it working fine before I bought it. When I've got the treadmill home and set it up in the garage it runs for about 10 - 15 seconds or so and then trips the RCD for the garage. I'm guessing there's an earth leakage on the treadmill somewhere...

We ripped out our kitchen yesterday and have found a corner of the room is damp on the floor. In that corner is where the waste pipe from the upstairs bathroom enters the floor. We suspect there is a problem under the concrete but we don't know what type of person we ring to fix this? Is it...

We're working on our bathroom at the minute, which for some reason has a step down about a 3rd of the way in. The step down is approx 1 1/2". I've kind of ruled out self levelling compound as we'd need a hell of a lot of it. Someone has suggested screwing down 1" plywood, then maybe a...

We've got a single drive which we'd like to extend to a double. There is no path outside of our house, and from what I can see the kerb outside of our well shows as within our boundaries. Does anyone know, if we want to extend the drive, would we need to seek planning permission of any...

I've ripped out our bathroom and want to test the hot water pressure. I've bought a pressure gauge from b & q and attached it to the end of the hot water pipe. When I turn the water supply to the house back on, the needle moves from below zero, to zero. Surely we must have some water...

We've got a combi boiler (Potteron Performa 30HE). We're seen a new shower we'd like http://www.wickes.co.uk/Quad-Shower-Cabin-with-Monsoon-HeadRoof/invt/160602 From what I am aware, our boiler won't be able to provide the necessary pressure to the shower (or am I wrong?) Wicks have...

We had an offer accepted on a property, a survey was done and reported that there were no signs of movement and no further investigations were needed. The lender has decided to do an audit valuation, and this has found there are cracks in the mortar of the exterior walls. There are instances...

We've got a 2 bed terraced house, and over the last year or so we've had this smell in the bathroom, it's kind of foisty, sometimes its there, sometimes its not. We've tried all sorts to try and figure out what's causing the smell, but to be honest, we can't find anything at all. The...