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Hi all, I'd appreciate some advice on painting a masonry sill. The existing paint was pretty flaky to I started scraping and in parts managed to get right down to the bare masonry. I'm wondering now if I should try to strip the complete sill back but that will be pain as a lot is sound. If...

Hi all, In took it upon myself to take apart and replace tap washers on bathroom taps that drip unless they closed very tightly. Having loosened and unscrewed the large nut I expected to be able to remove the cartridge and remove and replace the washer. However it seems like the lower part of...

Hi All, I'd appreciate some views on what these white spots are, what I need to do to remediate and should I be concerned?

The Pump on my oil boilder is not always receiving power. Sometimes when I turn my heating on only the top (first) radiator will heat. Other times everyone radiator will heat up. I have checked with a phase tester the times when only one rad is heating up and no power is being sent to the pump...

A couple of weeks ago I had a heating problem where only the upstaris radiators would heat. So I replaced what I believed to be a faulty circulation pump. This worked great for over a week until today when once again only upstairs rad is heating up. It seems that that pump has failed again...

Hi, I have an isolation switch for my Horstmann timer unit which controls an oil boiler. What size fuse should be used in the isolation switch? It is currently a a 13amp, i would have thought I should have been 3 or 5amp. And could the above 13amp fuse have anything to do with a new...

Hi all, I have just fitted a new basin tap (hot), suitable for all supply pressures. However it takes about 2 full turns before the water flows. Is there anything I can do about this? The old tap that I replaced did not have this problem. Thanks

Hi, I hope someone can help. I need to turn the mains water off in my house. I have located what I believe to be the mains stop tap but am not sure. It is a capped upright pipe with a tap near the top. Is this a mains tap? Also - its proving impossible to shut off. Seized. Any suggestions...