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Hi I’ve had a Bristan shower installed with recessed control unit with 3 knobs. I thought that the top one would switch between the two shower heads I have; the middle would be heat (which it is); and the bottom would be flow rate. The way it’s been plumbed in the top knob switches between the...

I have a Mira sport Airboost shower. The unit is turning on but no waters coming out and the light on the low power button is just flashing… Any ideas? Thanks

Hi I live in a Victorian terrace house with stone bays and window surrounds in Bristol. The paints gone flakey and needs removing and ideally I’d have it properly restored but I’m in the middle of a loft conversion so no money to do that at the moment. But I want to make the most of having the...

Hi I have a Victorian terrace house with a narrow side return alley between the kitchen and boundary wall. The boundary wall is about 2.2m tall and only about 1.3m from my property. I want to use the space to store stuff under cover, so I was thinking of putting a glazed roof over the top so...

Hi. I have an insinkerator 3 in 1 F-H3N1 which when you use the hot (boiling) water tap, cold water has started coming out of the vent hole on the tap. The instructions suggests this could be a result of a blocked outlet hose but I’ve checked and can’t see that it’s blocked. After running it a...

Hi I have an integrated bell washing machine that’s just over 2 years old. It’s just started leaking a lot of water so I took it out and had a look tonight. Checked all the obvious pipe connections, drum seal, tray etc but it seems to be coming from the back of the machine, right hand side when...

Hi My wife’s just started working from home and needs a desk to work at. She wants it built into an alcove to give her maximum space. My question really was what’s the best material to use for it? Some have suggested paint Ming MDF but I’m concerned that this will get scratched (she has lots of...

Hi I have a Laura Ashley light chandelier fitting that suddenly stopped working. I’ve checked that the fees into it is ok and have re-wired a standard pendent fitting in its place as a temporary stop gap until I manage to fix or replace the chandelier. I think the reason why the chandelier...

Hi I've just bought a new light for the hallway which has a metal fixing and candelabra. I need to replace the existing plastic pendant fitting but the new light has only come with one junction box for the neutral, live and earth wires. The old pendant light fitting has all of the existing...

Hi I've recently had my hallway tiled and the tiler trimmed the door to make it open. This has resulted in a big gap under the door of about 1.2cm under the inside of the door on one side but the other side has no gap. On the front of the door the gap is about 4cm on one side, reducing to 3cm...

Hi My shower has broken (keeps on cutting out 5 mins into a shower) and i need to replace it. I've got a 40amp fuse and a 10mm cable with an 80A30mA RCD. I want as powerful a shower as possible and my electrician that has just done a lot of work on the house (but has now finished) said i could...

Hi I have a large brick retaining wall between my and my neighbours garden. My neighbors garden is about 1m higher than ours and we have painted the wall but there are signs of damp coming through the wall so we want a permanent solution. We'd love to have the wall rendered but will this work...

Hi My parents have a beach hut which is an old style stone and concrete construction with a solid concrete slab roof. There are a few cracks around the join between the walls and roof and a crack in the roof which is letting rain in. Any ideas on what I can use to fill the gaps and make it...

Hi I'm currently having my kitchen re-done in my Victorian terrace house. This has involved taking off the plasterboard from one of the walls (which has been studded-out) and has uncovered the fact that we don't have any wall insulation behind it. So we've now been given the option of putting...

Hi I have a victorian house where the front two rooms have been knocked together with an archway between them. I now want to split the two rooms with folding doors so that we can either use them as separate rooms or keep it as one big space. I've attached a photo of the archway and would be...

Hi I am planning a side return extension to my Victorian terrace house. The side wall is 7m long so we'll need a rsj this long to open up the whole side of the house. Our structural engineer hasn't done the detailed calculations yet but says it would probably need to be approximately 450mm deep...

Hi I live in a Victorian terrace house where the stairs are along the side of the hall that is the internal dining room wall rather than the side which is the wall with next door (see photo). As part of other building works we are doing to the kitchen it would be beneficial if we could move the...

Hi I recently had a radiator changed in an upstairs bedroom and thought I'd use the one that was removed downstairs . I've tried to replace it, but that seems to be a piece missing that would screw into the radiator and over the valve. Can anyone tell me what the missing part is? I assume I can...

Hi We have a real problem with our upstairs bathroom sink tap. Every time we turn it on and it starts to get hot water through it, it starts clunking really fiercely and the water comes out in spurts. If you turn the tap slightly either way it stops at clunking. We are running off a Worcester...

Hi I live in a victorian terrace house on a fairly steep hill in bristol. We've got a nice big kitchen we want to fit in a utility room and downstairs wc so are looking to extend into the side return. The side return is about 7m long and 1.3m wide with the boundary wall about 10ft high...