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*sigh* things just get from bad to worse. bath is new, less than a year old and the person hired to decorate appears to have splashed emulsion at the bottom. Not trusting him to fix the problem on his own, what should he be doing to remove the emulsion so I can check that he's doing it...

Help please :( Decorator removed a radiator yesterday to paint the skirting boards. So I topped up the pressure and reset the boiler but it didn't work. The OH fiddled with it and now it just cuts out. He's topped up the boiler too much (the pressure gauge is between 2-3 bar) :shock...

We're attempting to lay our first floor. The floor is small, 160cm width and 200cm length at the widest It's a concrete sub floor, one corner is having the self-levelling compound again (even though builder assured us that it wouldn't need to be done but that's by the by). The rest of the...

Hi all Trying to sort out the plumbing for the kitchen and just realised that the sink cutout is only 8cm from the edge of the wall. Also, the tap hole cutout is only 5 cm from the sink cutout. Will that be ok or are they too close together and will crack the granite? Thanks lovely peeps

Please help, we plugged something into the new outside socket and tripped the new rcd box, we turned everything back on and there is no electricity in the house still. Pic shows rcd as it currently, please advise

Stripped the wallpaper, and then some of the paint under the wallpaper flaked off with it. The rest of the paint isn't coming off with a scraper. I've tried sanding (home orbital sander) a bit of the wall (picture 1) and it seems to come out ok. But there is a lot of wall and this is only...

Getting a new shower unit in a corner of the bathroom. Will be approx 1200mm x 1200mm (more or less). Boiler will be in loft, directly above the bathroom (same wall for the shower), looking for an external thermostatic mixer that can be exposed, don't really want to box the pipes in. All...

Does it matter if they are VAT registered or not? Had a few quotes and all of them included VAT bar one who said he wasn't. He was cheapest (due to not charging VAT). Any advice?

Hi all, We're in the process of replacing things in the house and the back boiler has to go. We've had 4 quotes and am planning to go with one but he installs viessmann. I've read plenty of threads on here and it seems to be highly regarded so think we'll be ok. The main question is if...