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We had a Pioneer car stereo fitted in the mrs’ car last year at Halfords In the last couple of months it has started to go off and come back on (as if the power is going for a split second or is rebooting). Music goes off, along with the display on the front panel. It comes straight back on a...

Hi all, Just after a bit of advice. How do you find out what type of service your car needs each year? I only do about 6k miles per year and when I drop it off at the garage each year for a service I tell them how many miles it’s done and leave it with them. I’ve always assumed that a...

Hello all, Wondered if I could get some opinions on the way that damp seems to spread on my garage floor. I went out to the garage this morning for a run on my treadmill and when I first went in the floor was completely dry. As it was raining outside my trainers were a bit wet so I brought a...

Hello all, I put up a towel rail at the weekend and whilst everything seemed straight and level according to the spirit level, alas when it was all screwed in and attached to the wall the right side has ended up a bit lower than the left. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to...

Hi all We need to replace a rotted fence post in the garden and I was just wondering if I could get some advice on the length of post to get. I found that fence posts seem to come in two sizes - 270cm and 300cm. The existing post is 180cm in length above ground - so I'm guessing the 270cm one...

We replaced the flush valve in one of our toilets today. Everything went ok until we put the water back on. When we put it back on water began to leak quite quickly from underneath the isolation valve nut (as indicated in the photo below). So we isolated the water again. We tightened the...

Hi all For the last few days our Ideal Icos HE15 boiler has been firing up even when both the hot water and and heating are in the off position on Drayton programmer. The boiler keeps firing up every 3 minutes. It stays on for a couple of minutes and then goes off again. This cycle continues...

Hi all. Looking for advice on repairing some scratches in the top of our wooden garden table. I've put a couple of photos below. The scratches don't seem too deep but I think they'll need more than a light sand to get them out. Is there any hope for repairing scratches like this? I was...

We’ve got a Humax HDR-1100S box with two cables connected from the dish. Over the last week or so we’ve noticed that the signal has started to drop out (live tv goes off, comes back on, goes off again etc). It actually appears to have gotten worse over the last day or so. I’ve checked to make...

We’ve noticed a very slight leak coming from the bleed valve in one of our upstairs radiators. It only leaks when the heating is off which makes sense as it obviously expands when it’s warm and seals the leak. The leak appears to be coming from the bottom of the hexagonal nut where it goes...

We noticed after arriving back from a weekend away that the ceramic floor tiles in the kitchen are making a crunching/cracking sound when we walk on them. They were fine before we went away. Also, the grout in between some of the tiles has cracked and a couple of the tiles have hairline cracks...

Bit of an odd request but I wondered if anyone could give me any suggestions on this. For the last week or so we've been finding woolly bears (carpet beetles) on one specific side of the bedroom and in the last day in the downstairs toilet. So far we've put carpet beetle powder around the...

We've got a Castle Care Tech Euro Mini alarm system. It's configured so that it emits entry delay countdown beeps if the hallway PIR is activated to give us time to disarm it. Does anyone know if it's possible to delay the countdown beeps at all? It doesn't matter too much about the beeps...

For the last week or so there has been water dripping through the tundish in the airing cupboard. The water exits out a pipe to the rear of the house. Is this normal behaviour for this time of year when the weather is warm and the central heating is not on? I'd be really grateful if anyone...

Hi all. The push button flushing mechanism on the top of one of our toilets has broken and I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on how to replace it? Are these things universal fitting? Presumably its possible to just replace the button mechanism rather than the whole flushing...

On two occasions now (Monday this week AM and PM and again today) we noticed that our boiler was on when it shouldn't have been. Wondered if anyone could shed any light on what might be causing the problem? I noted down everything that I could: 1. The boiler fires up outside the times set on...

I've lifted some slabs up at the bottom of the garden where I'm planning on laying turf to extend the lawn. Underneath the slabs is what I would describe as darkish sand. I dug down about half a foot and it seems to be the same stuff. Will turf grow on this? I was thinking about getting a...

I'm planning on replacing the basin in our downstairs toilet within the next couple of months. It's a bit small so going to upgrade it to a slightly larger cloakroom basin. I also want to fit a single mixer tap rather than a separate hot and cold tap. Fixing the basin to the wall shouldn't...

Hi all. We've just moved house and the central heating/hot water equipment in the airing cupboard is different to what we had before (previously we had a Gledhill Boilermate in the airing cupboard and a Glow Worm boiler in the garage. I was wondering if anyone could give me a basic...

We're going to be moving house soon. I've been looking at the dishwasher pipes under the sink in the kitchen and I was wondering what I would need to attach to the pipe connections when I disconnect the dishwasher's water and waste pipes. The water pipe from the dishwasher (pictured below)...