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Hi, My parents in law complained about a blocked toilet for months. My husband disconnected the bowl from the evacuation pipe and realized that there is at least 1 cm of limescale from the bottom of the bowl right to the exit where it connects to the evacuation pipe in the wall. He had to use...

Hi, I have flaking paint at the bottom of one bathroom wall next to the shower cubicle (rental home, I am the owner). I have been told by the estate agent that this is the result of lack of mist coat under the paint, wall should be scraped, misted and repainted. Bathroom has been totally...

Own a rental. The washing machine and the dryer are in a small room, off the kitchen. This room has been added to the bungalow something like 20 years ago. The walls are single-layer red brick and inside there's no insulation or plasterboard, the brickwork is just painted. There is a flat roof...

I have a Wickes internal wooden bi-fold installed as a cupboard door at the top of the stairs. Tenants keep damaging the rail track at level of the top hinge pin, see picture. First time round, I dismantled the track and turn it left to right. This time it has been damaged again and I will have...

Hi. I am a landlord and rent a bungalow from the 30’. EICR done in 2018 showed only 2 C3. New EICR done last week came back with 13 C2 and 25 C3. A bit of a shock to the system! This has been done by the electrician (big company in Leatherhead) of the estate agent. Agent had asked a quote from...

Hi, We have a 3 years old walk in shower. The silicone between the tiled floor and the tiled walls was getting black and we decided to change it. When we removed it the silicone was properly wet on its hidden side. I would like to think that this is just water which had leaked under the tiles...

Hi, I bought 4 years ago an internal bi-fold door at Wickes, like that : https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Wob...ed-6-Panel-Internal-Bi-fold-Door/p/9000187561 My tenants managed to twist and deform the top rail. Although Wickes sells a replacement track kit, it has been out of stock for months...

Hi, I bought 4 years ago an internal bi-fold door at Wickes, like that : https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Wob...ed-6-Panel-Internal-Bi-fold-Door/p/9000187561 My tenants managed to twist and deform the top rail. Although Wickes sells a replacement track kit, it has been out of stock for months...

Hi, I am in the process of painting a few rooms all re-plastered. Bought some Trade Leyland matt white emulsion. Did undercoat with a mix 50% emulsion 50% water and all went very well. Next day 1st proper coat, no problem and then my 2nd coat ended up in a disaster. The walls against the light...

Hi, I am in the process of painting a few rooms all re-plastered. Bought some Trade Leyland matt white emulsion. Did undercoat with a mix 50% emulsion 50% water and all went very well. Next day 1st proper coat, no problem and then my 2nd coat ended up in a disaster. The walls against the light...

Hi, Old Villeroy & Boch whirlpool bath is unreliable. The small control panel shows: * power light is on: red light when no water, green light when there is water in the bath reaching above the jets. * all the other buttons are off and not working and I cannot start the whirlpool. It was...

Hello, My husband tries to reinforced some joists in a stripped small bathroom. Some parts were rotten due to years of leakage. He plans to install new pieces of wood on each sides of the old joists and to attach the all thing with some coach bolts. First joist: the drill bit is too small to...

Hi, How do I remove glue on plasterboard? I had to remove some cable trunking which was glued to a wall made of a painted plasterboard. In some places a bit of paper came of, in other places there is glue left on the wall. How can I recover that please? Thanks. Letty

Hi all, We are redoing a bathroom. Reached the floor boards and under. We have noticed that the toilet clay drain is damaged, look at the pictures. How do we fix that? Do we have to call a drain specialist? Can we do it ourselves and how? Maybe it does not need to be repaired!? Please tell me...

Hi, I have a huge crack in the kitchen granite worktop starting in front of the sink and expanding both side of the sink over 1 meter maybe. It was a tiny hairline crack 2 years ago so I did not bother. 2 years of tenancy later and the crack is so big that I fear loosing half of the worktop...

Hi, I have a bedroom in a L shape on the ground floor. Until last year the only opening of the room where sliding doors. Because the occupants of the house were rarely opening the doors, mould has form on the other end on the wall where the bed was positioned. I changed the sliding doors for...

Hi, I am cleaning up my bungalow following a rental period. I think I have a problem with the drain. The kitchen sink and the washing machine are connected to the same drain outside right under the kitchen window. It is a 100 year old house so it is done the old fashion way, the 2 evacuation...

Hi, I have a hood which is perfectly aligned with the cooker but not centered in the wall (wall between 2 windows). There is 1.5 cm on the left of the hood and 8cm on the right . See picture. I want to buy a splashback. What width shall I order? Should it be covering the full width of the...

Hi, I am thinking of getting rid of that sectional garage in a couple of years. How shall I proceed? I saw an old thread where someone said he would put the concrete panels in a skip. Can I do that, isn't too heavy to go in a skip? Can someone also tell me if the roof is asbestos just by the...

Hi, I need suggestions about edging. See photos, I have a bungalow under rental, big tarmac drive which has seen better days. There was a stone wall separating the drive from the kerb. Only the first layer of stones are left now. Not nice looking and not practical as stones are being kicked...