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I have some rather large holes between my garage and main house where previous owners/contractors have installed pipes and electric cables (boiler and meters in the garage area) - half a brick width with some cables to the upstairs underfloor - a whole brick removed for CH/Water to upstairs...

Had some tapping and scratching/gnawing sounds in the ceiling but not seen any physical evidence so put a camera in the eaves storage and caught the culprit. Camera didn't get a great view unfortunately - I have tweaked the positioning and will see if I get another shot (and I've ordered some...

When I went around the back of the house the other day I noticed all this felt hanging off the bricks. I don't know the history of this and if it was put there to fix another problem. In the short term, what's the best thing to reattach it to the brickwork? Any thoughts why it might have been...

I've a couple of windows like this - where they have been sealed with mortar (its hard and brittle) which is now crumbling off. I'm not sure if the bottom was also the same but previous owners have tried to replace it with frame sealant as that's pretty ropey too. What's the best thing to do...

I've just replaced three LV ceiling spots with 240V LED units and discovered this slightly concerning connection :eek: There were three lamps daisy chained off the transformer but looks like that should have been ok for the transformer (although when I've replaced others like this they've had...

Our 26 month old (2 yr guarantee) microwave decided to stop heating this weekend, although it makes all the usual noises/sounds but power usage is only around 200W. I've tested the HV diode ok, the HV transformer gets a supply when it should, but the big 1.0uF capacitor is reading (discharged...

Although nothing official in the UK, there must be some niggling concerns about energy supply this winter. Germany putting in place lots of restrictions already (obv more reliant on russian gas but still interesting to see action being taken now) and Gordon Brown hinting at potential shortages...

I have a bungalow with a dormer on one side (existing when we moved in a couple of years ago). I've just noticed some water drops on some of the GU10 ceiling light fittings under the flat dormer roof and all the lamps are really warm (switched off). The sun is blazing today and that room is 25C...

I have removed a small shower room from a summer house (it leaked, soaking loads of the plasterboard walls and the floor, and was never going to be used again so ripped it all out) which left a lot of wall to repair. The main wall is about 3m wide and is now about half original skimmed...

Well, thats why my wife is calling it - and she is petrified :D I *think* this is quite new leakage as I've not noticed it in nearly 2 years since we have lived here - but maybe I just never thought anything of it. The unit is stone cold at the moment and most of the leakage is hard/brittle...

I have a Worcester Highflow 440CDi and have added some temp sensors to the flow/return pipes for monitoring purposes (or geeky interest - whichever :D). Here is a graph from last night... Dark blue - flow, light blue - return It is currently set to 60C flow temp which it holds very well...

I've installed some LED strips on a ceiling but power supply is currently in the "prototype stage" in the eaves above that room and just looking for any advice on the best permanent solution. The controller is 5V very low power USB connection, it controls a relay that turns on the power to a...

In our "new to us" house there is an external building, the water supply to it comes out through the house wall in 15mm plastic, converted into blue pipe which then goes under the garden a bit before getting to the other building. Is this ok as it is? I might put some insulation and hard...

My boiler has gone on the blink! The power light next to the boiler on/off switch comes on, and the timer built into the boiler panel has power, but there are no other signs of life - no red lights, nothing on the two digit display etc. I've checked the two fuses (ok) I can see but think there...

I occasionally get a leak inside my conservatory - its appears from the plastic panelling over the doors into the main house so presumably coming from the box gutter. It was doing it before the leaves started falling but we had a real downpour this week which led to a very wet floor inside so...

I need to do something with the cracks in this wall I've just pulled out some lumps of loose plaster to see what was behind. Basically the right hand side is a solid concrete block wall, plastered. The left side is around a doorframe, it is a wooden stud structure and plasterboarded. Looks...

I inherited this as part of a house move, it did have a shed on it which unsurprisingly had a rather uneven floor :eek: The whole area is 3.6m X 4m and is very solid apart from this end The fence posts are very solid with a couple of concrete gravel boards at the bottom, and these are on top...

I had a leak coming under the front rail of a quadrant shower enclosure so have pulled it all out to reseal, but as always it throws up questions :D The sealant joining tray to tiles was mouldy so I've removed that too, but there are a few bits of grout missing - quite thin gaps say 2-3mm and...

Our garden fence is getting a bit past it so looking at options and wondered if anybody had any bright ideas :idea:. This is what we currently have 10x 6ft x 4ft (mostly) tall with 1ft concrete gravel boards so about 5ft high all along (and it slopes downward). Ideally I'd like the height to...

I have a 1/2" BSP bush I want to connect to some 22mm pipework, but not sure on the right thing to get a good seal. I have a 22mm tee with a 1/2" pipe connection but the threads are parallel and the bush just goes all the way in, and doesnt bottom out either so not really an option for a washer...