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Keeps blowing fuses but only when the start button is pressed. No apparent short circuit on the heating element. Is there anywhere else that's the likely culprit?

First the thermostat light was coming on but no heat so I ordered a new element. But when the element arrived, the oven had gone completely dead, not even the thermostat light and this even before attempting to install the element. Ideas appreciated...

...it's on the beams and rafters, and when you rub it, the wood rubs to dust too. :shock: What is it!? It's especially noticeable on the stone wall at the apex of the roof where the rafters meet in an inverted "V".

I'd like to get that ripple effect when replacing some cracked panes of 200yo original glass. I hear the options are crown v horticultural/agricultural. But crown was quoted at £50 for one small piece to fit inside a sash and horticultural is said to be very thin and dangerous. Have you...

The mastic looks much more solid (even though it takes 6 months to cure) but I hear they're both good. What are your views? I've applied the polysulphide today and I can't see much difference to silicone - is it actually better? How long do you have to wait before painting over...

We had dry rot on floor joists and stone wall in one room of a 200 yr old house, which was sprayed. Now less than three years later it's back (there was a small hole in the windowsill that let in moisture). And this time it's on the lintel too that's being replaced. The stone was bored last...

Hello, does anyone have any experience with using both or either on wooden sashes and can say which is better?

I'm stuck! I have a justifiable paranoia about the windowsills in a 4th storey south facing room in Scotland where I've had wet and then dry rot in 2008 shortly after we moved in. This year I found dry rot in the next room caused by water penetrating a small hole on the sill, rotting the...

Hi, I have a boiler which needs repressurising every day at the moment (although it used to be less often). The plumber put a bag over the blow-off pipe and it has collected water. He thinks there is a leak somewhere. We have checked the radiators and there is nothing obvious there. The...

Hello, I had a joiner in to fix a sill with rot and asked what I should use to seal the vertical wooden frame to the masonry which looks very messy and has holes in. He said use decorators caulk and paint over. He used caulk to seal the sill to the window ledge. But when this came up in B&Q...

I have tried a couple of times to repressurise the Baxi system boiler whose pressure has dropped (we know there is a leak somewhere that we can't find and it has dropped before) but this time although it is firing up it isn't going beyond 1bar and I was told to put it to 1.5 bar. I am a bit...

Horrendous smell from inside the machine and part of seal has come away and disintegrated into black specs among the clothes. Is it just a question of a new seal or has something else caused this (machine was moved recently)? Also since it was moved water flooded when I opened the door...