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Seeing a Potterton Promax 28 combi boiler where the heating seems to have completely stopped working this afternoon. It is still heating hot water on demand perfectly well. The hot water indicator on the boiler itself is constantly on, and the burner indicator lights up when I increase the hot...

Another leaking bathroom mixer tap - I want to remove the handle, have removed the little internal screw with an allen key, but it refuses to budge without more force than I'm confident to use. This kind of handle should be removable, right? What can I try to make it come away?

I'm trying, slowly, to fix a toilet that has been leaking into the bowl for some time, with the short, annoying refilling of the cistern every ten minutes. I've tried replacing the rubber seal but only seem to have made it worse. It's an old Siamp Storm 33 flush valve and it seems that the...

Hi - so it seems like my oven has died. While the clock and timer functions work perfectly well, turning the control knobs neither turns on the light or fan inside the oven, nor does any heating begin. Can I ask what this might suggest as a point of failure, perhaps something not as simple as a...

Hello, I've a failing LED bulb over the shower tray in the bathroom, with all but three or four of the LED's no longer illuminating. However looking at it, I've no idea how to remove the fixture in front of it to remove the bulb, whether by twisting or pulling, preferably without breaking it...

Apologies for another lighting switch query... I want to replace some double light switches, hoping for some guidance as to what I'm looking at with the current setup. Switches by lasto posted 27 Mar 2020 at 8:16 AM There are two doubles at either end of the hall, and the hall light can be...

Hello, I would like to fix a simple table lamp that that has been giving off a burning smell very soon after it is turned on. Different bulbs and even those rated well under the stated 60W limit of the lamp produced that same smell. I've completely removed the bayonet fitting and the power...

I have an old Ferroli F-30 combi-boiler (twelve-ish years) which for a time has been taking longer and longer to heat water. In the last few days it seems to have stopped doing so to any useful effect. The heating continues to work, though I haven't checked all radiators. The "water heating"...

Hello - A recurrence of a previous problem, namely the knob on the boiler that should control the central heating temperature has broken, leaving part of itself lodged inside and my parents unable to adjust the temperature. Fortunately it seems to have happened while the temperature has been set...

Hello - I've bought a new oven and made the amateur error of hoping that it would be a simple job of disconnecting the old one and reconnecting the cable to the new one. Wrong. The existing cable is huge! The new oven is a Beko single oven (OIF21300B) with much smaller terminal connections...

Hello - For the last while my toilet has been making an annoying noise each time it is flushed and the cistern refills. The toilet downstairs does not make any noise and nor do any of the taps in the house. I've read numerous suggestions here and elsewhere that the solution may be as simple...

After many years of service, the grill has decided not to cook my dinner tonight. Everything else works fine, fan oven, lights, hob, etc., but the grill refuses to heat up on either of the two available settings. I'd like to assume that it's only the element that's done and replace it, but...

Hello - Having been installed many years ago and operated without any problems since, the cistern in the toilet downstairs has begun to fill really slowly, with water spraying from a presumably broken component inside. The picture below hopefully shows the offending part circled. It...

Having my slate roof replaced and it's not as painless as I was led to believe. A number of things seem to have been overlooked or botched, the main consequence being it raining into my loft and then into my daughter's bedroom yesterday. That's another story...my query for now is about the...

Hi, After years of trouble-free use, the row of three lights on my kitchen ceiling have started to act up. One of the lights has a separate problem of one of the wire having come free from the "adaptor" into which the bulb is plugged - probably caused by the plastic hinge having loosened...

Hello, After almost 5 years of fault free use, my Dimplex heater has stopped working - just in time for the first cold! The model is a "Navarra NAV15P Pebble" (links at bottom) and there are some symptoms that have me baffled. The fire has the usual flame effect driven by a small motor and...