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    Mystery Sewer Gas Smell after Extension

    Hi, new poster hoping someone might be able to help me with an issue that has me at the end of my tether! For almost a year we have been experiencing intermittent sewer gas smell in our house. 2 years ago we had a rear extension done, including a downstairs WC, which involved re-routing some of...
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    Patio & Damp Proof Course

    Hi, I bought my house 2 years ago and have finally gotten round to trying to sort out the back garden. The previous owner has built a kitchen extension that juts out from the middle of the rear of the house, leaving difficult to use spaces at either side. One one side there is just a concrete...
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    Vauxhall Zafira Starting Mystery!

    Hi, twice in the last month my car (03 Zafira 1.6 Petrol ) has failed to start and had to be jump started. This is the only times this has happened (had car 18months) and on both occassions it happened after the engine had been running in idle for a few minutes with the heater on. Jump/push...
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    Plastering Round a Bath (am I stupid?)

    Hi - hope have posted this in the right place. I am refitting my bathroom and have a bit of a quandry. We have a bath where the taps are in the middle as opposed to the end (see pic) I am going to tile the back wall along the long edge of the bath behind the taps - but am unsure what to do...
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    Bathroom floor tiles

    Just ripped up smelly old floorboards in bathroom and replaced with 18mm chipboard T&G flooring (the type suitable for bathrooms). I now want to tile - do I have to put ply on top or can I tile onto chipboard with some treatment? If ply - how thick? Thanks
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    Base for wall tiles over bath

    Hi. I am redoing my bathroom and as part of putting a shower over the bath I have removed some plasterbaord from the stud wall. I can easy replace this with more plasterboard, but wondering if something stronger or more waterproof would be better as a base for the wall tiles? I am thinking aqua...
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    Light stopped working- baffled!

    I have a light in my utility room that was working fine and has suddenly stopped working. It did not go off with a flash, the fuse board was not tripped and the bulbs are all ok. The wiring is as per the attached pic. The double socket works ok so everythng in the series to this point must...
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    2 cold radiators....still!

    So my rads in my kids bedrooms are still cold - here is what I have tried - hoping someone can help as I am baffled. 5 rads downstairs all ok. 6 rads upstairs, 4 ok, 2 cold. rads do not have TRV - just old pegler terrier turn valves wich are free. boiler is a Vokera combi. WHat I have done...
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    Floor Tiles on Floor tiles

    Ok - so the porch in my new house has blue ceramic floor tiles. The missus wants beige ceramic floor tiles and I dont really want to lift the existing ones. No one seems to be able to give me a straight answer about whether it is possible/sensible to tile on top of the existing tiles (nice...
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    Waste pipe for mashing machine

    Hi, I am in the process of converting part of the back of my garage into a utility room and this involves plumbing in a wahing machine. I have the water supply sorted and planned to run the waste into a standpipe which joings the waste from the utility room sink (via 40mm swept tee). the...
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    Painting melamine kitchen units

    I know there are threads on this already, but most seem to focus on solid wood units. Mine are the typical B&Q melamine type. These units are in my utility room so dont have to be perect but dont want them to look a mess. So the questions are - what type of prep is needed (sanding? primer?) ...
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    Cheap and cheerful!

    Hi, Have just created a utility room by partitioning off part of the back of my garage. Partition wall is 1200 x 2400 plasterboards. want to paint wall but dont want to skim it - will be mostly covered by units and the room is rough and ready anyway (other 3 walls are bare brick). What is...
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    Making safe a removed light

    2 strip lights in garage. Have removed one as it is in the way of where I have built a partition wall to make a utility room. Is there a quick way of maying this safe (permanently) other than dis connecting the wire at the other end and pulling it through?
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    Fitting Handrail on Balustrade

    Hi. I am fitting a new balustrade in my house. The newell posts and base rails are in and the landing balustrade is complete - I just have to do the handrail and balusters on the diagonal part of the stairs. My question is how is the best/easiest way to join the handrail to the newell...
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    Coax Cable Signal Splitter

    Hi, I need to split the signal from the aerial to connect to 2 TVs. When I use a conventional splitter the sigbnal drops to an unacceptable level. When either TV is connected without the splitter the signal is fine. Do I just have a cheap splitter? Can I get some kind of signal boosting...
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    2 Cold radiators

    Just moved house and radiators in the kids bedrooms are cold. 8mm pipes running to valaves are cold. Have read other threads - most focus on attempting to release seized TRV. The valves on mine are Pegler Terriers - have tried hitting them with hammer but no change. Have tried forcing heat...
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    Triton electric shower always too hot!

    Just moved into new house and shower in en-suite is always too hot even on coldest setting. Have tried changing head with shower in main bathroom (which works fine) with no joy. Any other ideas?
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    Adding Light from mains spur

    I have read some other posts on adding a light from a ringmain and one mentioned that you cannot add a spur from a spur. I am making a utility room in the back of my garage and there is a double socket there but no light. However - I think that the double socket must be on spur as there is...
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