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Hi, about to do the exterior of our garden studio clad in Siberian larch planks. We have a shadow gap and the planks will be fastened to battens. What would you recommend for the most unobtrusive finish ? Tongue-Tite Plus Stainless Steel T&G Screw or Lost Head stainless bright nail...

Hello all. Have inherited a rather old Spy system in our new house and managed to hack through a Viper window sensor cable while moving a cupboard. I’ve gel Clipped them together but the keypad is showing a fault (currently rt due to too many attempts at resetting it!). I have powered down the...

Hi peeps. Replacing my cracked outer oven door glass and looking for some high temperature double sided tape to fix the original ally vanity panels and deflector to the replacement glass. the original used a double sided tape for this application. Wondered if anyone can recommend any? Thanks in...

Hi all, like a prat whilst trying to stop a glass bottle falling off the kitchen side I managed to volley it into the top outer oven door glass on our New World NW701DOPS double oven (if the wife had filmed it it would have been worth £250). That being said and with the prospect of a new door...

Hi everyone. Hoping for some advice here about my dishwasher that has decided to stop filling. Basically when you start the cycle It empties without any problems and then a hum and at that point it is trying to fill but nothing arriving inside the unit. Mains water is fine and hitting the...

Hi everyone, i an now on my second Salamander pump, which has only lasted 14 months before failing. I do intend on handing it back to Salamander as this is the second pump that has let go (previous one lasted 5 years). Before I can send the current one back I wanted to get your opinion on what...

Hi, my alpha cb24 is emptying itself using the PRV. I have been told to check the pressure of the expansion vessel at the back. Can anyone tell me what pressure it should be reading? I have put a pressure gauge on it and it appears to be at 2bar.. Thanks

Hi, i need to fit some gates to a garage opening and there is a ramp behind the gates so they need to rise as they open. Each gate is 1.2m wide approx and needs to rise up about 10cm at furthest point. Does anyone have any experience of fitting rising gates? Thanks.

Hi, i am in the process of putting a timber garage at the end of our back garden and need some advice on access. My main question is - Does the car need to be able to come completely off of the road before entering the garage? Thanks

Hi, we currently have a drive at the front of our house but i am hoping to build a wooden garage at the rear of my garden and accessing it from the dead-end road that our house is on the corner of. Had a highways inspector round for some advice on putting a crossover in for access and he...

Hi all, im after some advice/clarification regarding putting up a conservatory. We have already extended our house (double rear extension) full width of the house (along with our neighbours, we are semi D's) The question is will we need PP for a conservatory off the back of the extension...

Hi, we have a few ugly radiator pipes on show and wondered if there is such a thing as pipe covers? polished chrome effect or white....thoughts on a postcard please!

Hi had our house re rendered approx 4 years ago and we have a few cracks appearing on the external white render. Can anyone recommend a good (pure white) external filler? Im trying to avoid repainting the cracks so ideally need a dry white filler.....thanks :?:

Hello, not sure if this is the right forum section to post in? We have just had a lovely open fire fitted for the winter months. Our house is a semi detached house circa 1900. I have had a sweep round who gave it a clean and smoke pellet etc and all was fine according to him, he said...

Hi all, the problem is in the title. My Alpha CB24 leaks a very small amount of water out of the pressure release pipe when it is turned on, is there a quick fix for this? Many thanks.