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I'd like to run some pipework from my garage to an outside tap at the other side of some double doors. Without going into further details, the only route I have is through that wall half a brick to the right of where the power cable goes through, then up to the ceiling and across. I can't go...

I want to permanently remove a radiator in an upstairs bedroom. I'll drain the system from downstairs and am ok with draining and removing rad. It's plastic microbore under the floor connecting to 15mm copper into the rad. Just wondering what the best way to cap it off is though? The video...

Further info. I've had it apart. I found the thermostat in the top of the freezer. I tried warming this with a lighter to see if I could make it change temperature, and it didn't want to. Still reading -25 degrees C. It was warming up slightly, but then I had the door open. So perhaps it was...

We have a Samsung RSG5UCRS american style fridge freezer. We had a power cut earlier in the week, and since then food isn't freezing. I can hear the fan working. The setting for the freezer is showing -25 degrees which is the temperature you want it to be, and when I open the door it stays on...

Bit of a vague question I realise, but not easy to explain. Got an electrolux electric oven (EOU6330X) , probably 13 years old. It all works. Heats up to temperature. I can see the fan at the back is running. But its just not cooking stuff evenly. Stuff needs longer than the instructions say...

OK, thats what I thought. Yes, you may be right, but worth a go as the ballasts are hard to come by apparantly. Thanks

I've got a bathroom mirror with a T9 round tube. Tube went a while ago, and just got a replacement, and it still doesn't work. Sounds like it is very likely that the landlite EB-56 ballast has gone. These aren't made any more, and 40w seems overkill in this day and age anyway. So I'm looking...

Thanks. Yesterday I had set the heating to frost protection. So when I got in I cranked up downstairs only (they are on separate thermostats) with the other radiators closed. That did get some heat through the rad, and the lockshield was also hot. So does that sound more like a balance...

Its definitely unscrewed open. Obviously I cant tell if it is actually open without getting the radiator off, but I assume it must be. Nope - I have turned off all other radiators that I can at the TRV (some of the TRVs are broken) (The TRVs need replacing, but I intend to replace with smart...

One of our downstairs radiators is struggling to get hot. At first I thought it was a balance issue, but I've opened the tap fully, and removed and freed the TRV pin. On closer inspection the right hand TRV is getting really hot, but the left side valve remains cold. The top of the rad is...

I have just been testing on rinse and spin. I assumed rinse was pretty much the same as wash. Empty rinse and spin completes. Previously it was completing the rinse, but failing the spin. Now it even fails the rinse, and won't even empty. Samsung agent wants 100 call out and thinks new PCB at...

Quick update. I took everything out of it and it completed a rinse and spin cycle. Then put some clothes in and it got stuck before it even got to the spin cycle. Any ideas? Is it likely to be the motor, spider or something else? Motor says it has a 10 year warranty, so that would be nice.

I have a Samsung Ecobubble WF90F5E3U4W that has stopped spinning. It does the whole wash, and rotates nicely. Then when it gets to the end it start spinning slowly at first quite happily. Then it seems to get to a point where it cant spin. It seems stuck in one place. I read up that this...

ANother option I have is to buy a 2nd hand mira shower (not quite the same model) and try to use the heater tank on existing shower. However, current shower is 8.5kw and the 2nd hand one I have the option on is 9.8kw. Will the 9.8kw tank work with the existing controller etc?

I have a mira sprint shower that has given up heating water. Its a few years old. So want to replace it like for like. In the past I've done this with a mira sport and even on the newer model Mira sport had kept all the screw holes etc in the same place so it was a simple slot in job. Now...

OK. I'll drain it down and top up via the pan where I can at least control the level. For whatever reason doing it via the sink wont flow into the unit without assistance from the pump. Thanks for your help anyway.

Yes .... fire away .... I can work most stuff out. But I cant see whats inside this so cant see whats happening. Thats the problem. In fairness I've used a degree of common sense and planning i.e. testing with water before wasting the descaler etc but for whatever reason this seems to be one...

Arggghhh. This is driving me mad now. I've blocked off the shower. Did a test run of 5l of water down sink with power off. All ran away and level in toilet bowl rose after about the 4th litre, all good after the 5th litre. Great! Switched it back on and let it it drain. Then switched it...

Nice one, thanks again.

I just edited previous thread, but crossed over your reply: OK, final edit: Can I just disconnect the trap from the pipe at the shower, and blank it off with something like this for the duration? http://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine-t23u-multifit-blanking-plug-white-40mm/96079 Read more...