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I should point out first of all that I have looked through the Wiki for this forum, but just can't seem to find the answer. Whilst decorating, have taken a light switch off the wall. Unfortunately, a couple of the wires have dislodged, and I can't work out how to wire everything up again...

Hello, hope someone could give me some advice please. I am having my lounge re-decorated which involves the walls being re-skimmed and painted. I had the decorator in to give me a quote. His plan was to paint over the plaster with a matt white emulsion, then finish off with two coats of our...

I am in the process of re-decorating my living room. My plan is to have one "feature wall" clad in wallpaper. The rest of the walls stripped back to plaster, then skimmed and painted. It's my job to strip off all the wallpaper and paint, and go back to plaster. Then the plasterer comes in...

Hi All Wonder if you could help me please. We recently removed a couple of large wardrobes from our bedroom (exterior) wall. Property is a bungalow. The pictures are from the worst affected side of the room. The wardrobe back was up against the exterior wall (furthest right wall), the side...

Hi We have a Baxi Bermuda 401 back boiler, has been running fine for years, but pilot light went out at the end of last week and I couldn't relight it. So called in the Corgi engineer today. He took off the fire at the front, and diagnosed the problem immediately, the pilot was clogged. Not...

We've moved into a house (originally built in 1972) which needs a fair bit of decorating. The previous owner has made a bit of a hash of painting the interior walls, so much so that I can scrape back the paint that's been applied to them. I've attached a couple of photos. When the paint is...

We've moved into a new house which needs a fair bit of decorating. The previous owner has made a bit of a hash of painting the interior walls, so much so that I can scrape back the paint that's been applied to them. I've attached a couple of photos. When the paint is scraped back there's a...

Hi All We had a new bathroom fitted in December last year. Very pleased with it in general, but having huge problems with the floor grouting. It's only a small floor area (4ftx5ft), and we noticed the grout crumbling (but only in certain areas, generally those with the most traffic), around...

Hi All OK, have an overflow problem. Have two overflow pipes on my outside wall, right next to each other. One protrudes from the wall by around 5cm, the other one is flush with the wall. The one that protrudes is linked to the small central heating tank, and I don't think this is...

Just had a Triton Dove mixer shower installed in conjunction with a Salamander CT75 pump. Bit of a strange problem. When I start the shower after it hasn't been used for a couple of hours, I get cold water coming through in pulses. If I remove the shower head from its holder and bring down to...

Hi All I'm looking at refurbing our bathroom in the next couple of months, and would like to replace shower at the same time (currently a basic Mira electric). It's OK, but needs to be turned up to max to get a decent temperature and the flow rate then suffers. Also as it's coming in from the...