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Hi All, We have a very small / thin radiator located on the only small strip of bare wall in our kitchen. However, it is a bit of pain as there is a small fridge right beside it which isn't great (a radiator beside a fridge!) but more so the fridge door can bang off the thermostatic valve...

Hi All, Sitting on our front room tonight and started to feel very warm. Checked the room thermostat (analog) and it was off. Turned it down to zero just to be sure but burner was still kicking in. So thinking the thermostat might be faulty I went to the utility room and checked the...

We have a 4 year old house with a gas fire in our front room. We have never used it, in fact we only ever saw it lit when we were looking at the property before buying. Recently we decided to use it so because it had been so long we got a gas man round to check it all out. Small external pipe...

Hi All, We ahve a timber frame house and so all of our internal walls are plasterboard/stud. It seems every single plug socket, light switch socket and tv realted sockets etc are very shaky and insecure i.e. every time you go to switch on/off a light or plugin in or remove a plug the whole...

Hi All, My parents in law have an old house near the sea in France that seems to have been built with a porous kind of rock and mortar. It apparently was a popular building material years ago. We think that the walls draw moisture up from the ground or outside and as a result one of the...

Hi All, We have a gas fire in the dining room which runs off of a cylinder in the back entry. Its almost brand new but we havent used it in about a year. I tried fireing it up the other night, so first thing was to reconnect the gas cylinder. then back into the house, turned the valve to...

Hi All, We have a triton as2000xt thermostatic power shower in the bathroom...it was there when we moved in. It seems to mix the hot water from the hot water tank and cold water from the cistern tank. However, when we put it on and turn the dial towards the hot settings the pressure drops...

Hi All (again), Last winter we were tortured with constantly adjusting the two thermostats we have for central heating. One is for upstairs and the the other for downstairs. Trouble was that (as expected i suppose) with the doors shut some rooms were either too hot or too cold compared...

Hi All, I have two struts in the loft that connects some roof joists and was wondering if they are serving any purpose and if it would be safe to either remove them or move them upwards so i dont have to step over them when walking around. Here are some images: thanks in advance!

Hi All, I need to replace both the inlet valve and the flush mechanism inside a close coupled cistern in my bathroom. The problem is that both the pan and the cistern are completely against the wall and the bottom has tiles around it. Here is a photo: And here is a shot from above...

Hi all, Wonder could someone help. We have two toilets in our newly built house, both the smaller cistern/push button type. One is constantly filling/overflowing (making small adjustments seem to stop it filling at all). The other takes forever to fill for several reasons: 1. the water...

Hi All, Just wondering if it is normal or OK to have some gaps below a upvc window. Its difficult to describe but here goes...i'll try and get some pics later. Most of the windows sit nice and squarely on their sill. However the kitchen window seems to have been placed such that it juts...

Hi All, I have a couple of questions about our upvc windows but i'll raise a separate post for each as they are different. We have upvc windows, each of them have two little holes at the bottom on the outside which are about the same size as a tic-tac sweet i.e. about the size you see on...

Hi All, We bought a new house around 6 months ago (brick exterior with internal timber frame). The house is great and the builder has been quick to address any snags but there are a couple of annoyances that have just arisen. We have experienced cracked tiles in the bathroom. This isn't a...