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Hellofolks Posted this in the "Building" section - don't know if 'Tools & MAterials" is more appropriate. Anyhow... Trying to drill a 6mm dia 30mm deep hole (for a wall plug) into a concrete lintel - and not having much joy to be honest. I've managed to completely drill one hole (out of six)...

So, Some roofers re-roofed our flat roof some 30 months ago. They removed a felt roof (which had done close to 20 year's service) with an (allegedly) Firestone EDPM rubber roof (turns out it isn't Firestone but something similar). 20th October, Storm Babet happens and the roof leaks. Not the...

So, title says it all really. I had a halogen security floodlight with an integrated PIR. The mains feed ran into the PIR and there was a switched live accessible (it went to the floodlight), so I ran a further cable from this light to another non-sensor light, such that when the PIR switched...

My daughter is having her bathroom re-tiled and a new bathroom suite installed. She is paying Wickes just short of £10k. Job was due to take 4-5 days (bathroom is around 1750 x 2100 mm). Today, Tuesday 7th March, is Day 2 of WEEK FIVE! Bathroom has been re-tiled once. On Day 4 of the job...

Hi, My daughter has a Combi boiler (specifically a Vokera Compact 25A - a bit of a dog, I know). She’s thinking of replacing it with another Combi boiler. Despite the boiler being about 3m from the kitchen sink, it takes a long time for hot water to come through. So, my question is can...

Hi, A bit of a strange one this. Worcseter Bosch 8000 Life system boiler - installed just under 3 years ago, regularly serviced. I noticed the flue fan (is that correct) being on when there was no call for heat. Checked the boiler and sure enough, the temperature display is showing the temp...

Hi, Happy New Year folks! My daughter is wanting to extend her house at the rear with a single-storey, 'L'-shaped wrap-around to provide a large kitchen/diner & family space/garden room at the back. She is the right-hand house of a semi, with a narrow driveway on the right leading to a brick...

We have an old AEG built-under double oven. It is at least 15 years old, probably nore like 20 plus. We've been in the house for just over 26 years and we put the oven in - but it is so long ago that neither my wife nor I can remember when we bought it. It is an AEG Competence model 5212BU-w...

Hi, We discovered yesterday (Christmas Eve) that the lower oven of our AEG built-under double oven wouldn't come on. I could find out what heating element it has and replace that (I did this with the oven element in my daughter's free-standing cooker last year and it cost me less than a tenner...

Hi, I am trying to sort out my daughters kitchen sink waste (what an absolute nightmare) and have posted a question in this section of the forum. Failing that, is there anybody that could do the job for me URGENTLY as my daughter has been without a sink for over a week now and can't get a...

Hi Folks My daughter has replaced her kitchen sink. Her old sink was a 1 1/2 bowl single drainer in resin and has been replaced with a stainless steel 1 1/2 bowl single drainer. The washingmachine drains into the same waste as one of the bowls via a spigot (is that correct?) A "plumber" took...

Hi, I'm after some general advice here. I'm tiling a small cloakroom. I've already installed a vanity unit and I am now tiling around the walls. One wall has an ugly pipe and I intend to build up the surface either side of the pipe with 9mm plywood, then tile over the top so that the...

As the title says, I have one radiator where the bottom is cold (or at best mildly warm) whilst the top is hot (too hot to touch). We recently had a can of inhibitor injected into the CH filling loop. I'm gussing that this is a build-up of sludge? Given that the rad is small, I can easily...

The red 'Receive/Alarm' light on the SCR flashes periodically for around 5 seconds every five minutes or so (which means that the Digistat and SCR are communicating) and the green light is 'on'. This means that we should be getting heat. However, the zone valve doesn't actuate, the boiler...

Strange title, I know. Here's the thing, my daughter has just painted a stained wooden window sill. She's given it two coats of undercoat but something is bleeding through and I'm wondering what we can do to stop it - she wants to gloss paint the windowsills. I know for knots there is a...

Hi folks, Apologies in advance if I use the incorrect terminology in describing the problem. First, some History. The current system is a WB Greenstar 8300iW 30 S (or maybe 35 S) condensing boiler. No cold-water header tank in loft, not a combi-boiler (we have a hot water tank in the airing...

Hi folks, I hope this is the correct forum to ask this particular question. Kettle stopped working yesterday and I have pinned the problem down to the powerbase. It isn't the fuse, nor a loose wire in the plug, so it is either a break in the cable or a loose connection inside the...

Hi folks - I'd welcome a bit of advice on my 23-year old fridge. Up to the middle of last week (say 27th Oct), the fridge seemed to be working perfectly. Yesterday, we noticed some water puddling under the fridge and that the fridge thermometer was at 12°C. Also, the back plate of the...

Hi folks Just a quick few questions. The Fernox Boiler Buddy and the Magnaclean do the same job - they remove iron particles due to corrosion from the hot water central heating as it passes back to the boiler via RETURN pipe (?). 1) Is one filter easier to install than the other? 2)...

Another query... One whole side of the Quickclear windscreen has stopped working - it WOULD be the driver's side wouldn't it? The other side (passenger) is working fine. So.. a) is there more than one connector/plug to the windscreen and could this have become dislodged? b) if it is...