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Been having an insurance reinstatement done after a water leak. The builders hired to do it have replaced some plaster and skirting boards. Only problem is there are some fairly large gaps between the plaster and the skirting at points. The builders say the decorators can fill these gaps in if...

I have two outside lights on the same circuit and they weren't working, so I went to change the bulbs. One bulb had blown, but one was fine -- I tested it inside, and it still works. But it wasn't working with the outside lights, and neither did a new bulb. But using my current detector pen I...

In my garage there's a sink built into a cabinet. It's very handy, but sometimes I get a water leak in the pipes at the bottom of the cabinet. Basically, whoever put this together has just shoved two flexible plastic pipes into each other (the one from the plughole, which goes into the one that...

I've painted the heads of some copies of my front door keys so that they're recognizable within a large bunch of keys (my local keycutter says they don't have any novelty patterned key in that form of key yet). But I suspect that the paint may eventually wear off as keys rub against each...