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I'll do that tomorrow, many thanks.

Hi, we have 2 uPVC tilt and turn double glased windows (about 15 years old, pretty bog standard I think) both of which feel drafty when closed down the hinge side (top to bottom). I'm guessing wind is somehow getting past the black rubber seal on the sash of the window which is meant to be...

No, the fan itself is fine, not too noisy. I just don't put the light on at 3.00am when I'm up for a pee to stop myself waking up any more than necessary !

Yes there is a rain cap. Problem with that WC is we tend to only use it during the night and then we don't put the light on (I sit, my aims not that good!) so the extractor fan rarely turns on.

Thanks, that makes perfect sense

Hi Realise similar has been covered before but thought I would just check it out first. Our upstairs WC has an extractor fan which is ducted out vertically through the attic. It's dripping water through the fan opening which I'm guessing will be condensation? I've attached a photo of the...

Starting to think you might be right. The problem is that with the plasterboard being so thick you can't hear much difference with the knocking method. Think I'll opt for plan C and just use the self drill heavy duty metal fixings instead.

Hi I'm trying to put a shelf up in my daughter's house. It's a semi detached and the wall I'm trying to put the shelf onto is the dividing wall between her house and the neighbour's (living room to living room). It's apparently double thickness plasterboard with a space in between for fire regs...

Hi We're having a new sink and toilet in our little upstairs cloakroom. There's no bath or shower and it gets very little use (occassional quick pee/wash hands). Do I need water resistant laminate or will the non water resistant stuff do? Thanks in advance

Part was warranted not labour

Turns out it was indeed a cracked main heat exchanger. Luckily enough our plumber knew that even though the boiler was only warrantied for 5 yeas, the heat exchanger had a 10 year warranty. Excellent customer service from Worcester/Bosch, out the next day, flat rate of about £190 for 3 hours...

Hi, sorry, I now there have been similar threads but thought I would post my own specific circumstances and the investigations so far 9 Year old Worcester 38 Cdi (combi) Losing pressure over the last week. Basically I fill it in the morning to 1.5/2 bars and by bedtime (10.30 ish) it's down to...

Thanks so much, only thing is, as I said in previous post, I'm not papering the left hand wall, that's being left painted, only the sloping wall is being papered, so that simplifies things. Once again though thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated.

There we go, see attached. As I say, it's the sloping wall with the mirror to be papered, the wall to the left will just be left painted. As well as advice re best way to paper it, could someone tell me the correct terminology for that kind of wall please so I don't over-explain and confuse...

Hi, I'm not even sure of the terminology here so bear with me! I'm going to wallpaper a feature wall in our bedroom which slopes into the eaves i.e. it's a normal straight vertical wall for the first 175cm or so then it slopes out towards you as you look at it to join on to the ceiling for...

I'll do that, I like a wee bit of detective work!

To be honest, because it's only going to be used for a desk lamp and because we've got the modern 13A socket on the same wall for anything else, I've ordered this unswitched 5A round pin socket and I'll just wire a round pin plug to the table lamp we will be using...

Great, that's what I'll do. The socket is in a wee alcove in the bedroom which is the perfect size for a desk, so a small lamp was what was going to go on it anyway. Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated. Steve

Removing the fuse that kills the upstairs lights switches the round pin socket off (the socket is in an upstairs bedroom). So I'm guessing it is wired to that circuit (5A fuse in the fusebox). I'm guessing that the advice will be that it cannot therefore be swapped out to a modern socket? If...

So, wired the old round pin plug to a lamp. The lamp turns on and off as you would expect it to from the socket but turning the ceiling lights on and off has no effect on it so it does not seem to be on the lighting circuit.