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I don't know if this is the right place but seeing as it's near the garden I thought it best to post here. Anyway, there is a pipe coming out of ground outside my house and I was told by one of the neighbours that the previous owners used to connect a garden hose to this and water the garden...

I had central heating put in January 2012 and I've noticed that one of the radiators is luke warm, not cold but definitely not as hot as the others. It started with 2 radiators (1 on the landing hall and the other in the loft conversion bedroom). I bled the landing radiator and smelly gas...

I have a Triton Jade 3 electric shower which is about 2.5 years old. This week i noticed cold water dripping out of the bottom of the unit while the shower was running but today while the shower was running, i couldn't turn it off.....pressing the on/off button did nothing. I had to turn the...

I am looking to insulate my 2nd bedroom which is a loft conversion. The house was originally built around 1850. I found that it should be a problem insulating between the ceiling and the roof but have since found out that there is no felt between the ceiling the roof and all there is tiles...

I live in an old house which the top bedroom is a loft conversion. I want to insulate for the winter and noticed that the insulation between the roof and the ceiling in rubbish. The ceiling is all cracked and looks horrible so i thought about ripping the old ceiling down, insulating and...

My missus has just been doing a spin cycle in our Neff washing machine and about 10 minutes in there was a loud bang. I ran out to the kitchen turned it off and looked inside the window. Couldn't see a thing becuase of the smoke. When i could i opened up the door and white smoke was...

I have tongue and groove panelling to form a cupboard under the stairs. I've just stripped off all the gloss to give me a natural wood finish but i still have white gloss in the grooves. What is the best way to get these annoying grooves rid of the gloss? Would it be best yo use a...

I have replaced a double dimmer switch ehich was old and tacky with a new dimmer switch and it was wired just the same as the old one. What happens is that there is only power to the wall lights when the power to the ceiling light is on. If i have the ceiling light on full I can dim the...

I have a socket on the wall that looks like it used to be a power socket for a storage heater. There is a red light that comes on at night and out during the day. We have storage heaters anyway so i guess that was what it was for. Seeing as this socket is doing nothing would it be...