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With all of the heavy rain at the w/e i had quite a leak coming out of the top of the window reveal on the bay window at the front of my property (ground floor flat). It was filling up paper cups every few minutes when raining really heavily. Here is the water coming in inside...right at...

It's an idela standard toilet fitted a couple of years ago. There has been a small trickle of water going constantly into the pan. I suspected it might be the cistern/flush valve seal so i just fitted a new one but the trickle is still there. I'm not stumped as to what it could be. Note when...

Hi, We currently have an old (circa 10 years I'd say) oil fired boiler (situated in the kitchen) and gravity fed (I think) heating system (cold water tank in the loft, hot cylinder in airing cupboard on landing). Standard old rads (some single/some double) in our 4 bed house. We're planning an...

As the title suggests I have an annoying drip coming from the orange water diverter (on right side of picture below) once the pan is full. Last week I shut the water off (in the loft tank as no isolation valve near toilet grrrr), drained the tank then undid the valve arm via the screw joint...

We've constantly got a funky/foul smell in our spare bath room. It's a kind of mouldy/not right smell rather than smelling purely of sh%$te. I've ruled out any leaking pipes/mould issues anywhere as we recently replaced the sanitary ware/shower etc and the smell was there both before and after...

Was up there last night and there are quite a few holes with fresh dust around/underneath so it looks like a live infestation. The garage is unheated and has a little bit of damp coming up though the floor in a couple of places so the roof timbers are probably a bit moist which is how the...

Recently our mains power keeps tripping out. On our mains fuse box there are several different loops (down stairs lights, garage, shed, upstairs lights, living room etc) that all have their own trip switch. However it is always the main trip switch that goes. So far it has happened about 6 times...

Over the last few days there has been a delay when I turn on the hood extractor fan and/or lights. I flick the switch and there is a delay of anywhere between 5 and 30 seconds before the extractor starts or the lights come on. Any ideas what might be causing this?

I have a Waterside MC350 water softener. It's not been serviced for about 3 years - i've got a service booked in in about 10 days time. However....in the meantime the water tank keeps filling up (every day) and it keeps demanding more salt (even when there is about 2" in the bottom.) I've...

ok, so in the summer we got a water supply put in from an outside tap (on the house), under the drive to the (detached) garage where it went in, up through the roof and down into a utility room on the end of the garage. unfortunately during a -10 night a couple of days ago the pipe burst...

Currently above our front door we have a regular outdoor light operated via a 3 way switch just inside the front door (the other 2 operate the hallway and landing lights). I'd like to remove the outside light fitting and replace it with a low powered PIR motion sensor light so when i return at...

Hi All, In our kitchen we have a strip of about 6 halogen lights all mounted on the same fitting/gang/thingy. One of the bulbs appeared to have gone however when I swapped the bulb over from one out of the conservatory (that was working) it doesn't work. Any idea what may be wrong (as...

Ok, so I am a complete novice to woodworking but am determined to make a tv unit out of old scaffold boards, stain them down to make them look a bit rustic etc. I hope to end up with soomething like this: http://www.tomrobinsonfurniture.co.uk/#Recycled-Scaffold-Shelves ...but about twice...

I've just ripped out a fitted cupboard and discovered a square hole where a plug socket used to be. The electrics have been taped up etc. Just wondering the best way to patch it up before re-painting the room?

We have a garage building with some damp issues. Some background: Down one side on the outside there is raised beds that butt against the garage wall. At one end there is a raised patio that is almost certainly above the level of any damp course (if there is one). Also at this end the...

most of my roof water drains to soakaways by the looks of it. i'm not sure how big the soak aways are or how far from the house. is it ok to reroute the guttering so it drains away into the mains drain?

We moved into a house about a year ago. Shortly after i noticed a few cracks developed on the render on one side of the house. Initially i put it down to just cracked render but it looks a bit suspicious that they eminate up toward that upstairs window. Also In the bathroom (the other side...

the place we have moved into has a loft/attic fan that pulls in [cold] fresh air from the loft and filters then circulates it into the upstairs landing. my understanding is that the aim of these fans is to improve air circulation and reduce condensation and mold. in this cold weather the fan...

as raised on this thread i have an issue with crumbling bricks: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=230769 also there are a number of cracks in the wall. any idea what might be causing them?

I have a wall around my house with what look like fairly old bricks. While most are in good condition some (dotted all over the place) appear to be crumbling away to a powder, leaving the hard mortar hanging in mid air. Any idea what might be causing only certain bricks to turn to powder?