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Can anyone help me with this boxed-in mess, please? Hoping someone's seen this type of toilet before. The main valve needs replacing, which (I assume) is only accessible from underneath, I removed the boxing in, because that's obviously how you access it...except you don't... How do I access...

Hi all, Got a strange one here, just wondering if anyone's heard of this before? Over the last couple of months we've had a quite alarming vibration/resonance coming through the pipes, it's so bad it actually causes the downstairs lamps to rattle! Luckily, it only happens in a very specific...

Just over a month ago I had my heating system flushed due to the downstairs radiators being for the most part, cold. A flush through with cleaner worked a treat, and the system was running beautifully, quiet and all radiators were hot to the bottom, that was until this week when we started to...

Hi all, Earlier this year I had a bare root privet hedge planted, all seems to be well but I have a couple of questions. Firstly one of them appears to have died, it did have a flurry at the start but the buds/leaves have dried up and fallen off (I suspect due to this relentless sun and no...

Hi, I'm looking to reseal my bath, but have recently discovered I've been using the wrong sealant for natural stone tiles in the past, made fairly obvious by the fact it seems to peel away from them over time... On reading the tube (which I've never done, sealant's sealant, right?!) most...

Hi, I'm looking to have a 10 metre strip of lawn removed, and bare root privet planted, I would do it myself but I've got a bit of an injury at the moment and time is ticking in terms of planting (I want it up and running this year). As such I want to get a few opinions of how much I could...

Hi all, Currently having the misfortune to have to fix a leak coming from somewhere on my Torbec, I've taken the feed pipe off and much to my disappointment the flow restrictor worm fell out, trouble is I've no idea which way round it goes back in. I've found two conflicting images, I think...

I'm looking to replace the acer that hasn't done too well in the middle of our front lawn, in fact it seems to have died completely now, all the leaves have turned brown and crispy (I've just run my hand up a branch and the lot's come off) and the branches almost look black in places like...

Hi folks, Got a bit of a strange one here, I have a plastic waste pipe coming through the wall from the washer and I want to replace the 90 degree bend and lengthen the pipe that runs into the drain (it's been cut about 3" above the drain hole and also has no bracket securing it to the wall)...

Hi all, Yet another query about the random electrics I'm gradually finding in my house :roll: I'm just coming to replace the light switch in the kitchen only to find that it has two red wires and one grey common going into it, I asked the electrician who installs the electrics at work and...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me some advise on how I'd go about removing the front cover from this shower? It's turned faulty (works but only cold to very mild water comes out - thinking element/heating can) so I want to have a quick look inside to see what's what...

Hi all, Hope you can help, I'm trying to fit three new two way switches but I'm struggling a bit as they look completely different at the back and the labelling isn't helping me. I think I may have a rough idea but I don't want to blow my house up so wanted to run it past you kind folks...

Hi folks, I'm looking for a high quality screwdriver handle for the hundreds of screw heads that I've aquired over the years. I know they're not the best quality but with the number of them I have there must be a head that would be a perfect fit for practically any screw known to man...

Hi folks, I hope you can help. I've been noticing a constant trickle of water running down the back of the toilet bowl for the last month or so, it comes down in four separate places along the back. I've enclosed shots of the cistern and the "plunger" part attached to the lid via the...

I've got a wall lamp outside my front door and would like it to come on when it goes dark outside. Now it would seem that at some point there has been a sensor (looks like a glass dome with electronics inside) that did the task screwed to the side of the porch and appears connected to the...

I've just received one of these new fangled energy monitors which is actually quite cool. My query is which cable the clamp should attach to, I have an old style meter (dial) with two thick grey cables coming form underneath, one towards the middle and one to the right (to the left is another...

I've just moved in to a new house and am still sussing out what's what. Something that seems rather odd however is a thick cable (must be an inch wide, probably more) that runs from the ground near the meters up the wall and into the loft. I can't get up there properly yet as I need a ladder...

I'm looking for just over a metre length of chamfered MDF skirting board 9.5cm in height. Unfortunately the yard I go to wanted me to buy a huge length which I have no use for, also they didn't have the size I require only one that's too low or one that's too high. Does anyone know where I...