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1950's house, just uncovered the mains water stopcock in the utility room behind the sink unit, it is 3/4 inch iron (I think) and the stopcock is weeping from the gland and very stiff. It shuts down the flow around 95% but not completely. My preference would be to replace it but being 3/4...

Hi all, I have a problem in my new house which has a concrete drive, the section nearest the house pools water after it rains which means standing in a puddle when loading/unloading the cat boot etc. We will eventually look at e-laying the drive but for the medium term we need a way of...

Hi all, I need to drill a neat couple of holes through the side of a chimney breast to run some HDMI cables for a wall mounted TV. I am thinking of using a 28x300mm diamond core bit as the depth i need to drill is around 280mm. As these drills do not use guide bits I was wondering how...

Hi, I had some house renovation work done a couple of years back and the electrician provided me new lighting in the dining room-to-be consisting of 6 low voltage down lights and a central single lighting point. Both lighting systems are controlled by a double dimmer switch in the room. As...