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Was heading into one of our bedrooms this morning, only to find that I couldn't open the door - the latch was jammed solid. There was no warning of impending failure. All our doors were replaced at the same time some years back - so I checked around and found another bedroom door latch was...

Just fitting a Nuie Ivo close coupled comfort height toilet today as part of a bathroom refit for my mum and dad. I've come across one or two challenging loos in the past but this one is a bit more annoying than most and I wondered if anyone else has seen something similar, and if so, what...

Currently re-fitting my parents bathroom for assisted showering. This is onto an unbreachable concrete floor so I need to run a pipe out the side of the (raised) shower tray and box it in. There are two variants of tray I'm looking to buy, where these trays have a built in anti-slip surface and...

Hi - just wondered if anyone had any particular recommendations for self levelling compounds for a concrete floor? I have used them occasionally before, but find the products I've used go off far too quickly so it has been a full on race to trowel them out to avoid a disaster. I'm prepared to...

Need to stick a piece of plasterboard to the underside of a concrete lintel in a window reveal. Have some plasterboard adhesive ready to dot and dab it, but just wondered if it will stick straight on or whether it needs any surface prep such as PVA etc. Thanks.

Just about do a bathroom project for my parents. Managed without needing an SDS Plus drill/chisel up to now as I don't normally do enough of the sort of work that needs one and/or I have the luxury of taking my time - but in this case, I need to get the job done much faster and I have three...

Looking to put in an electric shower for my parents who are in their 80s, and the Mira Advance Flex looks a good option for us given the friendliness and clarity of the controls for my mum whose sight is going a bit, and she has arthritis in her hands - plus the max temp can be configured on...

Our south facing sunroom has Maple engineered flooring which has been down for around 15 years and has been bleached in the bright sunlight. The skirting was put on after it was laid - which gave a really nice neat finish without bits of quadrant, but makes it a more difficult job to replace...

A wheelchair bound friend of mine has a front door frame that tends to get hit with the wheelchair from time to time. Sticky backed foam draught seal won't last long and the current strip of it is dropping off - but I notice on the top and the hinge side of the door, what I assume is the...

When a set of standard headphones is plugged into the headphone socket of a relative's TV, voices are all chopped up and garbled to the point they are completely unintelligible. What's odd is if there happens to be music on the channel that is selected at the time (instead or as well as voices)...

Looking to swap a halogen 12V GU 5.3 for an LED in a relative's fibre optic Christmas tree - but when I look around, I see bulbs saying they are for 12V DC, ones that say 12V AC, ones that say they will work on either, and ones that don't say anything other than 12V. Confusing, so I assume...

A friend of ours lives in a top floor flat in a stone-built Victorian semi-detached house, and has what appears to be condensation problems on just one wall in a bedroom. Main points as follows: The flats were converted about 20 years ago, and it looks to have been done well and to high...

Our washing machine has decided to play up today. When I press the start button, the LED above it flashes once, and the machine bleeps twice. It does this on every program. It is not reporting any error message. Wondering if the door switch/lock might have gone faulty? Thoughts appreciated...

A roof tile above a second floor flat we own has slipped completely. The management company were advised at the end of April, but still haven't sorted it out, or even given us any timescales - i.e. we're over seven weeks on now. I've escalated it a couple of times but they reckon the contractor...

The cream coloured bit of plastic was found in the bottom of the dishwasher this morning, and comes from the rear of the top spray arm. I can put it back in as shown with the red arrows, and slide the bit of plastic up in the side slots, but it doesn't lock/stay put, and I can't actually see...

I'm deliberating over connecting one into the house supply and had a couple of questions..... 1. I was shocked at how much even a manual transfer switch was. The cheapest option I found was a 125A DIN rail mounted c/o switch, in a small DIN enclosure and that was just under £100, but not a make...

Hi. We have a Siemens WI14S440GB washing machine - aka SI 14.44. It threw an F43 error the day, so I've taken it to bits and replaced the brushes (both of which had worn to under 10mm) - but the F43 persists. The new brushes are installed correctly and in contact with the commutator and the...

Finally had BG out to do the annual service on our boiler which we didn't get last year. We had the check booked in but it was cancelled twice by BG at the last minute due to other demands through the covid situation. The boiler was found to have a problem when it was checked yesterday. I...

In our flat, the immersion heater on E7 doesn't appear to have kicked in overnight on just one occasion earlier this week, needing the top (boost) immersion heater to be switched on. All has been back to normal since. The storage heaters on E7 were turned off, so we don't know if it was...

We own a flat close on 40 years old and the management company are replacing all the communal fire doors and also mandating the replacement of the individual flat outer doors too. The doors have never been changed on any of the flats, they have a wired glass window, look a bit on the ugly side...