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I'm looking to get a new gas/electric range. For now we're planning on leaving the kitchen as is. I also don't want to move the current cooker (positioned in old fireplace) until the new one is here if you see what I mean. How easy will it be to instal a new circuit and fused spur around the...

Hello! I'm going on holiday tomorrow. We have a sealed pressurized CH system with a Vaillant ecotech plus boiler. We then have an RM Unvented Cylinder. Had a leak recently in our bathroom pipes so now terrified of leaks whilst we're away. So if I want to turn the water off before we go away...

We have a mystery damp patch on one of our upstairs chimney (unused) breasts. Have had the chimney repaired/repointed by various people but the damp remains. It's not really getting any bigger over time so don't think is water ingress. Directly below it is a cooker installed in the closed up...

Looking to install a new boiler and unvented cylinder in our airing cupboard. Space is fairly tight especially as the flue has to slide past the cylinder and out the wall. Hence thinking we might need a slimline model. Seems these only really go up to 210l (bar a couple of lesser brands). We are...

Came home from a night out yesterday to find a scary letter from a property company working for the landlord (CoE) next door. Apparently our shared chimney stack needs rebuilding (Victorian terrace). The total quote is coming in around 5k (see attached) which presumably they want me to pay half...

I'm getting my downstairs bathroom done. Replacing the mixer shower. The system is a gravity system, cold water tank in the loft, boiler and hot water tank in airing cupboard on 1st floor and the shower is on the ground floor. The current 10 year old mixer works fine pressure wise and is a 15mm...

I inherited the above boiler on our new house. All works fine despite looking fairly old. One of the rads wasn't warming up so I bled it but after the hiss of air no water followed. I had a modern boiler in my old house and after you bled the rads you had to refill the system under the boiler...

Hi, I've got some damp spots in a 2nd floor bedroom close the the ceiling. They're quite bad effectively along the gutter line outside but there's also a smaller section further down (see pictures). They are located where the chimney flue for the kitchen chimney is. My initial thoughts were...

Last night I needed some hot water quickly so switched on the immersion heater which is normally switch off. There was a loud bang. The Honeywell control unit which is attached to a fuse next to the immersion heater switch/fuse went blank and the boiler shut down. I tried changing the fuse...

Hi, We just bought a house and in the info pack there's an invoice dated 2002 from a corgi engineer titled 'tested gas and electrics to cooker'. It goes on to say 'advised miss x cooker not fitted to latest specification (cooker tube loop and stability brocket not fitted)'. When you first...

Hi, We're in the process of selling our home. Whilst living here I have replaced the Kitchen on a like for like basis with some minor movement of the electrics. I have also put in a new bathroom but on the other side of a stud wall if that makes sense. So the old spare room is now the...

Hi, I live in an end of terrace Victorian house in London. The pointing is in a bad way and is made worse by the house being painted an awful terracotta colour. I've had some brick refurb firms quote up to 15k to re-point the whole house, strip the paint and restore the bricks to their...

Hi, Had a few quotes to get a new 30SI installed as a replacement for my old boiler including power flush and wireless thermostat. They were 1900, 2200 and 2500. With the bigger two done during the cold snap! Anyways accepted the lowest quote as he was a WB register installer and could give a...

Hi, Just done up the kitchen and I've got an electric oven underneath a gas hob. The gas pipe to the hob runs from the floor to the hob directly behind the oven about 3 cm off the wall. There's not alot of space back there and I presume the back of the oven is touching the gas pipe to some...