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I want to fix a coat rack to a hollow plasterboard stud wall using hollow wall anchors and I'm unsure about the size and length of anchor to use. Both the rack and the plasterboard are 15mm thick. The pre-drilled holes in the coat rack are 5mm. What would the recommended anchor size be? Any...

I want to put an Electric Heater in our fireplace to replace the old log burner I've recently taken out. I had to break the old register plate to get it out and I now need to put a closure plate in place, (not sure if closure plate is the correct term). What is the best material for this ? The...

Burner is old and beyond repair and we want to take it out and replace with a simple and quick to put heat into the room Electric Fire. I've done all types of diy but this is a first and I would welcome any guidance please on the order of work etc. We're in a bungalow so I can cap off the flue...

Any C/H Engineers "stuck at home" able to assist please ? I've got an oil fired Worcester boiler in my bungalow that supplies the c/h rads via a pressurised c/h circuit. The dhw is gravity fed from loft tank into the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. All controlled via conventional...

Evening All. Apologies if I don't get the terminology right. Thinking the brownish specks of gunge stuff coming from my hot water taps was due to the thin layer of gunge on the bottom of my plastic header tank in the loft I drained and cleaned the tank and drained the indirect hot water...

Can someone please help with this? My Ideal ISAR HE 30 Boiler has got a couple of minor water leaks, one from the pump 'flange' where it joins onto the body of whatever it is behind it (excuse my lack of pro knowledge) which is evident only by the scale that has built up around the 'flange'...

New conservatory with 50mm screed laid 4 weeks ago but floor still looks very damp. Condensation appearing on the windows overnight makes me think the floor is still too wet for tiling even though it looks dry. During the day the windows are kept open to aid drying out. I appreciate it`s...

I`ve got to drill three holes into the top (upside down) window reveal of our bathroom to hang a venetian blind. Any tips on "how to" on this ? Whatever type of drill ( diamond tip best? ) I use I cant use water to lubricate the drill bit as I`m drilling upside down with the drill pointing up...

Sorry, but in my earlier post I missed out the very important word in the title.....Gutter. Grateful for any ideas on how I can get round this one. We`re having a conservatory built so I thought it sensible to replace these 50 year old very rusty gutter brackets that will be awkward and...

Grateful for any ideas on how I can get round this one. We`re having a conservatory built so I thought it sensible to replace these 50 year old very rusty gutter brackets that will be awkward and difficult to access when the coni is built. The problem is that some of the screws holding each...

Our gas boiler flue on the kitchen wall needs to be extended on the outside to go up through a planned conservatory roof. Gas-Safe Eng tells me the parts are available and can be done fairly straightforward, by working in sync with the conservatory installer. The Eng tells me the air intake...

Thanks for all the replies re my last post about extending a boiler flue through a conservatory roof. That now seems sorted as the conservatory company have their own Gas-Safe fitter who will do this as the conservatory is built, but before this I would welcome guidance on this one please. I...

We want to have a simple conservatory built onto the back of the house butting up to the kitchen wall, therefore the kitchen wall mounted Ideal Isar 30 combi gas boiler flue that extends horizontally out of the wall needs to be extended vertically up to clear the roof line of the intended...

I have two mains wired Newey NL3602N alarms (one upstairs, one down) that are now at least ten years old and I would like to replace but these seem no longer available so I`m unsure what to replace them with. What is the prof advice for this? Is it as simple as finding units that have the same...

Any tips on this would be welcome please. In the summer my son and his wife had a radiator installed in their conservatory which, now they have come to use it gets lukewarm at best. The top of the rad gets lukewarm as does one of the 15mm pipes connected to the rad (I presume the flow) but the...

Bought some of these with a transformer online and I notice that the transformer plug does not have a fuse (or one that can be seen). Since ordering I`ve seen something on the BBC Watchdog program about "Made in China" plugs without a fuse that could be a problem. I simply plan to put these...

Can anyone advise on the following problem please? We have had to replace our worn out integrated washing machine and found that the kitchen cabinet door mounting brackets on the new one are in a different position, therefore the 35mm hinge holes on the cabinet door won`t fit as they don't line...

The Danfoss HSA3 three way valve is playing up on my elderly dads heating system, which it has done before but this time I cant get it to run normally. Previously I have taken the actuator off and lightly lubricated the mechanism which has worked, but not so this time unfortunately. Last...

Help please as to the cause of this prob. Boiler is an Ideal HE30. For maintenance last weekend I drained the system and put in a c/h cleaner, as we`ve been in the house less than a year and I didn`t know if or when it was last done). I ran the system as usual for a week and yesterday...

I`ve had an old low cill window replaced with a smaller one and the bottom 60cm of wall bricked up and I`m not sure how long the bricks/plaster etc take to dry out before I can hang a new radiator on the wall. The overall size of the new section of wall is approx 1200mm wide x 600mm high...