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Not sure if this is the right place, BUT.. I live in a 50's wimpey house - gas comes in to the meter under the stairs. All is fine. However, outside, roughly in line with the meter there's a tube, sticking up through the gravel. Roughly an inch or so diameter, short, cap of some sort...

I have 2 questions really, I suppose. I have clay soil - every winter, my back lawn turns from grass, to mud/moss, and water. Very slippy, very annoying. I've been in contact with a grass company who've suggested a mix that should do well in the conditions, but we have rabbits...

I own a 50's era Wimpey No-Fines 2 bed house, and I have..well, a couple of questions..heh. First one - in the living room, the ceiling has been wallpapered over - a LONG time past, if the uncovered brown, cracking, crumbling paper is any judge. The paper has been gloss painted, but it has a...

Last night, I knocked off our immersion at the fuseboard. It was either that, or try to fight the airing cupboard door, which was installed handle-less by the last owner, as it binds BADLY on the carpet, with my kids asleep. No contest. The house is a 50's wimpey concrete job, rewired when...

Our house is a '50s era Wimpey No-fines job, with the single skin brick utility out the back, off the kitchen. This is roofed with the corrugated Asbestos sheet (is that right? Grey, fibrous, quite old, original). At some point (I assume) this has been taken right up to the house and...

I live in a Wimpey No-fines house that had the external insulating render, a rewire and double glazing fitted in 1997. Now, I know the units are knocking on a bit, and certainly one needs a new hinge, but at night if you fail to draw the curtains fully, theres a hell of a cold draught. One...

We "aquired" with this house a built in candy Dishwasher. Haven't got the model to hand, but it's not massively fancy - integrated jobbie, 55/65 switch on the top edge of the door, along with a rotary programme selector. I'd guess at around 1997 vintage, as I know it had a new kitchen at...

In our house, we have a Homebase "Nautilus" bathroom suite. I'm sure it's the Nautilus. Anyway, it's become obsolete at B&Q. No problems with it bar the bog from hell - leaking CC donuts, knackered drop valve etc. It's all fine and dandy at the mo, bar a light crack in the pan base which...

We're just about to start redecorating and tidying our living room/diner in out 1950's wimpey house. The PO has nailgunned skirting along one wall that's completely the wrong level, height, and profile compared to the rest of it, so we're planning on removing that, as to be frank it looks damn...

Anyone here in Telford?!?! :lol: I've bought a Screwfix CC kit, and a 1.5/2in flush valve (Fluidmaster), and a 2in flapper (also fluidmaster), to replace the currently knackered drop valve in my loo (pacific single flush). No idea which one will be needed, so got both. I'm getting...

Yet more woes with my close-coupled loo...it had been dripping annoyingly for a month or 2, so at the weekend I shut off the isolator, drained the cistern and mopped the water out, then stripped the original bottom-fill ballvalve. All looked OK (if old and scaly), so cleaned it all up and...

I had a plumber here a few weeks ago, sorting out a leaking close-coupled loo. Turns out numpty PO (owned a building company apparently, god help clients if what we see here is anything to go on) did the piping, then put the loo pan in place, THEN realised the tank didn't quite line up with the...

Possibly the wrong word there... At the end (almost) of my drive, I have a metal drain/manhole cover..the drive is chipping originally, 2 rows of slabs for tyre grip, and then this cover, concreted in on all 4 sides by 6 inches of concrete. Now, over the years and previous owners, this has...

Walked into our tiled bathroom 2 days ago, and realised our tiles were squelching a bit...sealed floor (I think, certainly seems that way), small amount of water under the tiles by the loo. Further investigations led to me spotting a drip off the trap, that ran down the woodwork and to the...

I have a Y plan heating system running off a Baxi Bermuda, working fine, apart from one minor niggle. The 3 way valve is noisy. It ranges from "ticking", to "SCREECHwhirrwhirrwhirrwhirr" depending on what it's doing. Works fine, it's just extremely vocal. Which then reverberates down the...

I have a pullcord switch in my bathroom, that supplies 2x60w fixtures. It works fine, it's just ruddy noisy, enough to wake people if pulled in the night. So, in my wisdom (ha), I decided to purchase, from Screwfix, one 360degree PIR switch. No more bathroom lights left on, no more manky...

The house we've bought has a PIR on the rear of the house, running a floodlight. One of the cheapo square things. No problem with that, except when triggered it lights the garden fine, but also the bungalows over the back! Well and truly overpowered for the job in hand. So...given that...

Was having a ponder about decorating daughter playroom on Saturday, when I noticed that the radiator in there is quite rusty on the bottom edge. So I decided to poke at it, as you do. Fingers behind the radiator, I can feel quite severe rusting there. Fingers come away damp, and I can smell...

Just bought a house...it's nice enough. However, Previous owner had: a) A nailgun fetish b) A lack of common sense sometimes. All doors are quite new..stained to look older. ALL are warped, bowing in the middle. Some catch on the top of their frames, some catch on the back creaking and...

We've just bought a property that has an 8 way distribution board with MCBs, and it's working OK, BUT... The house has an attached utility room that was obviously separate at one point and has now been roofed over to join up to the main house. This has 1 double socket, 2 light sockets, AND 1...