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As title. There don't seem to be any recent threads on this. I want to replace grotty carpets in three first-floor rooms, total area about 30 square metres. Suspended timber floors; all skirtings to be replaced and flooring taken to 10mm (or whatever) of walls; no underfloor heating. Underlay...

This is for where the Aqualock unit fits onto the standard dishwasher tap. Mine leaks. It's bigger and thicker than a normal 3/4" dishwasher tap washer, and has a profile rather than being just flat. Its external diameter is about 25mm and internal 16mm (hard to be accurate as its distorted)...

I've owned and bashed houses in North London since 1989. Was 30 years in N6, now in N14. Others might appreciate a few of my recommendations below. I have obviously not bothered with the sheds, Screwfixes or Toolstations, which are all around, or my favourite online sources. These are mostly...

I'd never used an auger bit larger than 12mm until recently. Trying a 19mm one, I found it so powerfully pulling itself into the wood that it overwhelmed both my cordless and my corded drills, both grinding to a halt halfway through. Apart from anything else they were very uncontrollable. I have...

I went to look over the newly-bought house of a young relative today (first time buyer, North East London suburb). At the back of the house I found this large grey plastic box outside fixed to the wall just above some decking. It does not appear to be linked to the double socket to its left...

Beko WIY84540F, 3 years old. Fine until yesterday when it overfilled halfway through a 2-stage cycle (when rinsing the prewash I think) and flooded the kitchen. The pressure switch seems to operate ok though not yet tested with a multimeter. The pressure hose is clear and intact. However the...

Some time last year I noticed in a B&Q that they now sell, separately, kitchen paint and bathroom paint; there used to be only combined kitchen and bathroom paint. I asked a young lady staffer how the new paints differed from one another. Her reply: "Oh, the kitchen paint is for kitchens and the...

Sealant gun, that is. It's a Tajima Convoy CNV100SP12, to be exact. Tajima do lots of different models but this is one of the ones that has what they call Auto Flow Stop, which is a posh way of saying that after every squeeze of the trigger, the piston retracts a few millimetres, enough to stop...

I hate all previous wiring centres: too cramped, too difficult to see what goes where, too easy to dislodge one connector while adding another to screw terminals. So the new(ish) Wago L60 is wonderful: spacious, easy to use 221-type lever connectors, everything well thought out.

There don't seem to be any recent posts on this. I'm considering a variety of 12v or 24v LED lights for my long thin garden: downlighters on fences, an uplighter under a tree, maybe some lights on pillars. Ideally would like 230v but that would mean either unwieldy SWA or NYY-J cabling needing...

Excuse ignorance but...I bought my 1930s North London semi last year. There is a gas boiler with a pressurised central heating system and pressurised hot water cylinder, and mains pressure cold water. On the top floor, converted from an attic into a bedroom and bathroom by the previous owners...

The government planning portal stipulates in respect of outbuildings under Permitted Development: "Maximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within two metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse." Does this no part at all of such a structure...

Keston C40 (don't mock: running perfectly 10 years on), S-plan. It started kettling around last November, or so I thought (no experience). A dose of Sentinel X200 quietened it a bit, or so I thought. Gave it a second dose. No real change. Eventually realised it was not the boiler at all, not...

I have a small, cramped top-floor bathroom. The bog and basin are adjacent to the plasterboard wall to the adjoining roof space, which is shown in the pic below. The bath waste, bog overflow and basin waste all feed into the main bog waste, which adjoins the soil stack just to the right of the...