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I finally got around to having a look at this mixer tap today. It leaks when turned on, no leak when closed. When I took the lever off the top of the cartridge, and opened the tap, I could see that the leaking was coming from within the cartridge, between the interface between the plastic top...

Looking at my folks chest freezer, has a problem, not freezing down. Before I saw it, I was told that it was tripping the switch on the distribution board. When I got to it, I noticed that there looked like a bit of a mouse nest near the black compressor, and after hoovering that out...

Wasn't sure whether to put this in plumbing or doors forum, so decided on here, hope it's ok.... Have a bi-fold shower door, installed maybe 5 years ago, and the hinges are beginning to go a bit wonky. The side where it's fixed, those 2 hinges seem to be fine. In the middle, where it...

Is it possible to determine from the insides of a TV, by looking at the AV board perhaps, to determine what type of IR control would be needed to control the TV? My example, I got 2 *broken* identical TVs (but no remotes), and managed to make one working set from the parts from both, after...

Does anyone know of a good place to get replacement battery pack? I'm looking for one for a WaterPik, 2.4V, 1300mAh, the pack seems to be 2 AA Ni-MH's (see photo). I suppose I could bodge 2 AA's together, but I'd say ensuring continuity between the batteries is hard to achieve without...

Not sure if this topic might be suited to a different forum, but I'll try it here... I was up in the attic today, and was looking at the vent pipe for the ensuite, and noticed that it was sagging in a couple of places. Turns out there was water in a few spots. Anyway, I went to the end of...

Have a Hotpoint TCM570 here, and wondering about the operation of the water pump, the pump at the back-bottom that pumps the condensate up to the drawer. When the machine is operating, is the water pump supposed to be running continuously? When I was stripping it down to fully clean...