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I have recently moved into a property with gas. At some point today the boiler went on the fritz, with no hot water from the taps/shower and no heat from the radiators. I turned the heating on and inspected the boiler in the attic and see that there are no lights lit at all. I tried a reset...

Hi all, I'm looking to buy a new single electric oven, but I have noticed that some of them come with a 13amp plug. My problem is, my current setup and oven came with no plug and wired straight into a junction box to a separate cooker switch on the wall, and is on a different wiring system...

Hi all, I'm looking to buy a new single electric oven, but I have noticed that some of them come with a 13amp plug. My problem is, my current setup and oven came with no plug and wired straight into a junction box to a separate cooker switch on the wall, and is on a different wiring system...

I recently bought a metal frame bed, but once I put the mattress on top, is now far too high. So I want to lower the slat frame down the legs. The slat frame screws into two threaded holes on each leg (the bed is essentially white metal hollow tubing) so I'm going to use the bottom most hole as...

Hi, I have a set of gymnastic rings that I want to set up at home. Unfortunately I do not have any exposed beams or anything I can just hook them over. So I have been looking into how to attach them to the joists. The room I will be using is the middle floor of my house, so the joists above...

Hi, I have a pressurised heating system that is housed outside in a utility room outside of the main house (concrete floors that drain straight outside), with the boiler in another room beside it. I have noticed a small crack in an elbow joint that is leaking very slowly when cold, but a little...

I am tiling my bathroom (plan attached, floor area in blue) and using these tiles for the floor: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/43/ed/e5/43ede5d28bb99f1aaab09306b4a36be6.jpg The tiles are 20cm square x 1cm thick. Do I need to plan these differently when working out where each...

So I am replacing my current electric shower and retiling my bathroom. I need to remove the tiles that are currently under the shower unit and will probably need to replace the wall between it and the inside of the hot press. At present, it is plasterboard. Is there a special type of...

A very quick question. I will be tiling all four walls of my bathroom up to 3/4 high using 200x100 metro brick tiles. I understand that you use your vertical gauge rod to get the starting height for all walls keeping the bath height in mind, so that there isnt a bad cut at the floor. My...

My wife and I are redoing our bathroom and were wondering what to start. We have done a fair bit of tiling in kitchens, dining rooms etc, and are pretty good at it by now, but never somewhere where the wall tiles meet the floor tiles. My father in law says to do the wall first, then the floor...

Hi all, I have a single socket in the kitchen that was used for the dish washer. The dish washer has since been removed and i want to just put a blank plate over the old socket. There is a single live, single neutral and two earth wires (one coming from the cable and one from the current...

Hi, I hope this is the correct forum to be asking this. I live in an end terrace and on the corners of each room at the gable wall, the paint is peeling and bubbling off. There is also some wet looking staining on the wall, which are quite low down up to about waist height. I have...

Hi all, I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I moved into a house a couple of years ago that had a wood burner in the living room. A new header was installed in the breast with just a hole in the middle for the flue, and then the piping/lining all the way up to the top (at...

Hi all, I have a radiator on our ground floor that never gets beyond luke warm. I live in a three storey Victorian end terrace and the problem radiator is on the front outside wall. The boiler is outside at the back in a boiler house. All of the other radiators in the house are on an inside...

This may sound like a stupid question to those in the know (and likely is), but can I replace my standard heating programming controls, with a wireless system? Currently (for reasons known only to the installer and previous owner of the house) my heating controls are outside in a utility...

Hi, we moved into a property that had a wood burning stove fitted in the living room. It turned out that the stove was ridiculously dangerous so we removed it, to replace it with a cast iron fireplace. Initially we only wanted it to be decorative, but are wondering now if we can use it. My...

Hi guys, My end-terrace house was built in 1895 and so I assume it to have no cavity due to its age. However, in our dining room we removed the plaster down to the brick on the outside wall and noticed that the brick pattern is a regular pattern, not the alternating pattern typical with...

Hi all, I have a couple of very general questions regarding air bricks. I have an end terrace house built circa 1895. I can see two air bricks on the outside; one in the middle of the front, and one in the middle of the gable wall, both at ground level. I know these ones are to vent under...

Hi guys, I'm starting a new project in my house, to build some built in bookcases in my alcoves in my bedroom. I have some "floating" shelves down in my living room using this method: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/1X/floatingshelf-illo.jpg However, the...

Hi guys, I bought an old Victorian end terrace (built circa 1895) in the summer there. This is a pretty close diagram of the layout: Over the past couple of weeks, we have noticed quite large (large in terms of length), quite noticeable cracks appearing in a couple of locations about...