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To save money I have installed most of the new kitchen myself and it looks very nice. However, I am stuck on a couple of points and the instructions received with the flatpack / online are useless: 1. How to fix the drawer runners on the 1000mm base unit - when attached directly to the carcass...

I have just had a Clearview Pioneer 400 stove installed into the old fireplace in my Victorian Terrace. The HETAS engineer that we used wasn't able to obtain the wood in time for the surround and mantle that I am after and given that this should be a simple job - I had planned to have this...

Hi, I live in Croydon and have just ordered a survey for installation of a log burning stove from a company I found on google. They quoted me over the phone a ball park figure of £2,000 - £2,600 to include the stove and liner etc but will provide a firm quote after the survey. I don't...

I have 2 functioning BT phone sockets upstairs in my house but the downstairs socket does not work but from following the wiring it appears to be wired up. Is there any way to check whether the cable running into the phone socket is live as if it is I can re-wire it to a new socket.

I've just replaced the old light fittings in the lounge which are 2 separate fittings powered by a single dimmer switch. Light fitting 1 contained a ceiling rose and I located the switch (black) cable and wired that to one terminal. The other two black cables I wired to the other terminal in...

I've just replaced the old light fittings in the lounge which are 2 separate fittings powered by a single dimmer switch. Light fitting 1 contained a ceiling rose and I located the switch (black) cable and wired that to one terminal. The other two black cables I wired to the other terminal in...

Have had a look inside the cistern and there is no ball cock, which is the only design of cistern mechanism I've seen before. The toilet flushes from buttons on the top and there's no problems there. The tap that fills the cistern doesn't stop flowing and no amount of fiddling seems to fix...

Am trying to get a rough estimate for a side-return extension to a Victorian Terrace. The side return has already been extended to form a utility room with breezeblock external walls and plastic sheet roof. From reading around, a rough guide in London (I live in Croydon) is £3000 per...

instead of 3 in the usual Rose fitting? I've bought a new pendant lightshade to fit and removed the original rose fitting to discover 5 cables wired to the fitting. Is it a case of getting a 5 cable connector instead of the 3 and following the usual procedure to wire up the new fitting...