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    Kitchen electrics going mental!!

    Hi guys I had my kitchen decorated in 2013 and since then ive noticed the electrics in my kitchen seems faulty. When the decorators were in one of the lights kept blowing the bulb and also the fuse box (it's a really old fuse box). This was sorted and then the plasterer got a shock when...
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    Rat in the loft!! At wits end!!

    Not sure if I'm posting this in the right place but here goes. A week ago I started noticing scratching noises in the ceiling above my bedroom. Being petrified I called a private pest control company and the guy called the next morning. He's put bait under the floor boards, all through the loft...
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    Crumbling wall next to internal door frame and front door

    Hi guys I had some areas of damp sorted out in my front room last year. It was under the window just above skirting boards extending to the wall where the internal door is leading from the passage to my living room. I was very pleased with the results but now I've noticed that on the other side...
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    Banging/clunking noise when I turn hot tap on - baxi combi

    Hi guys over the past few days I've noticed my boiler or pipes are making a strange noise when I turn the hot water tap on. It's like a banging/clunking noise (that's the only way I can describe it). This stops as soon as I turn the tap off. What could this be? I pay a monthly cover with...
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    panicking about possible asbestos exposure :(

    Hi guys my house was built in 1968/1969 and originally had a seperate kitchen and dining room. At one point (not sure when) this was made into an open plan kitchen/diner and the back door was bricked in and patio doors put in. I had the kitchen decorated and plastered in 2013. There was artex on...
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    One pipe heating system ...babys radiator lukewarm at bottom

    Hi guys I had a new boiler fitted in 2011 (baxi combi) and the plumber at the time said it was a one pipe system but he had fitted a few on my street and it would be fine. Actually he was right and over the last few years I've replaced all my radiators (which were really old) with double...
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    Blocked kitchen and garden drain ....help please

    Hi I have a small patio'd back garden and noticed last night when I emptied the bath water was coming out the drain on the patio. Then saw that water was backing up out of my kitchen drain as well and flooding the patio. Will this cost a fortune to fix? My dad has looked for the man hole but...
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    Blocked drains ....help

    Hi I have a small patio'd back garden and noticed last night when I emptied the bath water was coming out the drain on the patio. Then saw that water was backing up out of my kitchen drain as well and flooding the patio. Will this cost a fortune to fix? My dad has looked for the man hole but...
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    Bricks look wet below window

    I noticed two little damp patches below my front room window (just above the skirting board) - there were a few weeds growing from the brick work outside and i had these pulled out and new cement put in. This seemed to do the trick and the damp patches didnt get any worse. However, ive noticed...
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    new baxi boiler leaking when heating is off

    Hi I had a baxi duo-tec combi put in in october last year. It has been fixed once already (a sensor had gone in it and i had no heating - apparently mine is only one of two boilers that baxi had had problems with) and now i have noticed it leaking. Its not leaking loads just drips here and...
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    no hot water unless heating switched on - new baxi combi

    Hello I had a new baxi combi installed last october. I switched the heating on for the first time in a few weeks last night and everything was fine but this morning I have no hot water. The heating is working fine. When I turn hot tap on the green light for the hot water comes on but temperature...
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    boiler completely shut down :(

    Hello there, had a new baxi combi boiler put in last october and on friday night i had the heating on everything was fine then sat morning - no hot water so i had a look and the display was totally off, it wont switch on or off its like its completely dead - any ideas. i hope this isnt a major...
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