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Hi we have just moved into a new house which has a shower arm coming out of the wall to a rainfall shower head. Having looked at it closely the arm is at a slight angle and is off the wall by about 5mm at the top but touching at the bottom, almost like the weight of the shower head is pulling it...

Hi can I just check is the grey wire on my thermostat neutral/switched live and the brown one live? If I swap the thermostat with the salus rt300 I presume I just need to swap these two wires and properly isolate the black one? many thanks for your help

Hi I am looking to knock down two walls to make my kitchen area bigger. The walls are part of a single story extension carried out by the previous owners. I will get a specialist in to have a look but with COVID at the moment I was wondering if anyone could give me an initial thought virtually...

I have recently moved into a house with a large area (about 59m squared) of tiles on top of a wet underfloor heating system. Half of the space is in the original house and so has wooden floor joists with (I presume) the pipes running between the joists somehow. The other half of the space is an...

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help. I'm looking to get a builder to knock an internal wall down, however i was wondering if anyone would be able to tell if it was likely to be load bearing. The wall is made from studwork and is part of a single story extension. The wall in question is the...

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help. When we moved into our house it was full of high watt spotlights. I have systematically changed these for GU10 LED bulbs. Across the house I have removed the transformers for individual 12V bulbs and replaced with mains voltage GU10 light holders. When i...

Hi I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice. I'm looking to install a tado smart heating system in my house but i have a slightly complicated system and so i wanted to just see if anyone knew if it would work. If it was straight forward the plan would be to do it myself but if not i'd...

Hi I've searched all the pages and can't find an exact answer to this issue. We have a sealed heating system with the hot water tank on the third floor and the boiler on the second. At the moment we have one radiator in the attic room (highest radiator) and it won't fully heat up. It is warm at...

Hi if anyone has any help or suggestions i would be really grateful. We have two chimneys,one is in use and one is not. The roof was re tiled last summer. At the moment we are noticing more and more damp patches in the bedrooms on both chimney breasts (see the photos). I'm not sure if it is a...

Hi any help would be appreciated. We have been having a new roof on a 1920s house. In the ripping out stage we have come across a beam which has signs of woodworm (small holes dotted over it in one section). I got some specialists in and they said that I needed to treat the beam and then have...

Hi I'm a DIY novice and have just done something pretty stupid. I've drilled a small hole in my artex ceiling to hang something from. I've now just been reading about the dangers of artex and asbestos. The house was built circa 1979, what's the chance of asbestos being present? Is there anything...

Hi I'm a DIY novice and have just done something pretty stupid. I've drilled a small hole in my artex ceiling to hang something from. I've now just been reading about the dangers of artex and asbestos. The house was built circa 1979, what's the chance of asbestos being present? Is there anything...