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Polesapart - that's a great idea, thank you. Madrab - yes, i've been in touch with IS and emailed them photos. Just waiting to hear back. They weren't a great help on the phone though. I am replacing the front section on advice from a plumber. The hot side of the mixer tap has an...

Thank you oldbuffer, that's very helpful. I suspected an airlock might be the problem. Yes it is a vented system as you describe. So my next question is - how to go about fixing an airlock? Is it a job for a plumber? Many thanks again.

Hi there. Sometimes when we go to turn on the hot water in the bath (mixer tap), we only get a tiny trickle coming out. The strange part is that we can then leave it overnight, turn it on again in the morning and it's working a lot better. Can anyone help by listing a few possible causes and...

Hi there, I hope someone can help with a tap question - all help very gratefully appreciated. I am trying to replace (the front section only) of this Ideal Standard bath mixer tap (photos in my album here). I do not want to replace the tap 'tails' I think they are called (the upright...

Ideal Standard tap

Nuts are on the tails

Thank you. I'm always impressed by people's generosity on this site. Enjoy the weekend.

Hello. Just moved into a new house and about to paint the skirting. It looks to me as if this is 'pre-primed' skirting and has just never been painted. It certainly doesn't look like it has been brush painted. Sprayed maybe. It's a light grey colour. 1. Can anyone shed any light? 2. if it is...

Thank you for taking the time to reply - it's appreciated. Yes, the 2 lights are served by a single switch with a fuse. All the best.

Hi there. We have some lights mounted in top of glass display cabinets in our kitchen, which are now surplus to requirements. The cable is not buried in the wall, it just runs up the back of the cabinets. If I remove the connection to the light back to the next junction box, and leave these...

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Thank you... excuse my naivety. Is it ordinary for these to be hot and noisy or is there likely to be a fault? The fact it stops buzzing when I tweak the cable would suggest something isn't quite right.

Hello all! Hoping you can help. We have just moved house.. the new place has a Worcester Greenstar Ri boiler and a separate hot water tank. The boiler was fitted in April 2012 by a local plumber. The first night, after we had had the heating on for a while, we noticed that a pump (or...

Hi there all, We are adding some new woodwork to an original Victorian kitchen and I need to try to identify the original wood. I think it might be red oak?? This photo shows it when I sanded it back before oiling it so shows the true colour. The dust was a kind of reddish grey in colour...

Yes, we've tried to do that as far as possible. It's a terraced cottage and the damp is on an adjoining wall. So far to source the problem we have: Dropped level of back yard 8 inches Re-paved back yard, with correct falls including fitting new ACCO drain against back wall. Surveyed...

Hello all. A quick query regarding an interior wall in our kitchen which seems to suffer from damp towards the bottom every now and then (probably once every 6 months for a day or two). A strange recurring problem which I can only think is due to the earth the house is built on becoming...

.. for the brilliant advice. I've been researching ways to overcome my perfectionism, I think it will make a real difference to me if I can get past it. In my everyday work, being detail focussed really helps me to succeed, but doing home improvements is something I dread because I am almost...

Cheers Matty I think rushing is one of my problems for sure, some really great advice there though! The problems I am talking about are generally in getting a good finish, especially with wood. I have spent weeks sanding stairs and surfaces to what I think is a good fine finish only to get...

Hello, Sounds like a stupid problem, but I am constantly niggled by things that didn't quite work out as well as I had imagined they would around the house. I'm a relative beginner at DIY so there's a learning curve going on, I accept that, but it's hard to live with the results of that...