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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello all! Quick question here. A few months ago we asked a builder to connect our rain water drain pipe to the main sewage drain in our back yard. When we moved into the house there was no drainage at all beneath the drain pipe, the rain water was just splashing onto the patio! Once he...

Hello all. After 5 years (!) of saving for a deposit, my wife and I have just moved into our first home, a 200 yr old cottage which is in need of some TLC. The first job was to try to sort a bit of damp we have on the inside of the back wall of the house. My initial thought was to drop the...