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Morning guys, I've got a leak and I've traced it to the pipe that’s leaving my boiler which connects onto the same waste pipe as the sink and then into the stack pipe. It’s a connector half way down the flexi pipe that the leak is coming from and I can see it’s all manky, so it just looks like...

Hi all, Our bedroom simply will not get hotter than 16 degrees! We’ve got a baby on the way and his cot is in our bedroom so we’re trying to work out how to make it warmer for him. I’ve re-sealed the windows, which are double glazing. I’ve put the heat reflective foil behind the radiator. I’ve...

Hi there people, This morning our boiler stopped working, I reset it but to no avail. We keep getting either F1 or F6 fault codes on it, F1 being Ignition Fault and F6 being Central Heating Flow Thermistor. We've also got no hot water. So no central heating or hot water on a day like this is...

hi guys, i bought my first house late last year and now the weathers turning nice(ish) it's time to sort out the garden. i'm buying my shed soon and want some power for it; so in the garden already there is this....... which i believe was used when the guy before us had a caravan in the...

hi guys, i bought my first home late last year and now the weather is looking like its starting to turn nice - i need to sort the garden out! I'm a complete novice with garden stuff and basically just want to know: 1/. Do i still need a 'shed base' if my garden is flat and block paved? 2/...

hi there, i've just moved into my new (and first) home. the boiler is in the loft along with the timer switch, and the thermostat is a wireless digistat unit. so at the moment we have the heating set to timer so obviously it comes on and off when we want to. but after reading and re-reading the...

hi there people, i've had my record player for around 10-12 months now, it's my first deck and i've never had any experience in changing any of the bits before. Recently as i'm playing a record, after a few seconds the sound becomes really distorted. It's not the speakers 'cos i've changed them...

Hi, Me and the other half have just bought our first house and so are now having to start buying stuff for it. I'm looking at ordering a quite a bit of bathroom stuff off of this website - www.soak.com - Does anyone know what the quality of the items are like (cheap crappy or actually decent)...

hi guys, Me and my other half have just bought a new house and basically, the seller has got his mate to fit new windows and doors but hasn't completely finished the job. The actual windows and doors are in, but there are gaps around the edges of them all - almost as if there should be clip on...

guys, i want to change the doors around so they open the other way on my fridge freezer, how difficult is this? is it a quick 5 minute job or more in depth than i assume? cheers

hey guys, any help would be massively appreciated. Over the last year or so my mk4 has this problem which only seems to occur when i go over 80 odd mph, then once i slow down to a standstill the revs would keep dropping really low on the verge of stalling so the whole car shakes, and the...

hey guys, any help much appreciated. Me and my better half have just moved into our first flat together and in the front room and hallway we've got these storage heaters. Neither of us have ever used these before and the managing agents are quite crap when it comes to helping us. So...

hi guys, trying to sort out my better half's TV. she's recently moved into a shared house and within her room is a tv aerial, now i haven't had much experience regarding digital tv as my own tv has a built in aerial. the tv (according to her parents) has the ability for digital channels...

hi guys, recently had a problem with the car where when it starts from cold and the engine is warming up, all the lights and electrics in the car would dim for a second intermittently every 5 seconds or so and the engine seemed louder and with a high pitched whirring noise. once the car was...

hey guys, recently got this home cinema unit and am trying to connect it so my ps3 plays through it as 5.1. At the moment it goes; hdmi from tv to ps3 - ps3 to aux in through phono to the unit. this is ok but the center and two rear speakers don't work. i've also changed to audio settings on...

hi all, I've had my magic eye set up for ages with my old sky box but have recently upgraded to sky+ HD. now im just wondering, do i get HD quality coming up through the magic eye to the second tv? im trying to check but besides flicking backwards and forwards between channels i cant really...

i'm trying to wire in my new dimmer and thought it would be a matter of simply swapping it, but the icons are different on my new unit and im not totally sure. On the current one it has 2 red wires going into the L1 port and a yellow wire going into a port with C and an arrow under it, it's...