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Thanks for the comments. Yes it does seem a coincidence. There’s another factor as well which adds to the coincidence. I’ve tried another shower head and that seems to work better. The original has an aerating eco function ie flow restrictor. What works even better is to have no shower head on...

My shower pump serves a shower two rooms away with an overhead run of about 8 metres. It has reed switches on hot and cold gravity supplies and starts up every time, but lately it wouldn't stop running when I turned off the shower. I descaled the shower head and this seems to have just about...

Thanks for responding. What there is is a terminal board with maybe a dozen terminals. The wires to the lights are all white so that's not much of a clue. I had 3 out of 4 wires correct and I managed to guess which one was wrong so it works now.

I just fixed the spark generator but whilst doing so also replaced the two signal lights on the front panel. One indicates the thermostat for the oven, and other indicates when the grill is on. The lights had been working but the casings had melted so it seemed sensible to replace them. Now I...

Many thanks - I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and replace the whole thing. Not cheap mind.

I have pumped shower system serving two rooms. It's been OK for at least 20 years, and the pressure is still good but it occasionally fails to pump when the mixer tap is turned on. After a delay it gets started but then sometlmes it's slow to turn off. The pump is an unknown brand - probably...

Do you know it is a septic tank? Regardless of the definition of Septic, a septic tank relies on bacteria to break down the sewage and the watery residue then usually discharges into a soakaway, or as a last resort after further treatment into a watercourse. The tank does need occasionally to...

So I elongated the riving knife adjustment slots and that works now but It seems the base plate is slightly bent and the saw isn't cutting at 90 degrees. I've got a 4 inch mitre box which I don't think has ever been used, so I'll give that a go. It's good to have other options.

The riving knife has never been off since I bought it. It's on its second blade in 20 years but I'm pretty sure it's right - I'll check though.

Brilliant. I think I need to take my angle grinder to the riving knife and trim a bit off. Or I've just thought of this, I can enlarge the adjustment slots. Many thanks.

I need to lower my kitchen table by 35 mm. The legs are turned but the top is 100 mm square section. I have a hand held Skilsaw Duran, but it can only cut 65 mm max in one pass. I can't do a partial cut then turn the timber because the riving knife prevents the blade moving forward. There's no...

Follow up if anybody is interested. I got a replacement flap from Bosch - £19 inc post. Quite easy to fit but if anybody does this make sure you study where wiring and a couple of springs go before you take it apart.

OK I got it sorted. Well it's not fixed but I got inside. It's mainly a matter of slipping some thin strips in the sides then pulling out from the bottom after removing one screw. I was reading about special kits you can get but I just used a couple of old credit cards. The flap is activated by...

Looks like I'm getting somewhere. I've found a spare parts catalogue with photos so I might yet get inside. I've even applied to Bosch for help, though I suspect they won't tell me unless I'm a professional fridge fitter.

Yes it does, and it makes ice. There's a screw mechanism to drive the ice forwards which works, but it just won't let it out down the chute.

The ice maker on my fridge freezer has stopped dispensing. It makes ice but the flap won't open. I find that there is a solenoid mechanism behind the front control panel but cannot find a way to access this. I've found videos of people sticking instruments in around the edge and unclicking it...

Sorry I wasn't clear. This is a gravity fed system with a header tank and it's got water in. There's an expansion pipe which drains in to the header tank and this wasn't hot at the tank. There's some sediment in the tank however so I wondered if this might have caused the problem. I had a...

I went round bleeding all the radiators with the CH on. Two tall rads were a really slow to bleed so I turned the pump speed up. Probably a bad idea. When I got to the bathroom it got quite noisy and I looked at the boiler and it was indicating 99 degrees. It's a Worcester Greenstar HE, about 15...

Genius. I’ve now found the studs using my own Special Tool (a length of 2.5 mm cable) and have cut out a small section of plaster to expose them. None are quite in the right place. I’m torn between cutting a couple of horizontal channels and fitting battens across, or removing a few short...

I have a small 60x60 cm radiator on my kitchen wall. This is an outside wall, at least 150 years old with 2 layers of brick and a lath and plaster inner liner. I hung the radiator using spring out plasterboard fastenings, but a visitor has accidentally fallen and partially dislodged it, damaging...