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Hi, I clipped the soil pipe on the side of my house when reversing my car up our driveway :rolleyes: It cracked around the T-junction where the horizontal pipe coming from inside the house joins with the vertical soil pipe on the external wall. I had the boiler serviced just before Christmas...

Hi, I got a new patio door fitted recently (June 2022) which I noticed has some dark patches along one edge inside (1st photo). The door and installation should be covered by a guarantee, but before I get the company out to take a look I wanted to get some advice about what might be causing...

Hi, I'm just wanting to get some advice as to whether it's advisable for me to have some/all of my radiators replaced. I had a new combi boiler installed about a year ago, shortly after we moved in. During the install the system as given a chemical flush. I had an engineer give the boiler its...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help advise me about what the likely cause of my problem is and suggest some next steps. During a recent night of strong wind and rain, I noticed a small damp patch in the corner of our bedroom. A small damp area in the about the size of a £2 coin, with a few...

Hello, I had two Dakea-brand pitched roof windows installed last summer. One of them is getting fairly hard to close. Normally you should be able to pull it shut quite easily and turn the handle to lock it, but recently it needs quite a bit of force to pull it shut. Looking at the window and...

Hi, I moved into a new home around 5 months ago. One issue we had to deal with early on was the CH rapidly losing pressure and lots of air filling the system - the combi boiler was old and had sprung a leak, so it was replaced with a new combi. However, I've noticed that it seems we still have...

Hello, I moved house recently and one issue that I noticed after a week or so was lots of trapped air in the CH. Two or three upstairs radiators had about 1/2 to 1/3 of the top feel cold. The system also had too little pressure to force this air out when bleeding the radiators (the boiler read...

Hi, The master bedroom in my new home is chilly compared to other rooms, for various reasons. One might be that there are several fitted wardrobes which back on to (cold!) loft voids - these are even colder than the main room. For that reason I want to improve the insulation of the wardrobes -...

Hi there, I'm wanting to have the floor in the bathroom re-laid, as the vinyl that is there is getting pretty manky and wasn't put down very well by the previous owners in the first place. I'm thinking of putting down some self-adhesive vinyl tiles, and I'm looking for some advice so that I...

Hi there, A while ago I replaced our toilet as the old one was broken. Unfortunately, the pipe for the water inlet was fixed to suit the size and layout of the old toilet, and as such it's too long for the new toilet. This means that if the pipe is just left to lie naturally, there will be a...