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Hello I am having trouble with my pilot light in my potterton Flamingo boiler. A couple of months ago it went out. A heating engineer eventually got it going properly again by sheer luck, as it fired up just as he was about to give up. It has worked fine for these last couple of...

Hello I am fitting a Mira Excel BIR shower for the first time. I am installing into the cavity of a stud partition wall. I have all the plumbing sorted, and I am ready to tile up to the shroud. What the instructions do not make clear is what is meant to happen with the support backet...

Hello Hate to be so demanding, but I am about to order an entire bathroom suite, and I need to pin down the tap options sharpish to book a delivery slot. We live in a bungalow. We have a cold water tank in the loft, and a hot water cylinder at ground-floor level. Am I correct to assume...

http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/0-17112 Anyone have any experience of Architeckt showers? What makes one mixer shower better than another, and is there any reason that this Architeckt won't do the job for me? I have a gravity-fed separate hot and cold system with a standalone pump already...

Hello I hope you can see this photo either at: http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool05/1C/2E/09/70/6B/26/11/DB/89/70/BB/38/50/C0/0F/E5/oma/10/7C3AA8F06B2611DBB566B6E650C00FE5.jpg or http://richard-rooney.magix.net/userwebsite;jsessionid=rdqi6xoannlv.omaasp31?act=15&pos=0 I'm...

Hello I often use the laptop in the car for directions (autoroute) or for the kids to watch DVDs. I'm wondering about the possibility of using one of these...

Hello I'm dabbling with the thought of trying to convert the large attic of my 1990s bungalow into living accommodation, and have come across this new technology: http://www.telebeam.co.uk/index.asp Basically, they remove the bottom three rows of tiles, lay telescopic steel beams on top...

Hello My newish (to us) house is around 15 years old, and has wooden-framed double glazing. They were never maintained by the previous owner, and so I have had to sand them back to the wood to get rid of all the peeling stain and get back to a good, level base layer. They were very...

Hello, I have a 1997 Citroen Synergie 1.9 TD. A few months ago, the clutch began to give way, with the pedal shooting into the floor when I applied pressure. I could then pull it back up by hand, and it would be fine again for a while, then the same thing would happen. I ignored it for...

Hello I need to replace my existing ceiling rose, as it's an affront to decency. You should hopefully be able to see it at the bottom of this page, because I have just sold the light fitting...

We have just decorated the living room and need to replace the existing vertical blinds as they are now the wrong colour. However, they are relatively new and are in perfect condition. I'm wondering, therefore, if it is possible to dye such things. They have a very subtle blue tint to...

Hello, We have just decorated the living room and need to replace the existing vertical blinds as they are now the wrong colour. However, they are relatively new and are in perfect condition. I'm wondering, therefore, if it is possible to dye such things. At the moment, they have a...

Hello, We have just decorated the living room and need to replace the existing vertical blinds as they are now the wrong colour. However, they are relatively new and are in perfect condition. I'm wondering, therefore, if it is possible to dye such things. At the moment, they have a...

I have a Citroen Synergie 1.9 turbo diesel people carrier (stop laughing at the back!). Two weeks ago, the gear change became incredibly notchy, and got to the point where I had to physically force the stick into gear. It was especially bad in 1st and 2nd, but seemed to change. Sometimes 3...

I have drained my central heating system to remove two radiators in the lvingroom to decorate behind them. We had to drain the system as we couldn't get the thermostatic sides to shut off completely. Now that the system is drained and the radiators are off, I would like to take a couple of...

Hello, My hardwood back door is badly weathered, and I am planning to sand it down and treat it. I want to do a thorough job, so was going to take the door off the hinges and sand it down on my workbench. However, when I went to do so today I found that the hinges are of a type I'd...

As ever, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I have searched, but to no avail. We have just moved house and I now notice that the bottom of the window frames need some attention. The thin strip of stone or cement filler (??) has started to break up and needs replaced. I have...

I have a detached, single garage. I have notions of converting the rear quarter or so into some form of a computer room/study. There is a large south-facing single-glazed window with open views, and I think it would be really nice. I'm keen to get the PC out of the dining room, because I...

Hello, I have a single-storey timber-framed bungalow with a large loft on top, supporting the roof with trusses. The ground floor is rectangular, with dimensions of (roughly) 60ft long by 30ft deep. I know that roof trusses can be replaced with timber or steel beams to take the load...

Recently moved house and discovered that the mixer shower has all the force of an asthmatic centenarian. There is not a great deal of height difference between the water tank and the shower head. I was thinking about installing a power shower, but the old man suggests we put in a pump to...