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Hi, Have a slow leak into the pan. Have taken the flush valve out to check the washer & notice that the bit it attaches to looks damaged. Can I get this replaced or do I need a whole new flush valve? Thanks

Hi all, Have a modern newish toilet cistern - 2 years old. Have noticed that the cistern keeps refilling for no reason. The water is very slowly leaking into the pan I have turned off the water supply, and within a couple of hours the cistern is completely empty. I have tried cleaning the...

En-suite toilet suddenly not flushing, without having to press handle quickly a number of times. Problem is, the cistern is boxed in behind a tiled wall and I can't even get my hand behind the wall to isolate the water. If I turn the water off to the whole house, would there be any way of...

Hi, I managed to fit a new 'Fluidmaster 400UK' cable dual flush cistern back in February. Everything fine until recently when we thought we had a ghost! Toilet flushing by itself - anyway, have turned off water, and the whole cistern has slowly drained back into the pan. It must be leaking...

Am trying to help my elderly neighbour out - thought it would be a simple, replace washer type of job, but can't even remove top of tap! It is a smaller, older style basin tap, but it doesn't have the decorative bit on top to take off hiding the screw? Towards the bottom of the tap, there...

My cistern hasn't been flushing properly for ages & actually stopped altogether so, after reading loads of info on here decided to do it myself and try to save a little money. I successfully drained, & replaced the syphon, donut washer etc, and put cistern back together (close coupling) My...

Hi, I am hoping to lay a laminate floor in our lounge. The room is the coldest room is the house, and so I was thinking about under floor heating mats. B&Q came & measured up, & gave me a quote for the job, but I have decided to get a known & trusted carpenter in to do the job. B&Q...

Hi, My OH's mate has installed new 12 x 50w halogen downlights. These are connected to a 2 gang dimmer switch, the other switch operates a low voltage light in the hallway. The chap did say that we would need to upgrade the switch to cope with 600w as the existing switch was only for 250w...

Hi, My upstairs loo keeps overflowing. It continually drips until level of water in cistern overflows. I have replaced the washer, have adjusted the arm of the ballcock to different levels, but, it continues to drip. Do you think I should now look at replacing the whole thing? Thank you

Hi, I am using an old Packard Bell PC (2000) wired to Telewest Broadband, running ME Windows. (Also have Linksys router attached for wireless laptop) I have been having problems with persistant crashes etc, and on advice from another site, downloaded the following, Ccleaner, Counterspy, I...

Hi, does anyone have any advice? End of last summer, I treated all my wooden garden furniture with teak oil and managed to get quite a few large spots on the patio Along with the usual grubby buildup over the winter, I have spent the day trying to clean it without much luck. So far, I...

Hi, could anyone tell me how I add a link? For example, if I'm trying to show a web page whilst on a forum, how do I actually give the exact URL address? I've tried to cut & paste but this doesn't work? I'm currently using Firefox

I thought I could give my bathroom a cheap 'makeover' by painting over existing tiles. I used 'international' tile primer & paint For about 6 months, it looked OK but now, some of the paint has started to peel off I have decided to buy new tiles & was hoping to tile over them, what...

I use windows ME & have recently upgraded to IE version 6 (prev using version 5) For some odd reason, whenever I try to sign into my home page on Expedia.co.uk I keep getting an error message stating that cookies are disabled. It tells me to go into Tools, Internet options, privacy & then to...

My parents have had to get a new boiler fitted last week, and my mum is concerned because when she is running the hot water tap, the water continues to run at hand-hot temperature - She rang the firm that fitted the boiler only to be told that the reason the water wasn't hot hot, is because in...

I'd like to drill a hole at least 4" dia in order to feed the hose on my tumble dryer throught my garage wall (brick) - Any advice on how I should do this & where I can hire/puchase a drill large enough for this job would be much appreciated!

My elderly parents are having problems with their boiler-Model no. VCWT3W - around 18 years old It keeps firing up, even though the heating isn't on, and they're not running any water, also, the occasional gas smell. They have contacted someone out of the yellow pages who said that...

I have just replaced some basin taps for cosmetic reasons, but when the area around the bottom of the tap gets wet, water drips through to the underneath of the sink. There is a washer under each tap, and a large platic nut under the sink to hold the tap in place-should there also be another...

Posted a problem recently & thankfully got it answered & managed to go ahead & complete the job of replacing an outside light. Great, however, when I first switch the light on, there is around 2 second delay but then it's fine, it stays on fine if left. Have I got a problem or shouldn't I...

I am hoping to replace my existing 2 x kitchen sink taps with a modern mixer tap - But how on earth am I supposed to get to the fittings which are behind the underneath of the sink bowl? I've recently changed my bath taps over & they were hard enough-at least I could just see both taps Any...