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Hi - I have this mixer tap with a shower head. It’s dripping. When I turn the hot water supply off, it drips less and the same when I turn the cold water supply off. I can’t remove the piece that controls whether water goes to the taps or the shower head. It turns a bit and I’ve applied some...

Hi, just wanted to double check something. Just replaced an old three way switch (porch light removed as part of building work) with a two way switch. Pictures are before and after, does it look right please? Many thanks.

Hi, I’ve stripped paper off walls. The plaster is in good condition but there are imperfections so I can’t really paint them yet. The attached photo kind of shows the problem, ridges are maybe half a mm deep. I wondered if anyone knows a product I can use that doesn’t involved getting the walls...

Hi, I’ve had new windows put in and there’s a gap where the old windows where removed. I’ve attached a picture. I have a plasterer round next week to do the bathroom. Do I ask him to fill the gaps with plaster or should I do it myself with some filler? Many thanks

Hi - I want to get rid of this wallpaper border. It’s stuck quite well to the painted lining paper underneath and I’m worried about ruining the lining paper and then having to replace it. I fear that using a steamer will also soften the lining paper. Or that using some fine filler to fill the...

Hi, I have pinpointed the problem with the LEDs in my dining room not working to a single faulty driver. Now I need to replace it and I can’t find the exact model. Having searched for alternatives, I’m a bit baffled by the options. Could someone please be kind enough to post a link to what I...

Hi, hoping for some help. I have a Caple 1 boiling tap. It’s three years old and suddenly the electric boiler under the sink has started to trip the circuit board. There are no signs of leaked water and nothing else has changed. I have tried plugging it into another socket and it also trips...

Hi - today I have replaced 3 ceiling pendant lights in the kitchen. They are all connected to a dimmer switch. They look great but they don’t work! I got my multimeter out and found something that to me is strange so wondered if someone can help. At the first light on the chain, there are two...

Hi - I want to take a feed from this socket for an outside security light. Can I take a spur or am I better off replacing this socket with a double socket and just plugging it in? For information this socket is in a cabinet beneath a wash basin in the bathroom. Many thanks

Hi - my electric towel rail stopped working. I assume it’s the element. Stupidly, I’ve ordered one without taking the old one out to check the size. The new one will fit and it’s the right wattage, but it’s twice as long as the old one. Does it matter? Please see pic. The old one is in the...

Hi all, a bit of advice would be appreciated please... In my garage, I have two single flourescent lights/tubes. They are both run off the same switch. I’d like to add two more lights. Can I just take a feed from each light for each new light? Effectively daisy chaining. Many thanks in advance.

Annoyingly, I went to replace the push button of my wired doorbell today and have snapped off the wires and there’s no give. The chime is wired to the mains, so in terms of replacement, the ideal would be a mains powered chime with a wireless push button...but these don’t seem to exist! So...

Hi all - OpenReach came round yesterday to install my new fibre broadband line. Annoyingly there is concrete stuck in the duct where the phone line comes into the house so they can’t proceed. I really don’t want to have to dig the duct out. Does anyone have any genius ideas about how I shift...

Hi, I have an outdoor light with an inbuilt PIR. The house is opposite a field so at night it’s pitch black and one light is not adequate. I can see the cable in the garage that passes through the external wall to feed the light. What I want to do is basically remove the existing light and...

Hi, I am planning on putting two lighting bollards at the entrance of my driveway. The easiest feed is from the garage but in order to power both lights, somehow I need to cross a cable across the driveway! There’s a drainage channel at the entrance of the driveway to capture water run-off...

Hi, I have a outdoor socket which was installed by my house builder. I’m looking to install an outdoor security light. Maybe a silly question, but is it OK to use that socket permanently to plug/power the security light? It would save me from having run a separate feed from somewhere. Thanks.

Hi - we have a gas boiler (about 2 years old - Worcester Greenstar). The house is 2 years old. It runs the hot water and water-UFH throughout the house. As the weather’s become colder I’ve noticed that the thermostats in the rooms struggle to ever reach 20 degrees even though the UFH is...

Hi, I have an electric towel rail in my bathroom. The trouble is that I can only control it manually - on/off via the fused switch on the other side of the wall in the hallway. What I want is to program it so that it comes on a x time and goes off at y time. The only options that I can find...

Hi, need some advice on what I think is a faulty lightswitch/wiring. In our dining room, there is a 3 gang dimmer switch on the wall. Each switch controls the following: 1. A few downlights. This works fine. 2. Another 2 downlights PLUS lighting built into some wall-mounted shelving. The...

Hi, I need to test whether a thermostat is getting power. The thermostat is for underfloor heating in the kitchen. I know the thermostat itself is not faulty because I’ve tried swapping it with the one in the hallway and it worked fine. Therefore I’m assuming the fault is elsewhere, possibly...