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Hi All! My son in his early 30s has never driven, now has a young family and is coming to live with us in the UK after being abroad for 9 years. He's anxious to want to learn to drive asap, and I'd like to get him a smallish suitable family car. I watched an episode of Wheeler Dealers Dream Car...

Hi Peeps! I'm unsure how best to approach this, so thought I'd ask for your esteemed opinions. A bedroom I'm fitting out has that rather mundane chamfered 7cm skirting,which I'd like to replace with something a bit more modern, like pencil top stuff. Anyway, this bedroom on the 1st floor is an...

Hi All! 2 questions actually... No, 3...Am about to re-lay loft insulation over a bathroom after a refit which included led downlighters. Can't get any info from supplier of downlighters if it's OK to insulate over the top of them, so assume it's not. Q1: can you get covers for the...

Hi All, I need a new consumer unit - the old one is a Square D, and I need an uprated mcb for a more powerful shower - anyway, the electrician says I need to have the supplier come out and fit an isolator and the work should be free of charge... he also said its illegal for him to pull the main...

Hi All! Am replacing a smaller imperial sized rad with a wider metric one. The old rad brackets are attached directly onto plasterboard with those anchors that you attach with a setting tool. The wall is now tiled with ceramic tiles , except where the brackets are. (I tiled around the...

Hi All! My rising main stopcock or stop valve has started weeping from the gland nut all of a sudden and after years of being OK. (house was built 40years ago) I've tried tentatively to tighten the gland nut, but the stop valve is twisting so I need to take some precautions 1st - especially as...

Hi All! Had a little accident a few years ago while in tbe loft and put my foot through the ceiling to the room below. This ceiling was beautifully artexed. Anyway, patched it up from the room below (spare room) with a batten, but years later need to return this room to a living space, so got...

Hi All, can't seem to find these excellent very white light slightly larger than the standard gls bulb, that gives a light output from the whole bulb, not just the bottom half. I find them great in bathroom and workshop alike. Used to find them in Asda and Wilko,... not any more... anyone know why?

Hello! My neighbour has a wooden shed next up his house and has asked me to advise him for the right way to provide power to it for a fluorescent worklight (not powerpoints) looking for some pointers from you experts, please. Can't find anything on the wiki, the one thing there is a dead end.

Anyone else had this? Thought it was the drum bearings gone as the drum had a lot of play in it, so bought a bearing kit + drum seal BEFORE opening up the machine and splitting the tub. Any guesses from you experts out there? it wasn't the bearings, they were perfect for a 10 year old machine...

Hello All, I drove in my very 1st 4ft 3/8" earth spike today...feeling VERY macho wielding the lump hammer, but....using my dvm was only getting 3.5MegOhm , which, after watering the spike hole, improved to 1.5MegOhm . By comparison, the earth to neutral reading I get using the earth bonding on...

Title says it all really, don't laugh, (ok, you can laugh) but the knockouts are determined to stay put! Don't want to scratch the paint to bits, so anyone any tips for best practise please?

Hello All, any idea why these 3.5mm screws, the type normally supplied with sockets, switches, etc, which have an unthreaded tip to facilitate locating into the threaded tab, are apparently unobtainable? All the ones I've seen for sale recently are just threaded right to the end...or can anyone...

Hello All, my neighbour recently had the w/m repair man out from KnowHow, and to pull the w/m out without ripping the cushion floor, he had what my neighbour describes as cups with ball bearings on the bottom, and he lifted the front of the w/m up and inserted these cups under the front feet and...

Hello All, my daughter has recently had a new kitchen installed, and the fitter has plumbed in a kind of U-trap under the double sink that I've never seen before as it includes a nozzle (which is currently plugged), and apparently is intended for the washing machine drain pipe to be pushed onto...

Hello All, wonder if you can help/advise me here... my daughter has a 1920s house and I want to re-route the water pipe into the kitchen. Currently, the incoming feed and stopcock are in the adjoining toilet, in 1/2" iron pipe. From the stopcock, the iron pipe rises to a T-piece which feeds the...

Hi All, my daughter's new (but old-1920s) house only has a very thin-1-2mm earth wire down to what I presume is the original earth rod. It's a TT circuit, so just L and N are supplied. I'd like to install a better earth via a new earth rod....any tips/advice please? Cable size 10mm ? Thanks

Hello, my elderly mum's WMA40 has a leak behind the bottom weights at the front of the drum. I removed the weights to have a look, and a bonded seam is leaking. My question is: if I replace the front half of the drum, is there a gasket or sealant required between the 2 halves that I'll have to...