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Hi guys. My heated towel rail was installed in 2012 and works great but the corners of most rungs are rusty and the chrome flaked off. It hasn't got worse as I now always make sure to dry the rails after a shower. It's a very small bathroom which does have a humidistat fan over the bath and I...

Hi. Whenever I turn the shower or bath tap on I get water flowing into my toilet (situated next to the bath) from the toilet cistern and that gives me less water pressure when using the shower. I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't know if it's the inlet or outlet valve that needs cleaning or...

Hi guys. My gas engineer is coming to service my boiler in a couple of weeks. Last year he added Fernox F4 Express leak sealer into the boiler which works well. He set boiler pressure to 1.5 last February and it dropped to 1.3 shortly after but has stayed at 1.3 which is fine. Before using...

Hello chaps. The pull string for my 9 year old bathroom mirror light pull string has been threatening to stop working for a few months. I'd pull it and nothing would happen but eventually, say a day or two later, I'd pull it and it would turn on or off. For the last week or so I've had no luck...

Hello chaps. I bought this fan a few weeks ago from Toolstation to replace my old one which stopped working and it's installed above the shower. https://www.toolstation.com/airvent-100mm-selv-12v-low-profile-extractor-fan/p74009?searchstr=74009 It works and in the first week or so it would...

Hi guys. After I finished my outdoor painting of concrete window sills, I've struggled to get a few remaining bits of masking tape off. I don't think I should have left it on for as long as I did, but it's also cheap masking tape. There are a few pieces that didn't come away and are stuck to the...

Hello chaps. I've never done any brickwork in my life but decided to have a go at replacing half a brick that was missing in the front wall of my house. Well actually, on my neighbour's side. He mentioned it to me one day while we were chatting and I said I'd have a go at it. I wonder what you...

Hi guys. With 80 grit paper and a rubber sanding block I sanded down all the paint on the masonry around my front windows. I've bought some Touprelith F to fill some cracks and bare patches before painting. I opened the cracks a little more with my filler knife. The bare patches are where I...

Hi guys. A few questions if you don't mind. I've got maybe half a dozen small and very shallow patches (like about a millimetre depth) of bare masonry stone where I've taken off flaking paint. I've bought a box of Touprelith F filler. Can I spread the filler straight onto the masonry or do I...

I've washed down and sanded the old paint on all the masonry fascias, window sills and upright masonry posts around my front upvc windows and will be filling some cracks in the sill and then painting the masonry with white Sandtex. The white upvc window frames are 8 years old and looking a bit...

Hi guys. I better give some background first. My house is an old edwardian era terraced and there's always been a bit of a damp problem in the kitchen along only one of the two exterior walls. In 1987 when I bought it I had a DPC installed which didn't really seem to be much good. I had the...

Hi guys. I'm thinking of repainting all the vertical stone frame and the sills. It was last painted by professionals in 2016 I think. Can I get away with sanding over the paint just to key it and then repainting with the ultra smooth Sandtex masonry paint I have? Otherwise it's going to take a...

Hi guys. I've got a question about pointing as I've never done it. I've watched a couple of videos and out of recessed pointing and bucket handle pointing, I think bucket handle looks a bit easier and looks very nice. I won't bother with weatherstruck as it looks more difficult. Would you...

Hi guys. I've never done any work with cement and sand until today. Yesterday I bought coarse sharp sand and general cement from builders depot. That was to refix a patio slab which I've done now. Builders depot recommended coarse sharp sand. I thought they might suggest fine sharp sand or...

Hi guys. I've lifted a patio slab that was rocking when stepped on and also had some broken pointing. There's loose sand underneath which I've piled to one side and it was covering a bit of a cavity or dip in the area under the slab. I'm wondering whether to pat the sand back down and just put...

Hello chaps. I'm useless with electrics but am having a go at installing my new ceramic (non induction) hob. Having disabled the mains for the hob at the fuse box, I've removed the wires from the old hob. According to the instructions, I've screwed in a couple of jumpers bridging two neutral...

Hi guys. Last night I got alternating codes 'F.54 Fault Appliance Start' and 'F.28 Failure in startup Ignition Unsuccessful'. I pressed the black ignite button and the screen lit up saying 'loading..' Then I heard some whirring noises as it presumably tried a few times to ignite because a burner...

Hello chaps. I've put a wardrobe together (not new) but two of the hinges won't stay fixed, they pop out. The 2 holes in the top of the left door and the two holes in the bottom right of the wardrobe (not door) have obviously lost their integrity. I was going to try stuffing with 2 or 3...

Hi guys. My Baumatic built in microwave has performed flawlessly for 8 years. But since a couple of days ago there is now a god awful buzzing when the door is closed. And when the door is left open, something creepy happens after about 5 minutes, the turntable starts turning very slowly by...

Hello all. My fence has never been painted or stained since it was installed a few years ago. It's all in pretty good shape but starting to show some signs of discolouration from weathering so it's time to protect it. I don't know if it was pre-treated from new, I guess it would have been...