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Hi all, This morning heard the dreaded dripping sound coming from my boiler cupboard, opened it up to take a look and sure enough there's water dripping from the pipes. The leak seems very small - maybe a drip every 20 seconds. Had a good look round with a torch and the leak seems to be at...

Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot two lights that have recently stopped working. They both stopped working at the same time. One is a ceiling-mounted MR16 bulb, the other is the outside light where the cable emerges near the front door. These two lights are physically close so I suspect that...

Hi all, Just noticed that a chunk of wall a couple of inches across has come off the corner of the outside of my kitchen wall (see pics). What should I use to patch it up?

Hi all, I have an Alpha CB24X boiler that is losing pressure very slowly - I would estimate that it drops by about half a bar over the course of a week. As long as I keep topping up the pressure, it works perfectly. From reading around on this site and others, it seems like there could...

Hi, I have an area of my garden about 2 meters by 3 covered with paving slabs. Because we have dogs, we need to clean this bit of the garden regularly with a hosepipe, however because the slabs are laid completely flat, the water does not drain off but just pools on top of the slabs which is...

Hi all, I'm looking for thoughts on a damp patch that has recently appeared underneath the window sill in my bedroom. Wide shot of the whole window bay: Shot of the corner of the window showing the weather seals: Looking down the outer bit of the open window - inside on the...