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Hi, Asking on behalf of my mother.. Her 1930s house has an air raid shelter underneath the back lounge. There is even a small trapdoor under the lounge carpet and a sloped wall so the occupants could slide into the shelter in an emergency (never tried the slide myself as it is steep!) There is...

I am trying to replace a (dimmer) light switch like-for-like, but the wires coming out of the wall don't give me much to work with. I would like to extend some of the wires so it's easier to change the switch. I know about the standard plastic connectors to extend a wire but there is not much...

Hi, just after a bit of assurance that I'm doing the right thing with my patio plan. The patio will be next to the house and the other side meets the top of a wall, raised from the lawn. I was initially going to have a fall from the house to the garden so water would drain onto the lawn, but...

Hi, We currently have (rotting!) decking in the back garden. It is raised from the level of the lawn with hardcore underneath the joists. There is a single skin brick wall at the end that meets the lawn with a decked step down to the lawn. I am removing the decking and putting a patio down. As...

Hi, Our open plan lounge does not have a radiator towards one end, so we are looking to put one in. I've had a few plumbers round and it appears that it's difficult to get the appropriate (15mm?) pipes to supply a radiator at that end of the room - at least without massive disruption to the...

Hello, I wil try and use the correct terminology here but my plumbing knowledge is very limited so correct me if I'm wrong! I have a Macdee Duo Compact cistern (installed 2008) which has, for a little while now, had a leaky syphon. It leaks water into the top of the oblong float box and it...