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Hello I have a window like this, attached. I can open it wider so the pane is parallel to the ground, but it doesn't stay like that. It falls back to this position. How can it be "held" in the very wide open position? I have a similar window in the house (but smaller) and that is more...

Hello I have a large kitchen to paint in the next few weeks. It was last painted by the previous owners, maybe 8-10 years ago. As can be seen in the second photo, some of the paint has peeled off. The same sort of peeling has occurred in a few small places in the kitchen. As can be seen in...

Hi I am preparing/repurposing a bedroom into an office. It was last painted three years ago in the same colour (white with a hint of grey), but has had a fair amount of wear and tear in that time, new holes and cracks on the walls to fill, marks/scuffs etc. I have prepared the walls for...

Hi Part of our garden is tiled, and there are a few steps up to the lawn. There is a gap between the floor tiles and the walls, you can probably just about see the gap in the attached picture (ignore debris and poor lighting). The gap, narrow as it is, exists all around the area at the...

Hello I have a downpipe that leads water to a flat roof, and I want to direct it elsewhere. The photo shows...I want the water to go through the opening on the right. There is a "catcher" just through there, which will then take it down to the ground and to safety! What do I need to buy to...

Hello Probably an easy answer to many....but not to me! This is a picture of a room under construction, a few weeks ago. There is now a window where I've drawn a blue square. I think plasterboard was added, and the painting has been done. I would now like to add a blind over the window...

We have some garden tiles in our garden, on a flat area and on three steps. Three of them have come off. I attach a picture of one that I've lifted up, with what is underneath. I've also noticed that the grout (?, ie the stuff between some other times) has cracked or generally doesn't look...

Hi I have some shelves to put up, that haven't come with any fittings/screws etc or fitting instructions. Here is a picture of one end. The other end has the same thing. How would I put this up? The wall is in the bedroom and it's an exterior wall - brick. I have a variety of screws and...

Hello The side of our house is a brick wall. It is also the back wall of the neighbour's garage. We quite recently moved in, there may have been some party wall agreement in place but nobody can find it. The wall, visually at least, isn't in great condition. The neighbour now wants to put...

Hello I'd like to paint some internal wooden doors to restore the whiteness of the current paintwork. The doors each have some cracks in them like in the pictures attached. What would the best approach be? I have decorators caulk and a polyfilla equivalent but can also fairly easily get to...

Hello We have a small exterior wall with peeling paint. Some bits of paint have fallen off themselves, the rest I reckon can fairly easily be scraped off. I would like to repaint the wall and not sure of the best way to do this. I can see that under the paint is a layer of sand (render?) and...

Hello I've been researching sheds recently and shed bases. I have a question firstly about what's best for a base - a wooden frame kit or a plastic base kit (I've narrowed it down to these two). Both seem like sound options for our garden. I *think* I favour the plastic base filled with fine...

Hi My parents are trying to decide between a 34kw boiler and a 29kw boiler, same brand (Worcester Bosch). Apart from any purchase cost difference, are there any downsides of the more powerful one? Would it *always* cost more to run? After a little research, i feel a 29kw would be ok for...

Hello I have 6 LED lights in our living room, with a total wattage greater than that of the minimum required as stated on the dimmer. They’ve been working fine for 6 months or so, but over the past few weeks, when dimmed, they momentarily dim themselves at seemingly random times. So I tend...