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I live in a row of small granite houses, the doors all open straight onto the pavement and wandering home the other day when i noticed almost all the other houses have a copper rod and wire arrangement outside the front door. Intrigued i had a look round my house and the only earthy looking...

Bosch classixx1200 express washing machine its about 7 years old. This is quite odd, but for a few months there have been the odd pop or bang from under the counter where the machine lives when its going. It was plugged into a socket under the counter and i thought it had got wet and was arcing...

Im making a shelf/box thing for my six year old to place things he's found in, pine cones etc. I want to give it an "oldie Worlde" finish I can knock it about a bit (in fact ive already taken an angle grinder to it!) but i think it would be nice if i gave it a cracked paint finish too. No i know...

I know nothing about them. But i do use wood in my "work" and it would be useful to be able to cut intricate shapes etc. Not in thick wood, under and inch thick. On investigation i see they range from £39 to hundreds, Ok so maybe power of the motor is a factor but what else is?..what should i be...

I was just attempting to change the light fitting and the white plastic ceiling rose (that unscrews) has bright green semi liquid) deposit in its wire side... what is that then!.....

Over the last four days we have had central heating fitted (thanks to Homewarm grant) replacing the condemned back boiler. Now the guys who fitted it all explained everything to me well but as is the way of things i sort of missed asking some questions, i wonder if someone can fill me in...

A fried had a big chimney fire quiet last year, fire brigade round etc all very dramatic. Afterwards the insurance payed for the chimney repair and lining (it wasn't lined before). Yesterday she had a sweep round who also happens to chimney lining who said that the whole chimney is clogged up...

Not as silly as it sounds. Our bathroom is upstairs, and one day i will need to replace the bath. The stairs are narrow and the bathroom is round to the left at the top and it looks very much like a bath wouldn't to go up them (certainly our double bed would not!) I assume the bath came in...

I live in Cornwall, which isnt a greta place to grow roses, they seem to get a lot of mold due i think to damp and clean air. Anyway, outside the kitchen there is a big climbing rose which has had leaves for a couple of months, it looked healthy and good until last week. Now its shedding leaves...

It would seem to be the heating of the future. Take water pump it round some pipes and extract the heat that its acumulated. I notice that all supermarkets now have a huge solar collector outside ie thier car parks, that got to be worth thinking about? is it really that easy or are thier huge...

there's a pipe emerging from the floor. Near the airing cupboard. short pipe with a compression fitting and a thing like one of them small coffee cups closed top but with an offset small short projection which looks to have a ball bearing in it or something (sort of reminds me of a pressure...

There i was up in the loft attempting to cap off a water pipe with a fitting that appeared to be slightly to small when it occurred to me that maybe my pipes are so old they are pre metric. Now i know the metric is just imperial in millimeters, but thats not an exact equivalent. Maybe my pipes...

Ok so i hacksawed out the old lethal backboiler, lagged the inside of the cavity with concrete mix... and i might be aquireing a squirrel stove.... possibly with a backboiler. Now you can tell what i'm thinking. All the rads etc are there, pump is there. piping is there..... what does someone...

But then im not a fan of Margert.... dont start a political bun fight please. http://jguk.org/bbc_news_politics.html

I know yawn.. saga ah... Just had the Homewarm grant gas engineer round and he said without actually looking at the thing that the backboilers dead. Which is fine. they are going to put a combi thing up in the airing cupbord apparently venting thro the roof, due to the wall betwixt kitchen and...

It seems we might get a grant to convert back boiler (not functioning and red tagged) with a combo boiler. Now the grant inspecter said by tthe look of the rads they would go too and all the pipes!.. just how destructive will this all be? im sort of thinking floor boards up walls with grooves...

Seems every day someone offers a "free safety check"... wiring, water , gas etc... personally i regard them as little more than an opportunity for "them" to get their foot in the door condem everything and flog you something. cynical moi?... is it just a way of frightening people into...

Anyone had any experience with them?... it sounds dodgy to me... any views? theres some here... http://www.focalpointfires.plc.uk/censtove/

Are solid fuel central heating systems pumped? Are they basicaly systems like my old back boiler but with a coal fire heating the water? (ie non closed systems)... and last an not least, whats the diferance between a solid fuel flue and a gas one (tho this one used to have a coal fire its back...

Ok so the other day i slammed the front door and the drip strip fell off, rotten as a pear. So is the lower quater of the door and some of the frame. I cant aford a new door, but i was down the dump today and they have an ok solid mahogany front door for £10. Now this house was built in 1800...