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I was away and my wife called in a plumber as the water would rise to the top of the bowl then drain slowly away. I've no idea what the plumber did - perhaps poked around with a wire or used a plunger - nobody was watching him. In the end he said the toilet was worn out??? It is a...

Hi, I want to fit an undersink water filter with tap but am getting confused as to which is a good make and what really needs to be filtered as there seem to be too many options! I used to have a springflow but have just moved to a house that still has lead pipes and from what I can see...

Hi any advice on this would be appreciated please, I have a Franke stainless steel sink with 2 holes feeding one mixer. I want to add a filtered water tap. There isn't much flat space to fit a new drinking water tap without invading drainer space but if its not difficult to put a new hole in...

I've moved into a house with solid walls, there are a lot of radiators on the external walls - has anyone used sempatherm radiator panels - what difference have you seen with them? Cheers

I've moved into a house and found the following setup - probably all around 25 years old or more.... * Ideal E type CF Boiler floor standing, with integral Myson unit 2 pump * SOPAC thermostat * Landis and Gyr programmer, don't know which model see picture * Approx 90cm Hot water...

I'm on my 4th sky decoder box from Sky and my viewing is still intermittent with the box eventually hanging or saying 'no satellite signal'. On the last visit the engineer changed the LNB and when I tested the new LNB with the box he put in I was pressing the channel up button to check the...

I have a Hotpoint Fridge Freezer Mistral 8596S which is almost 8 years old. It originally went wrong when the fridge stopped cooling even though the freezer was fine. I called an engineer (ex Hotpoint) and he said the fan wasn't running so changed sensors and ran a self test which appeared...

My house is a 1984 build with breeze block inner walls and red brick outer walls with the cavity filled with insulation. My ensuite bathroom has just been stripped out and I can now see why I was suffering from bad condensation above the window (the room was fully tiled) resulting in lots...

I had the car - Ford Mondeo 1997 automatic - serviced last year, within days there were oil drips under the car. Garage then tightened up sump drain plug. I took the car to another garage for something else (continual smell of fumes around the car) yesterday and they phoned up saying the sump...

During the summer my 16in Wahl fan packed up - it started getting slower and slower and eventually the fan wouldn't turn. I dismantled it and tested the circuits - current was flowing upto the capacitor linked to the motor when switched on at all speeds. I took the motor out and inspected it...

The security light in front of the garage suddenly stopped working. I changed the halogen bulb - still not working. I've changed the fuse on the switch - still not working. The PIR unit is separte from the light itself. How do I troubleshoot the setup - there must be way of testing it...

Not sure what to do next on this one... We moved into this house and the alarm was already installed. However, intermittently the phone line was very noisy and has gradually got worse. Some BT engineers came out a few months ago and it appeared fixed for a while. This week the problem got...

Strange problem - not sure if has just started or if I have just noticed it. The bathrooms are really hot in this warm weather and the central heating thermostat is still set low to stop central heating from coming on. This happens even when the hot water is off on the main controller. The...

I went away for a few days and turned off the central heating and hot water on the controller. I came back and turned it on again - I didn't bother to wait to hear the boiler re-ignite. The next morning there was no hot water. Upon investigation I found the PCB fuse was blown. After a 16...