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Added a new radiator to the system but its not heating up. Have bled the radiator, all fine. Pipes are hooked up to the correct flow. No leaks in valves, pipes or radiator. Pressure is fine on the boiler. Hot water & hot rads everywhere else. Valves are fully turned to on position (duh!) Taken...

Accidentally pulled a cable out of my Hive central heating hub. As can be seen bottom right. Does it just go back in with the existing wires, or do they go into separate connectors?

Fitted a Velux window over the weekend and there are a couple of cables running directly underneath. Cant be moved out of the way, so need to extend them. I'm fine with extending the electric cable (using a 30A junction box), but what about the earth cable - assume this cant be extended...

Had my ceiling plastered, not changed any wiring. Just fitted new light switch and light unit and light wont switch off. I've tried a separate switch and a separate light unit but still no joy. Some pics below, what am I missing? henry vaughan quotes

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I have a plumbing vent pipe going up and through the roof in the loft. I've noticed its been leaking through the roof and dripping down into the loft. I'm assuming it has/had a rubber boot type thing on the outside that prevented this and has stopped working. https://imgur.com/72JHCYg From...

Just decommissioned my old Honeywell system with a R6660D receiver that was connected up to the boiler (working perfectly). Wired it my new Hive receiver, hooked it all up to the thermostat and hub but it's not firing up the central heating on the boiler. The green light is coming on on the...

Need to replace a number of "blown" double glazed sealed units. Have managed to remove 3 in the conservatory with no problem by using a putty knife to remove the beadings. One in the kitchen appears a slightly different design and I cant remove the beading - obviously dont want to damage the...

Initially thought it would need a male bullet but I bought the smallest one available (red 4mm) and it was way too big for the hole at the top. Maybe it needs a female connector? Each one is about 6mm wide. It's on an indicator stalk of an old VW camper

Initially thought it would need a male bullet but I bought the smallest one available (red 4mm) and it was way too big for the hole at the top. Maybe it needs a female connector? Each one is about 6mm wide.

Having a bit of a nightmare with my house alarm. Its an Aritech CS45003 alarm with a CD34 keypad unit. I recently had a "Low Battery" warning on the keypad unit so I took the cover off the alarm unit and changed the battery for a new one. As soon as I connect up the new battery and...

Just put a floorboard nail through a hot central heating water pipe. No big drama, just drained the system and no damage so all fine. In terms of fixing it, I assume its OK to cut the pipe either side of the nail hole and use a compression coupler to join the pipe back together?

I have a power supply already running from the house to an outdoor socket that I use for lawnmower power. Im in the process of building a log cabin in the garden and I'll want electricity in the cabin when its completed. Is it straight forward to extend the power supply from the outdoor...

Changing some light fittings at my folks new house today and came across this set up on a very very old light fitting. It has 4 cores going into the old fitting, so obviously part of a loop. I want to fit them to a single Live/Earth/Neutral fitting. Can anybody help?

Wanted to gauge opinions. I'm looking to erect a circa 5x4 metre log cabin in my garden. Its a 44mm interlocking cabin so it carries substantial weight. There is also a slight slope on the base area (approx 1ft from top to bottom) to slightly complicate matters. One option is raised...

I’m building some raised decking on my garden to host a summer house. My garden has a slope so the decking does need to be raised. The summer house is quite large (5m x 4.5m) and will be heavy so I want to ensure I build a suitably heavy duty base. For the decking “stilts”, I’ll use 4”x4”...

So I had this portable iPod speaker for about 90 minutes before one of the kids pushed in the delicate plastic bits in the middle of both cones with their finger, as pic below. Is there any way of getting it back to normal?

Anyone know what type of underlay this is? Appears to be a type of loose fabric as opposed to rubber or felt.

Have a problem with the blue coil on my garage door roller, the cable has snapped so I need to replace it. Does anybody know if it is even possible to replace these and where I could get a replacement from? Also, I cant see how to remove it, there is what looks like a cotter pin (circled in...

I have a basin in my ensuite bathroom and the cold water tap has no pressure at all, fully turned on the tap is only producing a small trickle of water. There's no problem with any of the other cold taps in the house or with the hot water tap in the en suite. What could be causing this?