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Hello, I've had this Honeywell CM927 thermostat for a few years from new. The temperature up button has gradually become less and less responsive over the years. I now have to press it really hard and at a very specific angle to turn the temperature up. All other buttons are fine. I've taken...

Hello experts, I seek advice please... I recently noticed a slightly darker spot on my living room ceiling and thought it might have been a leak from the roof so I touched it a few times with my fingers thinking it would be damp to the touch. Turns out it's not a roof leak it's just an old...

It is once again a time where I must call upon the experts at DIYnot :) So the 2 taps on my bathroom sink are rotten and need replacing, I know this... But I've recently just popped out the plastic inserts (called flow straighteners?) as they were disgusting and impossible to clean thoroughly...

Hi all, I have a short external plastic pipe that comes out of my combi boiler. See photo here... https://i.ibb.co/b2MJG40/IMG-5186.jpg When I first moved in about 2 years ago I put a cheap length of pipe insulation on the pipe. It cost me less than a quid from Toolstation as the pipe is under...

Hello fellow DIYers! I absolutely hate painting, it's the worst job for me. And I've gone and painted my living room and it's not gone great :-( As you can see in the photos, the wall looks fine looking straight on, but looking at an angle in certain lights you can see loads of patches, I...

Hello painting people, B&M Stores are confusing me, see this link they are selling 10ltrs of vinyl matt paint for £12. I can't find anything as cheap as this. But, the description says vinyl but the photo doesn't...

Hello everyone. I've bought some cheap second hand carpet tiles to glue onto my bare concrete floor in my utility cupboard downstairs. I've used this No Nonsense spray contact adhesive before to carpet a wooden shelf where my boiler tank used to sit. But the can is nearly empty already just...

Hello everyone, My girlfriend has recently purchased a new home and her hot water taps are so burning hot you can't put your hands under them at all. Can someone please help us reduce this temperature? It's a gas boiler with a water tank, and it doesn't look too old to me. With 100 degrees...

Hi all, I have this big cupboard/porch type thing downstairs which houses my gas and electric meters and my pushbike (photos below). It's a single skinned wall so gets very cold inside. Anyway when I first moved into my home this cupboard had sunk slightly in the ground and cracked all the...

Hello everyone, I have this Newworld gas cooker which is about 2.5 years old. One of the hobs doesn't spark anymore. I suspected I broke it myself by cooking pasta and water spilling and/or me cleaning the cooker with too wet a sponge. I've tried a hairdryer on it the dead sparker thing...

Hi all, I live in a one bedroom maisonette, and all the walls are what I refer to as "drywalls", I'm not sure if that's the right term. But they are like 2 boards of plaster with a gap in between them, and the plaster is covered by some sort of paper. Anyway, my big utility cupboard the old...

I've just started pulling off the silicone sealant around my bath cos it's come loose in places and mould etc. Turns out the 4 thin strips of tile that sit horizontally behind the taps were actually held in place by the silicone! So they have now come off in my hand. The original plain white...

Hi all, another extremely minor and probably laughable electrics question from me... This plug socket has always been loose since I bought my place 2 years ago, it basically hung out of the wall by about 1cm on one side if you put a plug in there and pulled it back out. The wall is a dry wall...

Hi all, my pull cord bathroom light switch has broken. On taking it apart I can see a small spring has snapped so the mechanism bit isn't springing back into place. Anyway I've bodged it for now using a random spring from my spares tub but it isn't going to hold. I can see replacement switches...

Hi all I'm looking to order a replacement lower panel for my white upvc front door. But apparently there's loads of different types of white? Are any of these numbers stamped into the door frame the colour code? There are more numbers stamped around but this is the only photo I've taken so...

Hi all, This is my first home, bought it last year. But this front door is a right state. I've attached a load of photos, and here's a list of issues... Number looks rubbish - Easy I can sort this one cheap, just going to buy some brass looking numbers and stick them on - To the left or...

Hi all, This issue^ only occurs when water gets splashed or when I'm cleaning around the taps. Water gets down the gap, drips down the pipes, and onto the concrete floor under the bath. I literally mean just a few drips, but I still want to fix this before I put the side panel back on (had it...

Hi all, I've finally got round to looking at the drip on my shower. It didn't drip loads, there was always just 1 drip hanging from 1 of the main fixing bolts and was turning it green. I've taken it all apart thinking just some PTFE tape would sort it (will do this aswell anyway), but...

Been doing some general dusting and cleaning today. In the room where my boiler is, there's a plastic screw on vent on the wall, noticed a load of dirty old dust stuck on the plastic. Unscrewed the vent to clean and found this loose circular brick that I can't remove because there's a ledge...

Hiya, my friend decided to pull off his door seal to clean it as it was mouldy and just generally really dirty. Now we can't get it back on! The front panel of the washing machine can't be removed, it's one complete unit with the sides. I managed to get the inner part around the drum...