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Hi. I have been replacing the white sockets in the front room with antique brass. All went ok until the last one. Got the white front off and there were 4 cables in the back, so it looks a bit of a tight fit. Anyhow got it all to fit and when screwing the new socket on, it appears one side has...

I am changing my white plastic light switches to antique brass. I took one off, ensuring everything was labelled. On the old switch both com terminals were at the top, L1 and L2 bottom. On this new one (BG). One of the switches has com at top the other com at bottom. I wired as the old, live to...

We have had a bad sewer snell in the kitchen and bathroom for a couple of months now. It tends to come and go. Just some history first ... Around 17yrs ago a mate did some bathroom work, but couldn't finish it, so I got a local plumber in. He thought it would be a good idea to lop off the...

My house has the living room ceiling, part of the front room staircase and porce artexed. I want to get rid of this, but wondered if it needs to be removed, or can it just be skimmed over. The porch artex is already peeling off. If it needs to be removed, am I resigned to scraping it off or is...

I have a Hoover Breeze Evo, and need the Small internal hose that connects the brush bar to the Main hose. I cannot seem to find anywhere that supplies this. Mine has a small hole in it, so suction is reduced. Suction is fine when just using the main hose. Model Number TH31 BO02001 Thanks

One of the rads on my system, cools down much quicker than the other ones. When heating on and raising the temp, it's red hot, but once boiler starts to cycle, keeping temperature constant, this rad cools down, the others stay quite hot. The rad in question is the first on the loop. They all...

Just very recently we have been getting like an earthy smell in the bathroom, my wife also says its like an old brussel sprout smell. Thinking back, we have been getting this for a few months, a couple of months back my wife forgot to mention a smell like wet floorboards, that then went away...

I have a hotpoint SA2544CIX. Recently it's taking ages to heat up, over 25mins to get to 180degrees. The fan is working ok, and the top element is heating, as on grill it's gets very red. Any ideas how to check bottom element or any ideas what else it could be.... Don't want to pay £70 for a...

I have some older sliding patio doors. Recently although when shut, pulling up the handle engages the mechanism, when I try to turn the key to lock the door, the key turns halfway then refuses to turn any further, no matter how hard I try. I removed the euro lock, and noticed that the tab that...

My patio door refuses to lock. All hooks engage but the key goes round so far and then no more, no matter how hard I try. It's a sliding door. I have removed the lock and the black thing in the middle turns ok, but the bit that sticks out looks quite worn. As a new lock is an easy fix, does...

I have a Beko DWD5411W unit. Just recently the its not been washing at all well, and the top basket washing is just poor. I ran the unit with nothing in, and quickly opened the door, and noted the top arm did not appear to be spinning. I disconnected it, and cleaned it out, but it wasnt dirty...

Have an ideal logic 24 boiler, installed in 2011. over the past week its been losing pressure on a daily basis, upwards of a bar in pressure. there are no obvious leaks on the system, all rads bled and heat up fine and dhw works well. I would assume there would be an obvious leak losing that...

I have a DWD5411W. It's worked fine for a few year's but recently it's been poor at washing intermittently, with dishes not washed well, other times fine. It's now started to keep filling with water. After a wash it drains fine. We come back to it after a few hours and there is water in the...

My dishwasher has developed an odd fault. Most washes it refuses to wash anything properly in the back of the lower basket on the right. Everything else washes fine. Testing shows the lower arm is spinning ok and if I am quick enough I can open the door and see water coming out of all the holes...

Hi. Been redecorating my daughters room. Behind her bed, was an old unused double socket. When I looked at it, as it will be more exposed in her new layout, one side seemed quite loose. I removed the screws and pulled the socket out, and tried refitting, but no matter what I have tried...

We have a Condensing boiler, fitted approx. 3yrs ago. Over the past couple of weeks it appears to be losing pressure slowly, around .3-.5bar over a 2 week period, which was noticed 2 weeks ago as the boiler failed to light for hot water. I refilled the boiler to 1.5bar, and bled all the rads, a...