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This is leaking at the handle so I think the ceramic cartridge needs replacing. How do I get to it?

In the course of trying to get rid of some mould marks I managed to strip parts of the window frame of paint, as per the picture. I’d like to repaint the whole frame. What’s a good solution here? Eggshell white with primer underneath?

We have some built-in wardrobes that look like they’re from the 70s or 80s and we want to freshen them up by painting them in a white eggshell. However I’ve never used eggshell before and I recently had a nightmare trying to use quick drying gloss on some woodwork elsewhere. Is quick drying...

I have two Liebherr fridges (T1710) and one of them is no longer cooling. The inside of the fridge is basically room temperature, although the light does come on. The coils at the back don’t have much dust on them, but I cleaned them anyway, and that didn’t work. I have two of the same model in...

The lighter area is where the sun comes in from a window to the right. It’s had about seven or eight coats now, and I still can’t get a uniform finish. Is there anything I can do with Danish Oil to achieve that? At the minute, I’m just applying the oil, letting it soak and buffing it.

I’m repainting the woodwork on my house. Some of the sills are fine. Some are starting to flake and one will need repairing with filler. Am I okay to paint over these after removing the flaky paint or do I need to go back to bare wood and put primer on? The paint I’ve got is Sandtex exterior...

We have an old Danfoss 4033 timer that controls when our boiler turns on and off and the timer bit has just stopped turning by itself, so we’re no longer able to programme it to come on. (Although the boiler still works fine if we turn it on manually via the on/off switches of the Danfoss? Is...

I have some work I need to do to the exterior of my house that requires working up a ladder for an extended period. Are there any commercial products for securing a ladder that are worth buying? The reason why I ask is because we recently had someone from Openreach come to the house and the...

We're looking to take up the carpet in a room in our house that's going to become a nursery. We're strictly limited on the budget and will be putting down reclaimed parquet. My question is, is it feasible as long as the floorboards are in good condition and level to lay the reclaimed parquet...

So about two weeks ago, when there was that massive thunderstorm, we had water (a lot of it) dripping into our house from the upper section on the alcove of the interior of this window. Logically, I'm thinking there's a problem with degraded mortar on the exterior wall, which when there's a lot...

I've got a few jobs I need to do on my house: *Repointing mortar (including around the upper level) *Painting a metal drainpipe that goes all the way to the gutter at the roof *Resealing all window exteriors and painting sills This is obviously too much to do on a ladder (for me at least)...

I have two broken parts in my kitchen cabinets: one wide opening door hinge and one gripper thing that holds the board under the cabinets in place. Please see the pics. What are these parts called and where can I buy them (if not eBay/Amazon)? Thanks.

My shower started leaking from both where the shower hose goes into the unit, and from the bottom middle of the unit itself, when turned on. When it's off there is much less of a leak, but it still leaks a bit. The shower is a Galaxy 2000LX. Could someone help me diagnose the problem and the...

I’ve popped the covers off this handle expecting to find standard posi screws only to find what you see in the photo, and I’ve no idea how to tighten these. Does anyone know? Also how do you get the circular white cover off the handle to tighten that hit as well? I broke a blade trying to pry...

I have two things I need to fix in my garden, and I would like some advice: (1) I have areas in my garden like in the photo where last summer I put grass seed down over what used to be a flower bed. I thought I got most of the bulbs but evidently not! What's the easiest way to get rid of the...

We’ve had a few of these in storage. Opened them up and found severe corrosion. Can they be repaired economically or are they a write off? I’ve attached one image of a hood one, and one of a corroded one.

The woodwork in our house is old and faded, and parts of it have marks from mugs, etc. How would I go about restoring the wood in the images? I've tried the simplest thing so far, which is just applying a new coat of protective wax (IIRC it's a carnauba/beeswax mix), and although it improved it...

We bought this house recently and we're desperate for more kitchen storage space, so we want to put up some more cabinets, but of the same kind as is already in there. Can anyone recognise the make/model/type of cabinet from the pictures, or advise on where/who to ask about this kind of thing...

Hi everyone, I could really use some help identifying the source of a leak. It's in my kitchen at the point where the old exterior wall meets the extension roof (see photo 1). It's a small leak and only appears after heavy rain. And I can hear a slow drip somewhere above where the leak is...

We have an old back boiler that’s worked fine for the past 6 months since we moved into our house. For the past couple of days the boiler seems to constantly heat the water, even when the switch is set to ‘timed’ or ‘off’. The heating still works as normal. The only way I can get it to stop is...