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I moved house a year ago and the cooker socket has never worked properly since then. The fuse in the consumer unit blows any time the oven is used or the kettle is boiled (using that socket). It doesn't blow instantly - maybe after a minute or so (sometimes more, sometimes less). I thought...

I bought a house last August that currently has standard gas central heating radiators. However, the house used to have old-style hot air heating (it's a Wimpey No-Fines Concrete house from the 70s). All of the vents in the rooms have been removed and plastered over. However, in the cupboard...

New house, lots of DIY. I've always been fairly handy. But I seem to have developed a slightly manic "have-a-go-hero" mentality towards any jobs that come up nowadays. I've even turned my hand to bits and bobs of plumbing (replaced the waste unit on kitchen sink, repaired the mixer shower tap...

I am in the process of buying a flat-roof bungalow. It has been lying empty for 8 months so smelled quite "musty" when I viewed it last week. As per the rules in Scotland, the Home Report survey had to be refreshed to make sure there were no changes since the report was last prepared (which...