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Hi Just removed most of the tiles around the bath, which was a much bigger job than expected! Those suckers werent moving! Anyway, the walls are wood of some kind and seem pretty decent. The only problem is, there are patches of grout/cement/adhesive type thing on the wall that is...

Hi I have a bath with a fixed shower head which is controlled with a thermostatic shower valve, and at the other end of the bath I have normal hot and cold taps. The water that comes out of the hot water tap is steaming and hot. The water that comes out of the fixed shower head is luke warm...

Hi Please help! I have a bannister thats working its way towards freedom. The part where the handrail meets the wall has become wobbly. There isn't that much give, but enough that the plaster on the wall has cracked and wants to fall away. There isn't a newel post where the handrail meets...

Hi Please help! Apologies if this is the wrong section for this question. I have a bannister thats working its way towards freedom. The part where the handrail meets the wall has become wobbly. There isn't that much give, but enough that the plaster on the wall has cracked and wants to...

Hi I have a Halstead Finest combi boiler which seems to be working fine. The radiators all get hot, and the water is all steaming hot too apart from at one end of the bath. Its a bit of an odd set up but there's a bath/shower mixer at one end of the bath and there's loads of boiling hot...

Hi Guys Am after some advice. I live in a 2nd floor flat and the lady below me has said the sewage is blocked (there are just 2 flats to the property). I think she said that when she flushes the toilet, the waste does flush properly but I can't be certain cos her English isn't very good...

Its me again (for those of you that remember me). I didn't think i'd need your help again so soon but I do :( well, the boiler has locked out again. It happened last night and once again I rung British Gas and was told an engineer wouldn't be round until Friday :evil: Stupid me but I...

Hey guys Just wanted some advice. Moved into my flat a couple of months ago and this guy came round to quote me on some work for my windows. He went into the bathroom and noticed the extractor fan on the wall above the shower and said that basically it didn't meet new regulations. He said...

Hi, Wanted to try something a little different and paint my bedroom a base colour (white) and then paint large blocks of colour on top. The room was originally an electric blue colour which was going to be one block. So, I masked off a block and proceeded to paint the rest of the room white...

Hi, Have a Halstead Finest combi boiler and the safety lockout randomly trips. Very annoying as you can imagine. Doesn\\\'t seem to be any pattern to it tripping out, and sometime will need to be reset over ten times in a row before it\\\'ll work again. Know nothing about boilers or DIY...