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Hi all, I want to make a wooden covering "door" to hide an inset door in my living room. The idea is that the ugly inset door (that's rarely used) will disappear as best as possible. I was thinking something extremely plain and simple like a narrow frame tacked onto the wall, then a piece of...

Hello all, I have a Bosch PCH615CGB gas hob - looks a bit like this: http://f38i.imgup.net/bosch-pbh66acd.jpg The large burner http://g54i.imgup.net/lqgtcjtwnl82f1.jpg does light but gives a pathetically small flame. The other 3 rings are fine. I have unscrewed and swapped burners from...

Hi I hope someone can advise. I have a garden with lawn interspersed with flower beds and paths. The total lawn area is probably 80-100m2. I initially bought a strimmer to try to get it back to turf, and although that worked OK the strimmer was a nightmare, the line kept breaking and not...

Hi, I have stripped paint from my stair treads and want to leave them as natural looking as possible. Am I best with varnish or some oil based natural treatment? thanks

Hi all, One of my rads (right by a bed so extra annoying) makes a sound of water squirting when heating. I have bled it regularly, and the system itself has had a recent thorough powerflush and gets nice and hot. Standard Potterton Suprima 50 (yuck) boiler system - The rads are old, and...

Hi - hope someone can give me a pointer or two. I have a conventional open vented heating system with a cylinder, pump, air separator and 3 port valve in the airing cupboard and conventional boiler in the kitchen. Suddenly the heating, which has been working, isn't. The hot water still is...

Hi, Having taken the carpet off my stairs, I am left with a bare wood "runner" up the middle and some paint on each side. My plan is to sand down and paint the risers in white and the treads in black. Any recommendations on what type or brand of paint to go for? Was just going to do a...

Hi all Am sanding down some floorboards in a 1970s house soon - am guessing they are pine as I am not actually in the house as yet. I would like them to have a natural sheen - not shiny, and a natural or oak colour. They are bedrooms so don't have to be super hardwearing although I like the...

Hi, To cut a long story short, the hot water feed to my washer was leaking so I turned the tap off. Been doing normal 40 and 50 degree washes fine since. I started a 95 degree wash over an hour ago and although it did start, it's now doing nothing and the dial is about 1/8 of the way round...

Hi, I have storage heaters (on Economy7) all through the house, and at the moment with temps around -3 to +4 degrees, they simply aren't up to the job. A couple downstairs have a manual heating element that can warm things up but obviously cost a bomb to run on daytime electricity. The ones...

Hi, Am just about to move to a place that has wiring/place for electric cooker (there's no gas). I am assuming that as there used to be a cooker there that the wiring will be suitable. What will I expect when i get a cooker delivered - will it just have 2 terminals to connect to the cable or...

Hi - I have a 2001 Peugeot 206, and the driver door is getting very difficult to shut - sounds like metal on metal as it crunches back from fully open. Any idea where to start without taking the door off - or does it come off easily? thx - Rob

Hi, Our kitchen sink was a mess from the day it was installed - the water doesn't drain properly from the draining area (installed the wrong way around I think) and now the tap won't stop leaking - it's not the washers. Anyway we are going to replace it - any recommendations for something a...

Hi, Electrics are supposed to be simple. but perhaps it's me who is simple. We have a light fitting in the kitchen with 4 halogen bulbs. It is controlled by 2 switches in parallel - one normal and one dimmer. It's been working fine - every so often a bulb goes, trips the RCD, gets...