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I'd appreciate some advice or pointing in the right direction. The old wooden back door of my garage is rotting away. The aperture in the brickwork that the door and frame fits into is 36 inches wide by 79 inches tall (915mm x 2007mm). I cannot find a door and frame set off the shelf to fit in...

The supplier said not to use anything solvent based and suggested silicone sealant. I stuck it with that and all was well - until the kitchen got very humid boiling up some veg. At which point the acrylic started to come away from the wall. So I've removed it and I'm back to square one. Has...

I painted the house last summer. Over the winter the paint has blistered in places, but only upstairs and only on the outer walls (or within a few cm of the outer walls) and only up near the ceiling. In those places where the paint has fallen off after blistering, the old paint which I had...

As you can see I have a 22mm gas pipe sticking out of the ground. Such is its height, and distance from the wall that I either need to cut a hole in the new kitchen cupboard to accommodate it, or get the pipe shortened. I imagine it could be done but would need a specialist to rethread it...

My hob is connected by what appears to be an ordinary 1/2 inch BSP to 1/2 inch BSP flexi-pipe. Is this allowable? Maybe it's a 'special' kind of pipe, but I can't find anything like it online with a search for 'gas flexi pipe'. The installation passed gas safety checks for several years but I...

Idea Boiler CH Flow Pack In order to fit a magnaclean I had to be able to pull the pipe far enough away from the wall to get the cutter on it. Doing so meant removing the pressure gauge block from the bottom of the boiler. The washer came out in bits. I'm amazed that it sealed. I can't seem...

My tenants didn't bother to tell me the toilet was leaking until the kitchen ceiling fell down!!! :-(. Anyway the drain seems like a pretty poor design with a rigid pipe from the toilet overflow to the waste pipe, which would appear to have been impossible to fit without breaking, let alone to...

The old pipes were under the floorboards, wrapped in a kind of 'wool felt' and loosely/partially buried in a fairly crumbly brittle 'concrete' (for want of a better word), which chiselled away easily with an SDS drill. Now I've laid the new pipes I need to replace the concrete. Any idea what it...

My wife's tenant has a recurring problem with the ceiling mounted shower isolator switch burning out. This must be number 4 in the last year and as I'm cutting off the burnt ends of the cable each time that I replace the switch there isn't much spare cable left for me to cut off! For clarity...

I'm going to replace all of the old rads in my house. I'm using B&Qs BTU calculator here: https://www.diy.com/help-advice/btu-radiator-calculator/Dev_npcart_100006.art As an example result it says my hall, measuring 4.93m long x 1.91m wide x 2.27m high has a BTU requirement of 1731. I can...

This seems to be a design feature (our next door neighbour's identical setup does the same thing) but can it be designed out? It's really irritating to have to go around all the upstairs rads and lock them off at the start of summer, then open them all up again at the start of winter. The...

Hi All, I've seen similar problems answered on here, but not quite the same thing. Hopefully someone knows the solution! I've removed 2 radiators to decorate the lounge and now have no heating or hot water. Both radiators had lockshields at either end, so I locked them down and removed the...

I wonder if anyone can give an opinion on this?: Last summer we had a really hot spell then some rain and one of the glass roof panels in our dining room fell in. We called a guy out to fix it and he said he'd been aware a bunch of similar issues recently and explained that the heat was causing...

I've just moved into a new house and the meter cupboard is a real mess. There is a new(ish) digital meter and fusebox, but also an old mechanical meter that ticks like mad, is some distance away from the new meter and doesn't appear to do anything. It is powered by (what I presume are) a live...

Not long moved into a new house. It has an old gravity fed water system. There are 2 showers upstairs, both running from a pump in the airing cupboard. One works perfectly and the other will not hold its temperature for love nor money. I assumed (wrongly it seems) that because one was fine that...