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My elderly mother has had a strip drain fitted at the top of her drive to catch overspill from the road and prevent it running down the drive. The drain man has used tinted resin instead of blocks adjacent to the drain as can be seen in the photo below. Any reason why they couldn’t have just...

I'm trying to work out the power consumption of an electric towel rail and would appreciate some input to see if i've got this right. The towel rail is a water filled rail on the central heating circuit, only used when the central heating is off. It is fitted with a 250w heating element and a...

Quite a few of the Senegal fans have white face makeup. How is that not considered racist?

I’m in the process of fitting new, deeper windowsills in a bay so that shutters can be fitted on top. The old sills had been bedded on a very deep bed of silicone, approx 15mm deep. I need the replacement sill to be at the same height as the old sills as the shutters have been made to fit the...

We've had a problem with subsidence in the floors of our offices. Trees have sucked the water out of the clay under the floor and over 15 years or so in one office the floor has dropped by around 60mm one end compared to the other. We've have an insurance contractor in who wants to use self...

Lots of stuff in the media at the moment about boiler temperatures and whether they are set correctly at commissioning. For a worcester bosch greenstar system boiler, what should the flow and return temperatures be to optimise efficiency?

I’m in the process of replacing the flexi hoses that sit behind a tower shower unit and am struggling to find a flexi hose that is as flexible as the originals which have split. They‘re 1/2“ tap connections at either end and the originals are 400mm long. I can only find 300 or 500mm long hoses...

I need 2 off 9 inch by 3 inch blue airbricks to go under a set of french doors we've had fitted to improve the subfloor ventilation. I cannot find them anywhere. I can find red or buff, but not blue. Any suggestions?

Just had an apologetic phone call from our gardener to say she's cut out broadband cable where it runs behind some bushes at the front of our house. Am i correct in thinking its just coax that i can repair with F type connectors or is it more complicated than that? If it is a simple F type...

I noticed a few weeks ago that the transparent flow meters for my underfloor heating have started turning black from what i presume is bacterial growth in the underfloor heating pipework. I suspect this may be due to me draining the above floor radiators a few times when i've moved radiators...

The previous owners of our house put block paving in on the original drive and created a new section of drive that previously had been garden. Matching the levels with the drive meant that whoever put the block paving in just blocked across the airbricks, partially blocking them in some places...

We have a 1920's house with a floor that is having to be replaced due to historic rot. It's a suspended floor, and the underfloor ventilation had been blocked by plant growth and a conservatory. The conservatory has been removed and the ventilation problems resolved, but some of the joists and...

We had an extension to our kitchen a few years ago with an new bedroom above. We always planned to fit additional lights in the kitchen, so had the electrician leave a spare circuit with a cable dangling from the ceiling. Eventually, my wife decided on the lights she wanted. Typically, the...

When sorting out the mess my aged mother made a week or so ago by leaving the shower running for 2 days with the shower door partially open (she's deaf and couldn't hear the water running), i noticed a very slight weep from behind the immersion heater flange on her Range Tribune HE pressurised...

My mother had a new Ideal Logic Max Heat 30 installed just before Christmas. The install looks good but the boiler flue drips when it’s cold outside. Unfortunately, the wall below the flue sticks out by a couple on inches and has a sandstone angled section that the condensate is dripping on...

I’ve made some shakers style cupboard doors out of 18mm mdf with the 6mm centre panels let into the 18mm frame. One door is for an integrated freezer. The top bracket screws to the 18mm frame, but the door I’ve made is quite a bit longer than standard so the bottom door brackets that attach the...

Somehow I managed to catch the cable with my circular saw when I finished a cut before the guard snapped back. I’ve exposed the copper on two cores, so it’s more than just an insulating tape repair. Is there a proper way of repairing the cable without replacing the whole thing?

My 75 year old mother had a heating engineer out to service her 15 year old boiler last week. Whilst there, the engineer told her that her existing boiler was getting old and she should consider a new one. he’s subsequently quoted approx £3k to replace her existing boiler, power flush, fit an...

Why can't i find the above on screwfix etc. My understanding was that i can't just connect a flexi hose with a 1/2" female nut with rubber seal straight onto a compression fitting because the sharp end of the compression fitting will cut through the rubber seal. In which case i'd have...

My wife has just chosen a brushed brass trap which has a 35mm brass pipe as it’s outlet. I need to convert that to 32mm plastic. I can find a mcalpine converter, but the 35mm push fit side is chrome plated plastic when I just want normal plastic (it’ll be painted to make the plastic pipe work...