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Thanks - super helpful! Glad I asked first. Guessing I can do this through a towel rail too? What would have happened if I'd put it into the expansion vessel?

So, I appear to have a pressurised system boiler heating system - a boiler in a downstairs cupboard, a pressurised storage tank in the loft, and then what appears to be an expansion vessel and some sort of sanitary filter (a white Zilmet canister marked as a 110 Ultra-UV-HT-Pro). There is no...

When I bought my house (originally built in the 1930s), the surveyor noted that the loft had polystyrene insulation 'in places'. I've been looking at properly reinsulating the loft as at present, it looked like most of it was less that 100mm of fibreglass, with a partial chipboard floor...

I've just had an NICEIC-certified sparky disconnect an external security lamp for me. He was unable to remove the backing plate and has left the fixture like this. Is this safe? The wires go into a connecting block but they're still live.

God, you're right, I'm an idiot. The brass bit isn't the same thing as the Torx screw, is it! Need more coffee. That should make things easier.

My oven door handle snapped off with the screws still inside. I've managed to get the snapped off bits out of the handle but I'm struggling to get the remaining screws out of the oven door. The brass surround outside the screw appear to be some sort of nut that freely rotates, so when I try...

Yes, this only works if you have decking grooved on one side. Apparently the Internet hasn't heard of dual profile decking.

So I was trying to stain some old unstained decking a nice pale green shade, and tried some Ronseal Ultimate Protection decking stain in 'sage'. It was only after doing a first coat, letting it dry, and then starting to do a second one, that I realised my definition of 'pale green' differs from...

One of my small gate posts (1m tall) has snapped in half just below the soil line, with no clear sign of rot. I suspect someone has bumped it with a vehicle. I'm trying to repair it but I'm coming up a little stumped about the best approach. First, I genuinely don't know if it has a concrete...

Probably moss and excess thatch. Have a look up close - is there lots of feathery green stuff that looks a little bit like tiny Christmas trees? That'll be moss. Your best bet is to give your lawn a really thorough raking. Do yourself a favour and get yourself an electric raker - something like...

My daughter has a turf area where she keeps her wheelie bins, which obviously gets churned up in winter. She decided to get a handyman in to pave the section where she keeps them. I've just taken a look at what she's had done and it looks to me like he's simply dug the ground level and laid the...

Recently (as in last month) I painted a bathroom in quite a dark shade. Some splatter from other decorating work means I have a small patch area that needs to be touched up. However, despite using the exact same paint (as in, the same tin), the paint has dried quite a bit lighter and is very...

I've just had a new gate put in and I'd like to stain it to protect it over the winter. I also know now's not exactly a great time to do so! Is it still possible to stain a fence as long as it stays above freezing and doesn't rain? I know it'll take longer to dry but is there any other reason...

It's an alphanumeric code rather than a name, so it's definitely the exact same colour. I'm thinking there's either a problem with the machine or the satinwood paint just inherently can't match properly as it's such a dark colour which lights up on reflection. In the end I've given up and just...

I believe you can remove distemper by coating it in wallpaper paste, leaving it for half an hour, and then scraping off. Just to be extra sure, might worth running a difficult surfaces primer along the coving once you've got rid of the distemper - should help seal things up in case there's any...

How much variation should there be in colour between satinwood and matt? I'm doing a wall in matt and a skirting in satinwood. I had colour matching done with Dulux at Homebase and both tins have the exact same code - the satinwood was deemed to have a match factor of 0.005 (I think) which is...

So, I've been repainting the ensuite and despite the fact I told my wife it was a bad idea, she decided that she wanted the skirting boards painted with gloss. We are using quite a striking colour (bottle green) and it's one of those G&B colours that works better as a matt. The walls have been...

Ok, because I am an idiot and bad at measuring, I have a gap between my new end bath panel and the wall. It's a 700mm panel but apparently a 730mm bath - didn't realise that was a thing and when I originally measured, I stupidly thought 'close enough'. The supplier doesn't do 730mm panels...

Bear with me as I'm a complete idiot on this stuff. Setup: Ancient Potterton Profile 60e boiler downstairs In the loft, there's a hot water cylinder, what looks to be an expansion vessel (it's got a gauge on it, and pipework that can be used to add water), and then a small white tank that looks...

Depending on how much you'd want to spend, I'd recommending getting a decorators' centre to get them to colour match some trade paint which will give you much better coverage than consumer paint. They should be able to tint Dulux Vinyl Matt to 'Timeless' exactly as it's all the same brand and...