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I was checking this 3 armed light fitting my wife bought, it appears each taped joint has 3 wires from the lamp holders and a wire to the power, the left hand one has an extra thicker wire which I don't understand, Would it be better cutting this wire and attaching to the metal to form an earth...

I got charged a small fortune to get this done last year, and I now have another one leaking and thought I would do it myself. He was only in the house 15 minutes so can't be a big job. Is it a case of isolating the valves, releasing the pressure into a bucket, changing the flowmeter, then...

For a number of weeks I've been topping up the pressure on a Grant Vortex oil boiler running John Guest underfloor heating and a couple of towel rails, I've a few questions as I'm not sure how the system works. I've rang a couple of heating engineers who have not turned up. Will the under floor...

I've replaced an inline extractor fan but the timer won't work I followed the old wiring which was permanent live =brown switched live =black neutral = grey on the new fan I've put the grey in N and tried the black in LT and brown in L and swapped them round but can only get the fan to work...

The crack has been in the cill for about 10 years, I'm not sure what to fill it with, the timber around it is fairly sound but it is quite deep. i was thinking of firing some flexible wood filler , what do you think?

I've worked in the building trade for the last 40 + years and know a little bit about plumbing not so much about under floor heating. I've discovered why the pressure in my own boiler keeps dropping, there is a leak from a manifold flow meter, I'm not sure if I've the confidence to replace it...

We have a Grant oil fuelled boiler running our under floor heating, I've noticed that 1 towel rail of 2 is losing its heat and I'm having to re-pressurise it within a few days. I have since noticed that there is a leak from the under floor heating manifold, see the image, I thought the 2...

We've had to re position a cast bath and we disturbed the waste and overflow pipe, it is still leaking from our first attempt from the area marked on the photo, I'd put a load of silicone between the joint. I went to our local building merchant hoping to get some kind of thick rubber washer but...

I have an old cast iron bath trap to disconnect, it is in a grade 1 listed building, they want to re enamel the bath within the room. The contractor doing the enamelling wants the waste removing which is badly tarnished etc so would need replacing but I am guessing it will not be something I can...