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    Electric Cooker replacement considerations

    Old cooker tripped up the RCD yesterday evening while using the oven and since turning it back on it looks like the oven function has stopped working entirely - as in, light still comes on, fan turns on, but no heat. I imagine the heating element has gone bust. The hob function is still fine...
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    Fascia board replacement

    Hi, wanting to get some advice on what to do here (you'll be able to tell I'm not the most experienced!). Need to replace a fascia board and possibly put in new guttering too, find pictures attached. The original work is rotting away, the worst section being to the left of the first picture...
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    Outside tap leaking! Winter hits back!

    Hi, This summer we had our garden tap leaking, so I followed good old Youtube to had it replaced, end result: Job seemed good, all summer = no leaks. Fast forward to today and I noticed a considerable leak exactly where the tap connects to the pipe (in red arrow): Now, it has been...
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    Shower alternates between hot and cold... Boiler is fine.

    Earlier in the summer started noticing sporadic hot/cold intermittent supply. Hot supply for a couple of minutes and then endless hot/cold alternates, the cold cycle seems to last around 10 seconds, with the hot cycle a bit more. This is not an everyday occurrence, although it seems to happen...
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    Messy subfloor...

    Some context: 1930s house, groundfloor is all concrete with a thick layer of bitumen on top, most of the house is floorboards that were laid on top of the bitumen (probably once it was still hot...) and nailed down with flooring brads. Yes, apparently that was a thing back in the 1930s... whole...
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    Old floorboards - what is underneath?

    Ripped out fairly old carpet from the living room and dining room of our 1930s house to find the floorboards in a much worse state than the upstairs rooms. The boards look mostly fine in the centre of the rooms, but the edges appear to have been painted in the past, I believe this used to be...
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    Removing old Telewest cable

    (Part of another conversation) I have an old Telewest socket (phone line I believe?) that I would like to remove prior to redecoration. Some assumptions: * We have no use for this whatsoever, and never will. * Socket was already in the house prior to us moving in, never been used. * We are...
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    Removing old telewest/bt sockets

    Wanting to move my front door and replaster the whole area, there are these 2 old sockets for both telewest and bt that I would preferably like to remove. These have been here since we bought the house and I can't remember if anything was ever connected to them. I seem recall us pulling old...
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    Light coming through roof after work being, is this normal?

    Context: Have had a chimney stack removed by a professional roofer (found through checkatrade with 200+ near perfect reviews). Work was carried over 2 days. Once finished, I went in the loft and noticed some light coming through a couple of the tiles in the area that was affected. Proceed to...
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    How to insulate behind sloping ceiling?

    All rooms upstairs have a sloping ceiling and these sections of the loft are lacking in insulation. Not much of an issue anywhere besides the bathroom, where the shower head is sitting directly below the sloping ceiling! Even though we always leave the window open during and after showering...
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    What sort of material is this and how do I go about redecorating?

    Most rooms in my house have this sort of paint/textured product covering the ceilings (attached in pictures). My bathroom has this as well, it's a small bathroom that is south facing with a window that I open for a few hours after showering, yet, the section above the shower has started to...
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    Paint flaking off and stains starting to appear...

    Renovated a couple of rooms by having them stripped of old wallpaper and replastering/skimming (the plasterer fully replastered some areas, other areas just needed skimming), recently painted with a mist coat of emulsion followed by another coat. On one of the rooms it didn't take long for some...
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