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Hi I remember reading before that one radiator in the system , probably the towel rad should be left fully open. I have a combi boiler and normal rads througout the house with TRVs. The towel rad is just boiling hot all the time, and often we need the window open a bit to ventilate the...

Hi I just had a plumber fit two new radiators to my system (Worcester combiner's boiler in a victorian terraced house in Bristol, uk). He drained the system and did the work I emailed after to ask if he put inhibitor in and he said he had run out but could come back to put it in, but it will...

Hi, I have 3 downlight in my bathroom with the pull switch on the ceiling by the door, and then above the window on the opposite side of the room I have my extractor fan. Because I have also installed a dimmer switch outside the bathroom the fan has not worked because there is no permanent live...

Hi I've made a desk, coffee table and shelves out of new kiln dried scaffold boards. I planed them down and sanded from 80 to 320, so they are extremely smooth. I do not like the very light and yellow look of pine, and wanted to darken them to something more like oak. I so far have tried Liberon...

Hi, I need to paint this door, but have no idea if its already painted with Oil or water based paint. Is there an easy way to tell? If its oil based can I just paint more oil based paint straight on? And if I wanted to paint water based paint on, would I have to sand it down a lot? Or just...

Hi, I hope this is the right forum, I have been asked to help a friend prep and paint their house. many patches seem to have these rough bumpy patches. She did say that area was quite damp. I looked online and wondered if it is efflorescence (which I only just learnt about) What is my best...

Hi, I replaced an old double light switch, one switch does my porch light, the other should do my lounge lights. It was an old switch with L1 L2 and L3. I followed these instructions when changing it : L1 . . . . COM L2 . . . . L1 L3 . . . . L2 And it doesn't work. I have posted a photo, any...

Hi, I noticed under my bay window outside it sounded hollow. Then I chopped off what you can see in the photo. But it doesn't seem like proper render, more like filler or something. It's white and a little bit soft/chalky. It seems to be only under the bay window, the rest of the house is...

Hi, I'm making some built in storage into the eves of my loft room. I've made grooves for 10mm MDF to go in top and bottom for the doors. I've just tried the MDF in the grooves and it's not nearly as smooth as I hoped. I wonder if ply would work better as it's lighter. Or maybe it's because I...

Hi, I've been renovating my house, and removed the front cover of this vent in my living room, I don't even remember what the front looked like. The vent appears to just be a short pipe but has some channel on the inside so air doesn't just flow straight through the pipe. I have taken this...

I have a painted bath panel, which sits under the rim of my bath and is flush with the edge of the bath, as the instructions said. I just took it off to check the plumbing, and found water was creeping around the bath rim and sitting on top of the bath panel, and leaving a bit of a mess. Also...

Hi I am with virgin but have a BT line as I used to be with them. It's quite unsightly the way it comes in by the front door and along the hall and into the kitchen. The kitchen is also an awful place for the router as it doesnt reach the whole house. Ideally it would come in the bedroom like...

Hi I have just installed my IKEA kitchen with oak veneered worktops. They come pre oiled, but I only just read you are meant to oil them more once installed. I put in my sink with a bead of silicon around the endge and then tightened the sink clips to squash it, and then cut the silicon back...

Hi I need to replace all my internal doors. I was looking at Deanta shaker style fd30 doors. They all come in the same height of 1981mm and a choice of 4 widths. They say 15mm can be taken off each edge. The issue is a few of my doors are between 1901mm and 1920mm meaning I cannot take off...

Hi I have a room in the roof loft conversion in a mid terraced house in Bristol. It's all been done to regs about 20 years ago. I am renovating now, and need to change all the internal doors. I have read that if I do this then I may need fire doors as the rules have changed. I'm a bit confused...

Hi I'm about to paint all the woodwork in my lounge. All the skirting appears to be fixed about two thirds of the way up each board, but I can push the bottom in about 10mm And then this of course means the top comes apart and cracks the paint/caulk. And it just feels bad! Is there a way to...

Hi, I have a Victorian terraced house with floorboards in the bedrooms. They aren't perfect by any means, wonky and random gaps but look nice to me. I'm refurbishing the house. Could anyone give advice on how I might make them look a little fresher or nicer? Obviously I can just give them a...

Hi I've ended up scraping back some loose flakey paintwork in my kitchen and lounge. I'm wondering if I should just sand the edges and paint it, or should I be looking to plaster these patches? The walls aren't exactly perfect everywhere anyway I have some multifinish, can I just skin a bit...

Hi My kitchen has 12 downlights, with a triple switch at the entrance, which turns different sections of the room, one of them only turns on and off two of the downlights which seems silly. There is also another switch by the garden door which turns on and off 5 downlights, the same as one of...

Hi I fell out with the guy who was meant to fit my karndean floor in my kitchen. He said my floor couldn't be made flatter, and it had 8cm undulations. I levelled it with fibre self levelling compound from mapei, and now it's much better. I have karndean opus planks. They reccomend using...