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Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I will need to investigate properly but may not get a chance to do that during the working week. My other half is away at the moment, and it probably will take two of us to move stuff out of the way in the loft to find out what is going on (and also get...

This lot didn’t look too bad: it was the random lengthy coils of wire that seemed to be attached to the lighting circuits that really bothered me! Yes: they do. The only problem is that there isn’t a socket anywhere near there (which is the wall between the bathroom and the bedroom). Perhaps...

I’ve done some digging in the loft. Access is almost impossible: the corner where the socket is where the eves reach the floor of the loft space (there is a sloping ceiling in the bedroom). It is also behind the water tank. And then it is boxed in by the pipework which is all on that side. It...

Thank you everyone for these suggestions. Looks to me like the plan is to see which circuit is supplying it and then start searching more deeply. There is a lot of odd wiring in the loft so I am crossing my fingers that it is there rather than under the floor...

PS. Might I just double-check a question from my initial post? Would any of the cable finders that you can buy help with locating the junction box?

Well...It is an option. Not the most attractive one for obvious reasons! I’m also wondering where to look because starting from where the broken socket is, is the least convenient place to lift the floor (inevitably). I’ve drawn a quick sketch. I don’t suppose there is any usual practice which...

Nothing, I’m afraid. I’m not sure if I should expect to get something, even if everything was working? I thought that was about all the testing I could do from one end of the cable without finding where it is wired up...

When we moved in we borrowed one of those plug-in mains socket testers. It came up with “neutral fault”. I’ve also checked it with a multimeter which gives me mains voltage between live and ground but nothing between live and neutral. I assumed that meant a fault with the neutral but perhaps it...

That’s exactly the chap I need. Do you know his number? The crystal ball looks a bit complex for DIY ;-) It’s a bit more complex than that, unfortunately. When they did the soundproofing they brought the wall forward slightly so nothing is as it was before the words were done. I guess I need to...

Hello, We live in a late-90s townhouse. One of the bedrooms on the top floor has 3 sockets. One of them has never worked. This never bothered us before because it was behind some immovable wardrobes but we’ve now got rid of them and I would like to put it into service. This socket is a spur...

From what I can see, it is held in place primarily by the valve itself. I think it might just be a c-ring that’s keeping me from removing it but it is quite hard to investigate since, inevitably, it has been installed facing away from the cupboard door and there endless pipes in the way...

Are they generally interchangable? Screwfix only sells one: https://www.screwfix.com/p/drayton-synchronous-motor/28670 Since it doesn’t look lie the actuator will come off that is probably my only option short of replacing all the pipes (which is a bit too much into plumbing territory for my...

Thanks. That all makes sense. Especially why I couldn’t get the actuator off the valve!

Thanks everyone. A bit more fiddling makes me think the motor is gone. It was red hot when I removed the cover which is never a good sign and didn’t sound very happy when being run removed from the unit (i.e. not under load) or when I manually turned it myself. With the motor removed, the...

Thanks. There is no sound from it when turning the CH, HW or CH + HW on. When turning off, I get no sound from the CH but when it’s the HW or CH + HW there is a noise which doesn’t sound like a whirr of a synchron motor being powered for a couple of seconds. It sounds more like something flowing...

Hi all, We have an old-ish open vented system from the late 1990s. The hot water has stopped working but not the central heating. Tracing the hot pipes, I notice that after the 3-way-valve the pipe into the cylinder gets notably cooler. It is reasonably hot just past they motorised valve but...

Yes: absolutely. But the plan has been to replace it for some time for various reasons unrelated to the door. A couple of our neighbours have had the classic one-story extension put on and it really helps open up the ground floor and create useful extra space (we’re in a tall-but-narrow...

Thanks very much, everyone. I had a go at a repair last night. The middle hinge, which had pulled free from the door seemed to glue on quite well: there was a huge surface area and essentially no material loss. I used high viscosity superglue. It sees pretty solid but I guess only time will...

Yes. That makes sense. I was just surprised that when I was looking for UPVC-compatible epoxies that was all that appeared. Looks = unimportant. How long to last = I’m hopeful we will have sorted out the conservatory-replacement by next Spring. Thanks. A lot of things to think about.

Thanks. That’s helpful. My first instinct was that this was an epoxy job but I was rather put off by the fact that I couldn’t see any purpose-made ones (except for this tiny kit by ED Supplies which looked to me like something being re-packaged for small-scale DIY use...