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Hi folks. Haven't posted in here for some time but good to be back! Went through a separation a few years ago (and most of my posts pre that time were about the family home which I eventually left....but I digress!) My daughter lives in the conserfatouyr converted into a bedroom. All good...

Hi all, Had anybody any experience of changing the lower element in these ovens? The oven currently doesn't raise higher than 150 degrees. I've changed the fan element in the past (take off the housing from the front as seen in the ouc belowe then remove the casing from the back of the oven to...

Hi all, I've just studded out a frame on the wall (3x2) to hang a piece of MDF onto (with a hole cut out in the middle for a TV bracket). The 12mm MDF will overhang the frame slightly so I can hide LED strip lighting behind. The piece is mainly square (1200mm width x 1650 mm height) but the...

Hi all. Following on from my washing machine fix (Beko carbon brushes) the Indesit IDV65 tumble dryer is struggling to turn (certainly on higher loads). I've actually just changed the heating element and thermostat as the old one was on the way out, but conscious that since I swapped this last...

Hi folks. My son's keyboard on his Dell E6330 Latitude became damaged over time. The keys were actually ok but the metal brackets underneath (on the board itself) had broken so there was no way of attaching the keys back on. With this in mind I purchased a replacement keyboard. Had to attach...

Hi all, Our washing machine stopped running through the programmes recently. It would turn on, run through the entirety of the programme time but the drum cycle would not kick in. After a bit of research I figured it could be the carbon brushes which were low. After taking them out at least...

Hi all. I'm attempting to replace a belt in my Indesit IDV65 tumble dryer (and also the bearing - possibly related to the belt snapping as I replaced the original bearing a year or so ago). I've taken it apart to double check it was the belt (it was - snapped) but also for a trial run so when I...

I recently laid an engineered oak floor in the downstairs rooms (hall and dining/living rooms). I have a couple of sections where I need to place oak beading down (over expansion gaps). These are areas where skirting (which I'll later add in other parts of the room) such as under french doors...

Hi all. I'm currently in the process of building another wardrobe (I've recently built a cloak cupboard downstairs and managed to somehow pull off a decent job of it)! This time it's my daughter's bedroom wardrobe which will sit atop a boxed section (where the stairs below are). I've framed out...

Hi all. I want to build a couple of wooden dining benches for our table. Space wise, benches will look a lot neater and fit a few more bums on seats (kids at least!). I was thinking of either using old scaffold boards (cleaned and sanded), or (more likely) bringing in some oak planks (cut to...

Hi all. I built this stud fireplace last year with a combination of stud work (various sizes of wood - it's absolutely solid - and plasterboard), and then had it plastered before painting it up. Had the choice of either keeping it as it is, wallpapering it or adding stone tiles to it. The last...

Hi folks. Just a quicky hopefully. I've ordered a Texecom RS232 PC-COM cable to link my laptop (running Wintex) to my Texecom Premier Elite 24 panel (I have a bit of a mammoth thread on that subject). This cable has a 9 pin female end (the laptop end) but the port on the laptop (in fact...

Hi folks - never realised this forum had an audio visual section :oops: Just in the [long] process of dropping all my cabling around the house. I've laid all my Co Ax cable last week and had Quattro LNB fitted to the sat dish which then connects to Triax 5 in 12 out multi amp/switch. I had...

Hi. I've just purchased a Texecom Premier 24 burglar alarm after a good trawl through these boards and on the recommendation of a sparky mate (who unfortunately lives 60 odd miles away...and I've picked his brains far too much of late!). This will be the first alarm we, as a family, have...

Hi all, I was seriously contemplating taking down a chimney from loft downwards. As space is a little tight in the dining room (doubles up as 2nd living room/guest room) I wanted to add TV to breast wall (sunk in) which would mean building a stud out of the existing breast. Doing this...

I'm currently fitting new windowboards around the house (slowly but surely). After a fair bit of help and research I chose a method and set to task. The old boards had been covered in UPVC, which in itself looked a bit of a rushed job. Unfortunately, the wood boards underneath were damaged...

Hi, I've had a great deal of helpful advice on replacing some old window boards in my house. Not at all straightforwrd (not that I expect anything to run smoothly!) but I've found a method I'm going to use. The section I'm little unsure on is the bay window boards (the others are just...

Hi all, Currently going through a bit of a refurb and employing a few techniques designs I've never before attempted. A couple of these are drop down ceilings/floating walls. There's a couple of pics below for another couple of types of design I want to create. One is the partial drop...

Hi, The mains went off this morning whilst my kids were having breakfast (and watching the tweenies). Thought one of the mcb's had tripped, but it turned out the RCD had switched off. Isolating the problem, it only affects the mains sockets - with the sockets mcb off, the RCD will happily...

Hi all. We've just had a good dozen trees removed by local tree surgeons to the side of the semi-detached house we've recently moved in to. The majority were to the size of the house (30 odd foot sycamore, ash) whilst 4/5 were at the back of the property. Behind the boundary fence is a...