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My Indesit WIDL126 washing-machine has been making a helluva noise for months now. I managed to remove a large chunk of metal from between the inner and outer drums by pulling it through the hole for what I think is the the temperture sensor - a round plastic thing about 2cm across, held in...

Have moved into old flat, and light switches and sockets are all surface mounted boxes with lath and plaster walls. Not particularly minded to be replacing everything with flush, with all the hassle of cutting holes in lath and plaster (and ending up with a bunch of repairs). But will be...

Hi, I'm looking for a decorative MDF grille for the back of a cabinet. I can find any number of patterns and finishes online, but they are all 1830mm x 610mm sheets. The space I need filled is 1600mm x 1000mm, so I'd need to join two sheets to fit, which I don't imagine would be either easy...

Hi, I recently lifted carpet, and found the T+G floorboards below to be in good condition - flat, tight and even, with none of them ever having been lifted. So decided to sand them down (including the finish of old varnish) and re-varnish. They're not old - late 1960's I'd guess - but by no...

Kitchen refurb. Have added extra units, and managed to get a very good match for existing doors and handles. Unfortunately, the supplied top cupboard-cornice is square profile. I need cornice to match the existing. Does anyone recognise it, and where I might get 3m or so? Life's too short to...

Hi, what are the regulations (Scotland) for an electrical socket on a wall under a sink / close to sink drain and trap. I'm moving w/m and d/w to under worktop below sink (not under the bowl, obv!), and need to put power onto that wall (standard drywall). Cheers

Hey folks, I'm getting new kitchen worktops fitted - 38mm laminated chipboard, bullnose edge, the usual stuff. I've had to buy 3 x 3m lengths, when I really only need 6.4m. With the spare offcut, there has been a suggestion from Her Ladyship that "we" make the vertical end of the unit from...

While dealing with this mess... //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155736 ... I have found copper pipes with pinhole leaks. About 4m of 28mm piping (probably late 1960's) with several drips. This is cold feed to upstairs, and only on horizontal run between ceiling and...

Not my DIY disaster, but one that I inherited when I bought this place. Have been troubled by water coming in through kitchen ceiling for a while now. Strangely intermittent - not more frequent during heavy rain, but a few days prolonged light rain brings it in. Anyway, kitchen has a large...

Hi, recently purchased Megaman Dimmer-able CFL's - nice. However, the stated dimming range (10% - 100%) is not achievable on the standard dimmer I have. The instructions say you can get a type of dimmer that you can calibrate to achieve the full range. This has an additional pot (turned by...

I'm refitting a small room as home office. I want to have a full-width (wall-to-wall) desk under a window along the short wall. Span is 2700mm. Supports along edges and back wall would be screwed into studs. I'm looking at using a 27mm x 720mm length of hardwood kitchen worktop - beech, with...

OK, the boys have been and laid Karndean type vinyl flooring in the hosue, and very nice it looks too. Now I need your top tip for getting the dishwasher, fridge and (heavy) washing machine slid into their under-counter slots in the kitchen, without scratching the new floor. Cheers folks.

Hi all, suppose I wanted to move BT master socket during a house renovation. If I chased the old, yellowed phone cable into the wall, and plastered over, it would be much, much neater. But if I were to do this, and ended up with a pronounced crackle on the line, might it be the case that a...

I'm fitting a cistern just now, and I simply cannot get the ******* union to be watertight. Cisten bottom-fill is a plastic 1/2" male thread, and I'm screwing on a 90 deg. female 1/2" elbow. Plastic is definately not cross-threaded. Do I just wind on more and more ptfe? How many turns is "too...

All the internal doors in our house swing open, and I mean *really* swing open - up to 140 degrees in some cases! I wouldn't mind if they swung shut, but not open. How easy is it, and what needs done to refit them so they don't swing? My alternative approach is to smack the hinges with a...

1/2", 15mm etc. etc. - what do they all refer to? I have a new toilet cistern, with male plastic threaded fill inlet. The nut from a 15mm compression fitting screws on neatly. But it's obviously not a 15mm compression fitting, as standard 15mm pipe is too big to fit the inlet. Is it 1/2" female...

I'm putting in AquaLoc laminate floor in new bathroom. Shower tray is 1200x800 cast stone, with bow-front; a nice parabolic front, in a recess. Tray weighs a flippin' ton. Existing floorboards are sound and level. Do I lay the laminate under the front edge of the tray, and seal round? This...

I'm currently fitting a new shower in a 1200x800 recess. I've mounted the concealed mixer on a noggin on one of the short walls, and run a braided flexihose from the outlet, round the corner, to a central point on the long wall, where the sprayhead and rail will be. I'm currently sheeting up the...

I'm currently fitting a new shower in a 1200x800 recess. I've mounted the concealed mixer on a noggin on one of the short walls, and run a braided flexihose from the outlet, round the corner, to a central point on the long wall, where the sprayhead and rail will be. I'm currently sheeting up the...

Currently doing a bathroom. Looking to tile right down to floor level. New laminate floor going in. What's the best way to tile down to floor level, and finish the wee gap where tiles meet laminate, given that floor needs to be "held down" at edges? Looking for as neat and clean meeting of the...