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I don't turn on my boiler every day so I guess the water in it gets pretty cold. But when I want to take a shower it I have to run it for one hour. When I want to fill the bathtub I have to run it for a full three hours. Even if if run the boiler for 2.5 hours, the water turns cold before I can...

I rent an apartment and for the last year the boiler has worked fine. I used to have it set to heat the water every morning for an hour or sometimes 90 mins. As I live alone I only really use hot water for showers. But as electricity prices in the UK have doubled and I don't shower every day...

I would appreciate any advice on wiring a plug to a heater. I recently moved to a new apartment and removed a storage heater and an oil heater that were wired into the wall rather than plugged in. Both had three wires intersecting with three wires from the wall that I guess were related to the...

I just messed up and removed a storage heater from my living room wall and also disconnected the wires and only realised it’s more complicated than disconnecting regular wall heaters. So it would be helpful if someone could give some advice of the best way to un-fudge my situation. When I...

Some months ago I bought a Black + Decker 18 V cordless 2-Gear combi hammer drill from Amazon and some drill bits. At some point I was drilling holes in the wall with a stone drill bit and noticed that it was wobbling and making the holes bigger than the screw plugs even though the the drill...

I have an electric boiler and the control panel is the Horstmann Electronic 7 one you see in the screen shot. I have a few questions about it and the boiler. 1: When I use water at the sink etc, I can hear the water system at the boiler making noise which I guess is refilling the tank. but...

Ok this is a pretty basic DIY inquiry. I wasn't happy with the positioning of a shelf I put up so I took it down and drilled fixing holes a few inches to the right. I then removed the plugs in the old holes and bought a tube of Polycell 'Flexible Gap' Polyfilla. It says at the bottom 'For...

I have a fairly large two bedroom apartment that is only carpeted so no hard floor area. My Dyson V6 doesn't cut it and I'm sick of the battery running out halfway through vacuuming the place. So I want to get another Dyson under £300 and my priority is maximum dust extraction as I'm a bit...

I moved into this apartment some months ago and although the kitchen and bedroom windows have split secondary glazing that I can raise to open the windows, the living room has fixed top to bottom secondary glazing that can't be opened. However, it's getting a bit cold these days and I can see...