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Hi, I hope someone can give us some advice.... We have a conifer hedge that acts as a great barrier along our back garden onto the road - the problem is that my kids get itchy and a rash from this everytime they go in the garden (especially when they kick the football in it and have to delve...

Hi - I hope someone can help... we have a long fence in our garden and several panels are covered in what appears to be a layer of green moss (there is no pattern as to which panel gets it so I have no idea why it appears where it does). We want to re-stain the panels as they look a right...

We are looking to replace our fireplace with a new one (wood or marble surround, gas fire etc) but we don't want to spend much as we will be moving in about a year. Can anyone reccommend a good place (either on the web or physical shop in the hampshire/surrey area) that is relatively cheap yet...

I hope someone can help explain what is going on here.... I am trying to put a new light fitting up in our bedroom, and so took the old one down expecting to find two pairs of wires (each with live, neutral and earth) but what I have actually connected to the old fitting was four sets of wires...

I hope someone can help.... We have a fence and we want to grow a large bush/shrub/tree by it to act as screening - we have a choice of laurel, holly or photinia red robin - does anyone know which of these will grow the fastest ? Basically we want to get to about 10-12 feet in as short a...

Can anyone give some advice on quick growing trees.... Basically we have a gap along our wall of about 3 metres wide and we want to plant a tree that will grow quickly to fill this and will go to about 4-5m high. We would prefer to buy something that is already about 2.5-3m high. We...

We had a new boiler (Potterton Suprima HE) fitted about 6 weeks ago, and the whole system was powerflushed and had inhibitor added and TRV's fitted etc. When the powerflush was done the water initially came out fairly dirty, but after a couple of hours was flowing clean. (we also have microbore...

Ok, here comes a really basic (ie dumb) question.... ! I think that the thermostat on our hot water tank has gone, as the water is getting scalding hot even when it is turned down low, and no matter what temeperature I select on the thermostat the water temp does not change. It is a Honeywell...

We have just noticed that some of our rads are coming on with the hot water. We have a heated towel rail in the main bathroom that comes on when the hot water is on, and have also noticed that the towel rail in the en-suite comes on with the hot water and the radiators in two bedrooms also comes...

Hi, I know this is a "how long is a piece of string" type question, but I hope someone can offer some advice. We are looking to purchase an American style fridge freezer but dont know if any are more reliable than others. In the past we have had seperate fridges and freezers from Bosch...

i'm just applying a primer coat to recently skimmed walls. Should the walls look patchy when the paint is on ? I know the idea is that it soaks in a bit, but i was expecting them to have an even finish. I'm using a cheap emulsion for the primer from B&Q and have thinned it down by about 40%...

we have noticed that our rad valve has started leaking, where the inlet pipe (microbore 8mm) goes into the valve. This has obviously started a while ago as the water has been going along the pipe and into the wall, so the plaster is all wet. We have tightened the nut on the valve as much as...

Hi, we have had some quotes for a new boiler and system, and the quotes we have had have varied (no spuprsie there !). However, a couple were in the similar ball park. Could someone please let me know if the following cost sounds about right for this work (we have 13 rads, two towel rails, and...

Hi, I hope someone can offer some help ! We recently moved into a house where the kitchen adjoins the garage (the garage goes out further into the back past the outside wall of the kitchen) and the previous owner had moved the washing machine into the garage. The waste from the sink and...

We have just stripped the wallpaper off a bedroom and it took off a lot of the paint that was underneath which in turn took off the (very thin coating of) plaster. We have sanded the walls down to get rid of as much of the flakiness as possible. We now intend to put lining paper up, with the...

We have just had all new double glazed windows fitted but have noticed that when the sun is on them there appears to be dirt inside. It looks like a blue-ish haze (so looks like they haven't been cleaned) but we have been told by the company that fitted them that this is actually due to them...

I'm currently stripping some old wallpaper off my sons bedroom wall, and as I am getting the paper off it is exposing the old painted wall underneath. The paint is very flaky, and about half is staying on the wall and half coming off with the paper. However, in the areas where the paint is...

Hi We are about to get a new condesing boiler, and was looking for some advice on what make to get. Some plumbers have reccommended Poterton/Baxi, others have said to stay away from them and go for Worcester....... can anyone give me some good impartial advice on which is best (and why) ...

Hi Be warned - very dumb question coming up !! I am about to put TRV's on my microbore system, but looking at some posts here I am confused. What are "Double entry" valves and what are "seperate inlet -outlet" valves ? Our rads have one feed on either side of the rad, so I guess...

Hi I am looking to drain my microbore heating system as I want to put TRV's on the rads (there are none on at all and some of the current valves are broken anyway). On my old system at my previous house there was a small "tap" downstairs that I connected a hose to to drain the system, but I...